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Apparently the final auditions for the new James Bond are this weekend. I don't know any of the actors named. They are going to be tested for stunts, dialogue, and charisma.
About charisma, I would like to strongly suggest to the producers and director to give the actors a sense of humour test. James Bond is supposed to be smart, quick-thinking, elegant, unflappable, absurdly athletic, able to fit into any situation seamlessly, and be attractive to women.
James Bond movies totally lost me when they put Daniel Craig in the role. Either the scripts lacked witty dialogue or the actor was deadly serious all the time. Or both. But Daniel never even cracked a smile.
And no sense of humour=no sex appeal.
I have never seen a James Bond movie. I know what kind of movies they are and I know who plays James Bond. That's it. I'm not interested beyond that, but now that you've brought it up, I want to see who the finalists for the role are. I found Jack Lowden, Callum Turner, and Josh O'Connor. I know who O'Connor is because he was on The Durrels in Corfu, which I loved, and he was on two seasons of The Crown as Prince Charles and was pretty good. I have no idea if he's James Bond material.
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I did see The Crown a few years ago and I must have seen O'Connor in it. So he can act. Probably all of them can act. The early Bond movies were great fun, satirizing the spy genre, and had witty scripts.
DeleteI'm a huge James Bond fan and have been watching the movies since they came out. I don't know any of these actors mentioned, and when they showed their images on TV, NONE of them seemed suitable to me. I loved Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and yes, Daniel Craig (but not at first - he had to win me over). HATED Roger Moore, and the silliness that permeated his Bond movies!
ReplyDeleteHappy to discover there are a few others who never saw (or wanted to see) a James Bond movie. Somehow this cartoonish secret agent character holds little appeal. Some of the actors who played him went on to make movies I like a lot, depicting interesting three-dimensional characters.
ReplyDeleteThe early James Bond movies were fun and full of action. But they were never meant to be realistic spy movies. James Bond is a superhero, zero-dimensional. :-)
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