It’s been reported (although one has to take these things with several grains of salt) that Mel Gibson, Hugh Grant, and Liam Neeson were all offered the role by Broccoli and passed.

The Berlin Wall had come down, the Cold War had ended, and the once-fearsome Soviet Union was now an ally of the West. Janssen, despite all of her carnal thrashing and bashing, is sunk by her silly Boris and Natasha-meets-Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia accent. The Bond films, which had always trafficked in the tension between the East and the West, now had to change too. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

While Sherwood is a fan of the older James Bond films – her grandad, the actor George Baker had roles in You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me – she doesn’t think Bond should stay stuck in the past.

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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The pens get destroyed (as do all pens for boys of a certain disposition), or discarded as students upgrade to Lamy Safari knockoffs, which in turn get dumped for real Lamy Safaris. Moore was 57 and getting a little jowly and long in the tooth to convincingly play the world’s deadliest (and horniest) superspy. It’s the modern spy movie equivalent of “The Last Jedi,” as the universe tells James Bond that he has no choice but to let the past die —to kill it if he has to — and dares Craig to pull the trigger.

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