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Jimmy Smits always seem to deliver what is required for a role. Good suggestion!
A very scary one, as well! He doesn't even need to alter his looks to look menacing in a role.
-Jeremy Irons (I've always thought he would make a great Blofeld)
-Charlotte Rampling (made for Bond)
-Ciaran Hinds (if they decided to bring in a Russian connection, he would be great, having played such in both The Sum of All Fears and Sparrow)
-Matthias Schoenaerts - extremely charismatic and coolly enigmatic, while looking a little like a young Putin
At 1.90 he would have been a more imposing Kronsteen type.
They can't go for the "big reveal" of him being a bad guy in the middle of the movie, that's for sure. Needs to be presented as a villain from the first scene he plays, if so.
Yep; but only if the writing is good and that's the fundimentally biggest creative problem Bond has right now.
Boyle doesn't seem to have as stable a rotation of actors as some other directors, but he has worked with him on three projects. The only actors he's worked with more, it seems, are Ewan McGregor (who's not an obvious choice by any means) and Robert Carlyle (who I'd normally see as more fitting than either of the others, but he's done it once; though it is a new continuity so maybe for the right role...)
He wouldn't be my first choice but seems like an accomplished enough actor.
I wonder if they will go this route or instead shoot for someone more famous. The last two have been Oscar winners.
The Craig films haven't really had a 'great' villain you could look back on.
For me,Le Chiffre is the best,followed by Greene.
I'm personally in favor of casting lesser known actors as villains but I understand it's going slightly against a trend. But he's not a complete unknown and has been in many high profile productions.
What I think could be playing against is his nationality: since CR they haven't had British villains except in secondary roles (Denbigh for instance). Not that I mind as British badguys or British actors playing badguys is a tiresome cliche and I love foreign villains in a Bond movie, but in any case Eccleston would be going against this trend too.
Just looking at photos online, I see him as more of a section chief or facilator/ally rather than a chief villain.
There is something dark and scary about Ecclestone IMHO, bring it on.
I'd easily see him as a brutish Grant or a vulgar Drax. Bond novels have their share of thuggish villains.
Oscar Isaac is an actor I really want to see in a Bond film. That image above makes him look something like a «Blofeld meets Assange» type of character, or something. A techy Blofeld!
Would imagine he could play a very intense villain. That's always welcome.