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Is he the same guy who played in that awful adaptation in 2009?
If there's a mark against him, he hasn't been in enough big budget productions to carry a huge franchise like Bond.
Definitely worth a screentest though
Bland? Have you seen Sutter act in Vikings? Get real. Sutter must be screentested, I'd wager he's pitch perfect.
I don't think Connery was well refined before 1962 either, but that didn't work out too badly in the end...
EON also met with Morten Tyldum (he was asked to read a script, if I remember correctly), but I can't remember if it was before the NTTD production, or the SP production.
Edit: It was way back in 2013, so before SP.
Character being white = puritanism?
yeesh, it's hard to keep up nowadays. (:|
If he can be blond he can be black or ginger.
Why is it only ok to deviate in one direction?
I really like his outfit, especially his boots. Anyone know what brand?
Sope has great style, it ends there basically.
I could see Leo Suter in the role no doubt. I could just as easily see Sope Dirisu in the role. Just as I could see Aidan Turner, Tom Hughes or just about anyone else.
You have to admit that the entertainers of the (recent) past had more personality than their contemporary counterparts.
Probably just predictive text and they meant 'purist', ie. Fleming's literary Bond. I hope so, anyway - a Puritan Bond would be a hell of a stretch, even in terms of 'reinvention'!
My bad lol. I meant purism of course.
Still waiting for a response.
Most POC don't suit the role either.
The point is that some do, not that all do.
The issue will always be, that the actor playing Bond should inhabit some of the traits we expect from the character. But at the end of the day, the part should go to the best candidate for the job.
Connery and Lazenby had dark eyes, and Moore and Craig had lighter hair, but they all still could pass off as the Fleming Bond from the novels, because they weren't that far off the literary description overall.
I'm sure with the billions of people on planet earth, they can find one suitable candidate that ticks all the attributes for what is required, including the exact literary description too, but I'm guessing Bond being played by a white actor may upset some people out there.
And for those people who would be upset by such a casting, I will have a quiet chuckle to myself.... ;))
Neither had Forster and Fukunaga.
From what I've seen of Mackenzies films, I think his directing style could fit with Bond.
In other news, Richard Madden stars in a new spy series for Amazon:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/awards-insider-citadel-first-look
Somehow I suspect Richard Madden will be the new Clive Owen or Michael Fassbender: many people on social media will see him as Bond, but he won't get the role.
I can live with that.
I don't actually mind Richard Madden, and he could be a good pick for Bond. But somehow, I just feel we could do better.
Agreed. Much better actually.
In terms of acting ability not really, quite the opposite.
He's alright.
He is a class act.
Fukunaga had done True Detective and Maniac before Bond.
I have the same feeling about him. He would be an OK choice. Fairly competent actor, not too famous, juuust the right age now. And Scottish. But in the end, I think him being Scottish might be his biggest selling point and that's not much.
If that's the logic, then Angelina Jolie should have been Bond instead of Daniel Craig.
Madden played a part in that film, as actors do. His Bond wouldn't be comparing himself to real man hero Felix Leiter. He'd be doing his job as an actor and making Bond the alpha.