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Many of the male actors took care of business but the actresses is where the casting and talent falls short.
i agree with you. Without the look and voice of Pleasance you wouldnt have the iconic look of Blofeld for later films.
I always thought he worked well. I cant believe someone upthread suggested Michael Lonsdale. He is one of the joys of MR.
"Look after Mr Bond...seee that some harm comes to him"
In terms of "bad actor" choices Joe Don Baker comes to mind. He was great in GE but somewhat miscast in TLD.
-Having re-watched TND yesterday Teri Hatcher also makes the list
-Denise Richards is a given but at least she's funny and reasonably attractive to look at. The same goes for Brit Ekland.
-Jonathan Pryce is a great actor and a reasonable choice for a brainy Bond villain, however he's somewhat misused/underused in TND. Nonetheless I do find him enjoyable ("tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we'll release the video of him with a cheerleader in a Chicago motel room"..."and then after he signs the bill release the tape anyway").
Never noticed that. It is well known that DP had the famous scar added as an afterthought as he wasn't the most menacing of figures.
Slightly off topic I found out yesterday that a friend (a non Bond fan) who works at Heathrow Airport chatted to an "old geeza" called Lewis Gilbert :-w
He was apparently talking about Sir Christopher Lee
Bellucci wasn't the problem; she herself was fine. The writing and directing is what sucked.
I don't think Roberts is to blame for the way her character was written.
Agree, in the Cubby era, they prioritised looks over talent. The book 'Some kind of hero' has some interesting info regarding casting choices.
Eg Denise Richards gets a lot of flak but people even on this forum are obsessed with her looks and that's what sold tickets for the general public
The only other such miscast incident is probably awful Lexenberg in BvS.
While I love to look at Denise Richards in TWINE, the movie suffers greatly because of her. She is just wrong. She doesn't destroy her scenes and she isn't overacting them, she simply doesn't act at all.
Teri Hatcher, in the few scenes she has she manages to be just annoying and seeing her dead on the bed makes me cheer up every time. Good old Dr. Kaufmann made sure she wouldn't bother us any more than she already did in TND. Luckily TND doesn't suffer because of her, she is just a pesky little fly that is squashed at the right time.
And that's already it.
It seems as long as Cubby was around, all casting decisions were based on reason.
hahaha perfect assessment BJB006.....just spot on.
I don't believe so. Some leading lady choices in the Cubby era were based purely on looks and they deliberately overlooked actresses who could act (see 'Some Kind of Hero'). Possibly also proper actresses would demand more money as well
Joseph was the Voice of Blofeld in Thunderball?
How couldn't I recognize him ? Especially him making my favorite villain of the Sean Connery era as Dr No.
I loved his take on Dr No, his dinner scene with Bond is one of the best meetings ever between the villain and Bond.
Very polite but at the same time challenging Bond.
But this thread is about the worst and for me the worst was Jane Seymour in Luve and let die.
=D>
Well I knew you'd agree with that one, Wiz! :D
That's an important distinction. I think Denise Richards is a great example here - terrible line delivery, yes. But everything about the film - the script, the blocking, the camera angles, the costumes - suggest that really her entire role is to be a pair of breasts on legs. Seriously.
And on that front, I suppose she succeeds.
The problem is some mistake nostalgia for quality and as bad as some of the things about this current era there are moments in Connery's definitely Moore's and even Dalton's that are as terrible as what Brosnan and Craig have had.
Bar of course ring scanning and step brother gate.
Bardem as miscasting??? Just goes to show how some of us see completely different things while watching these films, anyway I digress.
Johnathan Pryce definitely springs to mind, when he's on form he's a terrific actor see him in GOT for the most recent example of that but here he's bloody awful.
Eliott Carver up there with the worst, that annoying way he exhales and the bit when he tries embarass Yeoh's character is risible.
It's on a par with his awful efforts in Ronin and that Northern Irish accent is on a par with Brad Pitt's in The Devils Own.
Waltz is undoubtedly for me one of the worst because it's the potential that is totally wasted, we aren't talking some villains lackey here we are Ernst "Bloody" Stavro Blofeld.
He just seems not to care or that is way it comes across, Logan definitely gave Bardem more memorable dialogue to spout.
Maybe Waltz realised how bad the script was and just thought I'll slum this one, "I'm used to QT level dialoge but not even I'm going to save this train wreck" Maybe they should have got Tarantino to write Oberhausers lines then maybe Christoph might have shown some enthusiasum for the part.
Anyway onto my one character the series regularly miscast or just couldn't be arsed with it be it the writing or an actor totally unappropiate for the role, Felix Leiter
Cec Linder & Norman Burton Truly awful Leiter's Bond lackeys, Linder is truly dull and doesn't strike you as being a CIA agent one bit and Burton is just comic relief and an embarassment.
Hedison is OK in LALD better in LTK Though John "Just what the hell are you trying to do, 007? Start World War III" Terry takes some beating.
Also Rick Van Nutter (see Cec Linder) even Jack Lord, looked great but was in no time treating Bond with awe.
The only actor that has delivered as Leiter in making him a believable and credible is Jeffrey Wright
It's just such a shame that Wright has been underused because he's only actor that you feel could be on the same level as Bond, he exudes an intelligence and a sly wit, also doesn't look at Bond with awe one bit.
It seems he'll likely not return to the role, shame, hopefully when recast someone else will bring the same quality to the role.
Most of the supporting cast in Florida in LTK as well. Just awful.
I've felt somewhat mixed on D'abo too lately. I know that she's a fan favourite but her performance does seem a tad overdone at times to me.
She's still a much more convincing Bond girl than her immediate predecessor though.