One of my favorite Bond actors, after Connery gotten a surprise phone call from the head of the studio owning the franchise saying that his services will no longer be required to play everyone's favorite spy.
Story here has him reeling in shock at first then a quiet calm at the realization that he was released from an obligation. He's now free to pursue different roles and to shake off the image.
To date I think Connery (who did six Bond films) managed to do this very well. He starred/played in 24 films to date after his last (Never Say Never Again), won an oscar as well. Connery once said
Another one of my favorites..
Now it's back to a guessing game of who's the next Bond...Snip from the story here
Story here has him reeling in shock at first then a quiet calm at the realization that he was released from an obligation. He's now free to pursue different roles and to shake off the image.
To date I think Connery (who did six Bond films) managed to do this very well. He starred/played in 24 films to date after his last (Never Say Never Again), won an oscar as well. Connery once said
Roger Moore (who did seven films under the name Bond) actually never took off with his film career after his last Bond film (A View To A Kill), taking flops or secondary, lack-luster films. The only hit he achieved (post-Bond) was Cannonball Run....in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again, he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain... the instructor was Steven Seagal.
Another one of my favorites..
Timothy Dalton his first film in the role, The Living Daylights (1987) did reasonably well at the box-office, Licence to Kill (1989) suffered from a lack of marketing which appeared to harm its chances of big box-office success. However, Dalton's interpretation of Bond in Licence to Kill received critical acclaim in some quarters as being the closest interpretation to Fleming's literary Bond.
Now it's back to a guessing game of who's the next Bond...Snip from the story here
Among the favourites to take over the coveted role are Scottish actor Dougray Scott, Oscar nominee Clive Owen and Australian star Hugh Jackman.