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A new\u00a0James Bond\u00a0is on the way following\u00a0Daniel Craig\u2019s exit in \u201cNo Time to Die.\u201d<\/p>\n
While rumours circulated last year that a younger actor was being courted and that the age of 007 would decrease considerably from Craig\u2019s era, such claims\u00a0were squashed by franchise producer\u00a0Michael G. Wilson.<\/p>\n
He assured fans the new Bond would be a \u201cthirty-something\u201d actor, keeping with Craig\u2019s age range when he started his run as 007 in 2006\u2019s \u201cCasino Royale.\u201d<\/p>\n
In\u00a0a new interview with Radio Times, longtime James Bond casting director Debbie McWilliams explained why younger actors usually don\u2019t fit when it comes to finding a new James Bond.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we started, it was a slightly different feel,\u201d McWilliams said about the last search for a new 007 that ended with Craig\u2019s selection.\u00a0\u201cWe did look at a lot of younger actors, and I just don\u2019t think they had the gravitas. They didn\u2019t have the experience, they didn\u2019t have the mental capacity to take it on, because it\u2019s not just the part they\u2019re taking on, it\u2019s a massive responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
McWilliams added, \u201cSo we kind of scrubbed that idea and went back to the drawing board and started again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team settled on Craig, who was in his 30s at the time. The decision did not receive unanimous praise. As McWilliams told\u00a0Entertainment Weekly\u00a0back in 2021, she \u201cfelt sorry\u201d for Craig after his casting led to extreme blowback from press who thought Craig didn\u2019t fit the part of Bond.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unbelievably negative, I have to say,\u201d McWilliams said about the reaction to Craig\u2019s casting. \u201cThe press response was awful and I felt so sorry for him, but in a funny kind of a way I think it almost spurred him on to do his damndest to prove everybody wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole way through the film, stuff would come out about [how] he couldn\u2019t walk and talk, he couldn\u2019t run, he couldn\u2019t drive a car properly, so much stuff which was completely and utterly untrue,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd he just kept his head down, got on with the job and then the film came out and everybody went, \u2018Oh wow, I think we quite like him after all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Craig went on to star in a total of five James Bond movies. The search for his replacement will begin at some point this year, producers Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have said repeatedly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people go, \u2018Oh, who are you going to get?\u2019 it\u2019s not just about casting an actor for a film,\u201d Broccoli\u00a0told\u00a0Variety<\/em>\u00a0last year. \u201cIt\u2019s about a reinvention, and \u2018Where are we taking it? What do we want to do with the character?\u2019 And then, once we figure that out, who\u2019s the right person for that particular reinvention?\u201d<\/p>\nIn\u00a0her Radio Times interview, McWilliams pointed out that most James Bond actors are relatively unknown on a mainstream film level when they are cast.<\/p>\n
\u201cTimothy Dalton was known, but he was known as a Shakespearean actor, really,\u201d McWilliams said. \u201cPierce [Brosnan] was known, but that was basically from television. Roger Moore was known from television. Sean Connery wasn\u2019t [known] \u2013 nobody had ever heard of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA certain audience had heard of Daniel Craig, but much more the kind of independent cinema audience. He hadn\u2019t done any huge commercial film at all, really \u2013 [2004 film] \u2018Layer Cake\u2019 I suppose was the most popular, should we say, of the things he had done prior to Bond, but he wasn\u2019t a hugely well-known actor.\u201d<\/p>\n
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