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Who should/could be a Bond actor?

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  • buddyoldchapbuddyoldchap Formerly known as JeremyBondon
    Posts: 224
    Those were all quite poor auditions. Glad Craig got the gig back then, even though I never liked him as Bond. Pierce nailed it however, regarding the lines. It's becoming more and more apparent Bond should be a 'young' 40 or so at the start of his tenure. Not going to mention him though.
  • DewiWynBondDewiWynBond
    Posts: 1,045
    Can't wait to deliver my lines.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,571
    I have never understood why they use scenes from old movies. What do they expect the actor to do?
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
    Posts: 2,645
    Watching them again, Worthington doesn't look prepared or bothered, but he does have that Craig edge to him the producers were clearly looking for.
    Cavill does a good Pierce impression but he is somewhat flat to me, he was young though.
    Friend was clearly prepared and he acts it quite well, but his voice is a touch soft and he maybe lacks charisma.
    Starr does quite well, he just seems to play it confidently, he's almost cocky. Watching it I find myself quoting Bond in NTTD, "he smiles too much".

    Credit to all of them though, it must be so tough to do and I think they did well. It just shows how brilliant Pierce was handling the gags.

    @Benny thanks mate, it's good to be back
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,249
    Anthony Starr did it better, I think. Cavill wasn't bad, though. I think Campbell must have known, but felt he could bring out something in him. The Bond role isn't easy though, it's not just delivering the lines, but how you deliver it to go with the facial expressions, gestures & posturing that counts.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
    Posts: 982
    I liked Worthington's intensity and lack of artifice. His lack of a British accent is an issue, and he messes up because, I think, he's very nervous. Though his performance has a lot of rough edges I think I might have liked him in the Bond role (if he could have given the same kind of performance with a convincing English accent).

    Starr, who I generally really like, gives my least favourite performance - as Jordo007 says, he's playing it cocky and I'm not so keen on that.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 12:38pm Posts: 4,521
    I think there’s some potential in all of these auditions. It’s less a case of finding which actor puts in the most polished performance but what natural qualities they’ll bring to Bond. It’s then a case of the producers deciding whether that approach will be the best pick for the new incarnation or not, and then whittling down the candidates.

    Personally, as weak as I think Cavill’s audition was here, I can see why they’d have considered him over, say, Friend at this stage. I’d say the latter’s the better performance, but it’s a very different interpretation of Bond - again more gentlemanly, softer spoken even. There’s something about Cavill even with his flatness and at times overdone ‘poker face’ that’s more fitting with the Bond of CR - that hint of arrogance/harder edge even. Obviously Craig did all this much better by the way.

    It’s like I always say - finding Bond isn’t about getting ‘the chosen one’ but picking from a pool options in tandem with what they want from the film itself.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,945
    Yeah I think Cavill is the only one playing a character who is recognisably James Bond there, albeit in a slightly flat way. As you say, Craig did it better.

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