Never thought we'd be talking baseball on a James Bond thread, must say.
Agreed. James Bond traipses all around the world except Antarctica, where scantily-clad women freeze all too quickly. Baseball, in comparison, is basically virile middle-class blokes running around in localized American squares for 150 minutes plus.*
(*Fast forward any BB game and it becomes painfully clear.)
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Are you saying it isn't cricket?
Given I find both sports incredibly tedious to watch, I'd say it's a wash. 
Antarctica is sorted in First Light
We almost got a cricket scene in Bond of course.
Have people seen this? The woman who cast Dalton, Brosnan and Craig weighs in and says Turner and Elordi are too well known.
www.independent.co.uk
Have people seen this? The woman who cast Dalton, Brosnan and Craig weighs in and says Turner and Elordi are too well known.
I cast Bond films for 40 years. This is one essential trait the next 007 must have
Rev up the Aston Martin – the Bond auditions are finally happening. Debbie McWilliams, who shaped the 007 films for four decades, tells Ellie Harrison about how the biggest choice in Hollywood gets made, her role in this slice of cinematic history, and what the future could hold for the...
www.independent.co.uk
Have people seen this? The woman who cast Dalton, Brosnan and Craig weighs in and says Turner and Elordi are too well known.
I cast Bond films for 40 years. This is one essential trait the next 007 must have
Rev up the Aston Martin – the Bond auditions are finally happening. Debbie McWilliams, who shaped the 007 films for four decades, tells Ellie Harrison about how the biggest choice in Hollywood gets made, her role in this slice of cinematic history, and what the future could hold for the...
Obviously she has cast more Bonds than I have. But Brosnan was cast because he was well known. I'd imagine you could say the same for Moore.
Dalton and Craig were largely unknown, sure. And if they were known they weren't known for being "Bond-like". But the moment Brosnan showed up in a bow tie people started shouting "Bond"!
I'm not so sure any of them were "unknown" really. Except for Lazenby, they all did something previously. Heck, the "Danie Craig is Not Bond" aka Blonde Bond campaign was because DC was known from Layer Cake and judged purely on that performance.
Great interview and I hope Amazon are taking heedWe almost got a cricket scene in Bond of course.
Have people seen this? The woman who cast Dalton, Brosnan and Craig weighs in and says Turner and Elordi are too well known.
I cast Bond films for 40 years. This is one essential trait the next 007 must have
Rev up the Aston Martin – the Bond auditions are finally happening. Debbie McWilliams, who shaped the 007 films for four decades, tells Ellie Harrison about how the biggest choice in Hollywood gets made, her role in this slice of cinematic history, and what the future could hold for the...
Craig had done a lot more than Layer Cake. He's in an early Sharpe as a villain, and he was Paul Newman's violent and unhinged son in Road to Perdition. I'm not sure that I saw Layer Cake until after Craig was announced, but based on Perdition I thought he'd be fine as Bond.
Sure. But there's a big difference between "Not a movie star" and "Not very well known".
By that criteria Henry Winkler was not very well known.
And yes, Brosnan didn't really find success as a leading man until after he finally made it as Bond. Of course he also wasn't in any movies that were GOOD until he finally made it as Bond. He was this close to being Cary Elwes.
Layer Cake was repeatedly used as the basis for the argument against him being Bond back in the day. I remember it vividly.
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