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Which actor would make a good Bond villain?

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  • Since62Since62
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    With Idris Elba as a villain no one would pay attention to the Bond actor. The obvious question of how much better he'd be as Bond would be unavoidable. You shouldn't cast an actor for the villain, M, sidekick, etc. who would outshine the Bond actor.
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    Since62 wrote: »
    With Idris Elba as a villain no one would pay attention to the Bond actor. The obvious question of how much better he'd be as Bond would be unavoidable. You shouldn't cast an actor for the villain, M, sidekick, etc. who would outshine the Bond actor.

    To be fair you could say that Fiennes (who was considered for Bond at one point) is in that category. Same for Colin Salmon to some extent. Jack Lord as Leiter too.

    I think much of it is about how the actors play off each other, and of course the confidence of the Bond actor. But you can definitely have actors playing supporting roles who are larger than life. I think Elba as M or a villain would be fine.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
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    If we follow the tradition of Oscar winners...Cillian Murphy.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    007HallY wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    With Idris Elba as a villain no one would pay attention to the Bond actor. The obvious question of how much better he'd be as Bond would be unavoidable. You shouldn't cast an actor for the villain, M, sidekick, etc. who would outshine the Bond actor.

    To be fair you could say that Fiennes (who was considered for Bond at one point) is in that category. Same for Colin Salmon to some extent. Jack Lord as Leiter too.

    I think much of it is about how the actors play off each other, and of course the confidence of the Bond actor. But you can definitely have actors playing supporting roles who are larger than life. I think Elba as M or a villain would be fine.

    The other thing is that Idris Elba is way pass the age to play Bond, like Fiennes was when he got cast as M.
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