Salmon's Bond Bitterness
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Colin Salmon, who played M's aide Charles Robinson in two of the Brosnan films, is furious at being "snubbed" for the role of James Bond!
Salmon won't even get the chance to reprise his role as Robinson in "Casino Royale", and he is bitter former co-star Dame Judi Dench got to keep her part playing MI6 boss M.
He says, "It makes no sense. They've got rid of Q, Miss Moneypenny yet they keep Dench in it. It's confusing."
However, a spokeswoman for Bond production company EON denies racism: "I think it's a rather below the belt allegation and I can't believe Colin has suggested it.
Now he has point, its stupid having a 72 year old woman as M on Bond's "first mission", when she played opposite Brosnan for years.
However it is ludicrous to think Salmon would have ever got the roll. Brosnan (who has dropped dramatically in my estimation since his departure due to his constant bitching) made a glib remark that Salmon should replace him. Nothing more than a light-hearted quip. Salmon took it seriously.
When I looked at the only other forum topic on Salmon as Bond, there was one thing no one dared to metion. He is black. End of story. James Bond isn't black ergo a black actor can't play him.
But check this out. Either the bosses at EON at being polite or are insane, "Since it wasn't impossible for there to be a blond Bond, then it's not impossible for there to be a black Bond." said a EON spokesperson.
Are they seriously saying there could be a black James Bond one day?? Whats next? Chris Rock is Captain Kirk in Star Trek 11!! Jamie Foxx as Superman!!
Is everyone so afraid of not being politically correct and racially senstive that no one has the balls to point out how ridiculous this is getting?
Salmon won't even get the chance to reprise his role as Robinson in "Casino Royale", and he is bitter former co-star Dame Judi Dench got to keep her part playing MI6 boss M.
He says, "It makes no sense. They've got rid of Q, Miss Moneypenny yet they keep Dench in it. It's confusing."
However, a spokeswoman for Bond production company EON denies racism: "I think it's a rather below the belt allegation and I can't believe Colin has suggested it.
Now he has point, its stupid having a 72 year old woman as M on Bond's "first mission", when she played opposite Brosnan for years.
However it is ludicrous to think Salmon would have ever got the roll. Brosnan (who has dropped dramatically in my estimation since his departure due to his constant bitching) made a glib remark that Salmon should replace him. Nothing more than a light-hearted quip. Salmon took it seriously.
When I looked at the only other forum topic on Salmon as Bond, there was one thing no one dared to metion. He is black. End of story. James Bond isn't black ergo a black actor can't play him.
But check this out. Either the bosses at EON at being polite or are insane, "Since it wasn't impossible for there to be a blond Bond, then it's not impossible for there to be a black Bond." said a EON spokesperson.
Are they seriously saying there could be a black James Bond one day?? Whats next? Chris Rock is Captain Kirk in Star Trek 11!! Jamie Foxx as Superman!!
Is everyone so afraid of not being politically correct and racially senstive that no one has the balls to point out how ridiculous this is getting?
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I was thinking just the other day how Woody Allen would make an awesome Shaft! I mean Woody already loves filming in New York.
Can you imagine the action scenes for that?
I really can't slam Salmon because I don't know what has been taken out of context to what he may or may not have said. I would like to think that he's a lot classier than the jilted cheerleader the media is having us believe that he's acting like...
Oh, and darenhat, I think the sarcasm would've rimshot better had you cast Clooney as an against-type fictional character instead of an actual person.
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I wouldn't want him anywhere near Bond; not least because he's a dreadful actor with a terrible delivery and is very much balding right now. Bargain basement Bond.
What's the difference between that and M and Leiter meeting Bond for the first time when they've already met him for the first time in other films (Goldeneye and Dr. No) after he was an established agent? We're already dealing with an entirely different timeline so the fact that he played Robinson before just doesn't matter. The series has been rebooted. Sure, I'd find it confusing but other things I find confusing about this Bond 2.0 I've been told to get over, so what's the difference?
As for Salmon, I think he's very sexy and talented and have since I first saw him in Prime Suspect 2. He's right, a black actor coudn't be Bond now because just look at the hubbub about Bond being blonde. There's nothing outrageous or playing the race card about that statement. It's the truth. EON's spokespeople saying it's below the belt etc is nonsensical. But then that's par for the course for them.
MBE
Cracked me up.
No actor should be so presumptuous as to to think they are owed a job---particularly such a coveted role as 007; my brother is a working SAG member in LA, and he recently lost a guest role on "24" simply because he's too tall to be in a two-shot with Kiefer Sutherland X-(
It's a jungle out there; the business isn't 'fair,' and nothing is guaranteed...just ask the last Bond...
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Leave it to me, Eye my friend...but this is just My Ridiculous Opinion
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Exactly. If the Bond actors position isn't secure, nobodies is. Robinson was always a superfluous character. He just made up the numbers.
As for Salmon, I agree with Hardy that it would be silly to have an actor who has played a specific certain role 3 times before to suddenly appear as Bond. It just wouldn't work.
As for Salmons suitability anyway, I saw him over several weeks in the dreadful ( but very watchable) 'Bad Girls' recently and he was awful.
He totally confirmed to me that he cant act for toffee and he seems to have turned a corner in the looks department too. He could no more hold a lead role of Bonds magnitude than I could !
Salmon, the Bond series can live without.
'Lifelessly'??
My name has suffered numerous abuses over the course of my life, as I'm sure you can imagine, but this is a first...
Are you trying to tell me something, Rose? ?:)
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Spell checkers have a lot to answer for! ;%
Actually, I once received a call from a telemarketer, who asked, "May I speak to Mister Leo-Phallus?"
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Dare I ask what she was selling?
@merseytart
I never found out, as I was still laughing when I hung up on her...
I keep a collection of the various misspellings and mispronunciations of my name; it's endlessly entertaining...
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Is that any more confusing than the other actors who changed roles within the series? Maud Adams, Robert Brown, and Joe Don Baker all had major role changes within the Bond series without much confusion. The only difference here is that Judi Dench is playing the same character, but in a new timeline. So what if the same actress who played the second M in the previous series is playing first M in the second series? (When I say "second M", I am assuming that Bernard Lee and Robert Brown were both portaying the same man, as I am certain we are supposed to believe).
I don't understand the timeline confusion. There is no longer a previous timeline. Think of CR as Bond 1. Bond has a female boss. He has just earned his 00 rank. Bond has neither met nor married Tracy yet. Moneypenny has not been hired as M's secretary yet, or at least not that we know of. Q-Branch may exist, but neither it nor Q will be introduced in this film.
I have a feeling that before long, we will have a new M (probably male), and Ms. Moneypenny and Q will be introduced to the "new" Bond series as new characters, hopefully without as much of the silly "comic relief" they provided in the previous "timeline".
some people just don´t understand, that Ian Fleming´s Bond is white, not black
there is no racism in it, this is just fact
I'm hoping the rumor that Dame Edna playing Batman is true!
My Grandmother is still upset over losing the role of Spiderman to Tobey Maguire, she was so close...
I'm thinking Clay Aiken for the theme song.
Right on!
Flemings always on about Bonds tan
maybe Bond was black, and Fleming was just assuming he was a heavily tanned white man