Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting | Sian Cain
“I’d like to kill him,” Sean Connery famously said of Bond, that “dull, prosaic English policeman”; it was Daniel Craig who finally managed to do it, a fifth film torturously pulled out of him because Barbara Broccoli agreed to knock him off.
Key points
- With the auditions for the next Bond under way, reports recently emerged that the official contenders were Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner and a mysterious fourth actor who no one seemed to know.
- Bond might never be an actor’s most interesting role, but it is always the one that leads the obit.
- As soon as his Bond took a missile to the bonce, Craig dived right into playing all the oddballs he could get, with Benoit Blanc as palate cleanser.
Hollywood’s weirdest man has entered the fray and the casting decision that has dragged on and on suddenly feels exciting for the first time Why does anyone want to play James Bond?
Additional details
- Both great actors, but one of them has made a casting decision that has dragged on, and on, and on, suddenly feel genuinely exciting for the first time.
- The franchise seems to spit out its leads, leaving them wrecked and disillusioned.
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