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Had this thread been around in the early 60s then it would've been shaped by John McLusky's six-days-a-week cartoon strip for the Daily Express newspaper. The cartoon strip was hugely popular and influential on the choice and public's perception of James Bond. For the record, McLusky based his looks on a cross between Fleming’s own sporting hero Henry Cotton and a young Robert Taylor, the Hollywood actor. Theatre lore has it that the idea was first broached when Connery was sitting in his dressing room with a fellow thespian who was reading the Daily Express. Spotting the remarkable resemblance between the cartoon character in the paper and the man sitting next to him, he said: “You should play the part of Bond.”
Spot on. Connery ticked all the right boxes in '62, which is why he became the firm favourite to be cast. Now that he's set the bar so high, it's up to every other actor that follows in his footsteps to try and reach the same high standard.
Haha.
I tend to think the physicality of literary Bond is a little overestimated. I never imagine Bond in the novels as being jacked in any way.
I actually think we haven’t, but it will be interesting to see!
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-movie-charlie-hunnam-casting-update-response/
lol yep, just saw The Gentlemen last night, liked it overall but Hunnam's performance was underwhelming for sure.
Yeah the bit that stuck out for me was when he goes to that tower block to retrieve someone's daughter, and he's supposed to be intimidating and tough towards this load of young druggies, but there's just nothing there - he can't do it.
I dunno, I thought he played it reasonably well. It wasn't meant to be 100% toughness, the character also clearly had OCD and was extremely uncomfortable being in there. But if people didn't pick up on that either, then that too is an indictment on his acting.
I actually liked that scene a lot. A lot of the early scenes with him and Grant is where he suffered the most I thought.
Good for him for making a fortune from a profession he lacks talent within. However, personally I wouldn’t want him ‘trying’ to be James Bond.
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I think i prefer Hunnam over Courtney.
I do too. He doesn't annoy me as much as Courtney does, but I think there's overlaps if we are talking about acting ability.
Maybe it takes these guys such a long time to travel from Australia that they book ahead in lots of films.
Indeed, and Dalton is a very good actor but he couldn't be a successful star of the Bond movies.