Pierce Brosnan has turn into the newest former 007 to offer his blessing to Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the position of the spy.
Brosnan, who performed the intelligence agent in GoldenEye, Tomorrow By no means Dies, The World Is Not Sufficient and Die One other Day, was talking on RTÉ Radio’s The Ray D’Arcy Present, and mentioned appearing alongside the youthful star in 2009 movie The Biggest, by which they performed father and son.
“He was the best in [The Greatest],” mentioned Brosnan. “So, sure, I learn the information about his prospects of being a Bond, so I might positively tip my hat to the man.
“I feel the person has the chops and the expertise and the charisma to play Bond, very a lot so.”
Jonathan Pryce, who performed the Bond villain reverse Brosnan in Tomorrow By no means Dies, has additionally endorsed Taylor-Johnson. Talking on Good Morning Britain final week, Pryce mentioned: “He’s grown into an exquisite actor and when he was somewhat youthful, he did this extraordinary type of motion movie the place he performed a superhero.
“And he’s nice, have a look at him now, he’s black tie, good-looking and yeah, he’d be an amazing Bond.”
In the meantime George Lazenby, who performed Bond in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, advised TMZ he believed Taylor-Johnson, “can deal with the stunts and all the women who love a person in a tux”.
The Australian actor added that on the time he understood Taylor-Johnson had not but been formally provided the position, provided that his personal expertise concerned a number of exams and auditions. He continued by saying he can be comfortable to help the youthful actor, supplied Taylor-Johnson might “do the character justice”.
Final week, Taylor-Johnson was tipped by the Solar newspaper to be a shoo-in for the position, with Eon productions having put in a proper provide, forward of a deliberate manufacturing begin on the twenty sixth Bond film later this 12 months.
However in an interview with GQ carried out earlier than the Solar’s report, Taylor-Johnson appeared to rule himself out of rivalry, saying: “I don’t really feel like I have to have a future drawn out for me. I really feel like, no matter’s drawn out for me, I can fucking do higher.”
He continued by saying that he “doesn’t essentially need … doing one motion film after one other” to be his “model”.
Taylor-Johnson’s attainable casting led to the hashtag #BoycottJamesBond trending on X as posters mentioned they’d now not watch the franchise if a Jewish actor was forged within the lead position.
The actor, 33, advised the Guardian in 2015 that he was happy when somebody advised him he resembled a trendy Hasidic Jew. “That was good as a result of I’ve actually curly hair and in addition I’m Jewish,” he mentioned.
Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond got here to an finish after 5 movies with 2021’s No Time to Die. Names rumoured to be within the crosshairs to take over have included Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, James Norton, Regé-Jean Web page and Idris Elba.
