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      ‘Chops, talent and charisma’: Pierce Brosnan backs Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Bond

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 12:01

    The four-time 007 described him as ‘the greatest’ while George Lazenby said he ‘can handle the stunts and all the ladies who love a man in a tux’

    Pierce Brosnan has become the latest former 007 to give his blessing to Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking over the role of the spy.

    Brosnan, who played the intelligence agent in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, was speaking on RTÉ Radio’s The Ray D’Arcy Show, and discussed acting alongside the younger star in 2009 film The Greatest, in which they played father and son.

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      George Lazenby backs Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Bond

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 12:43


    The actor who played 007 in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service said he would be happy to support Taylor-Johnson, whose possible casting has led to an antisemitic backlash

    George Lazenby, who played 007 in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, has endorsed the current frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson to take over as the next James Bond.

    Speaking to TMZ, Lazenby said he believed Taylor-Johnson, “can handle the stunts, and all the ladies who love a man in a tux”.

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      Keoghan, Madden, James Martin: who should be James Bond, if Aaron Taylor-Johnson is out?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 20 March - 14:37

    Idris Elba has been waiting in the wings for years but perhaps the time has come for Matt Smith, Henry Golding … or a certain TV chef

    Just as the runners and riders were parading around the paddock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has sensationally dismounted and stalked back to the changing room, thoughtfully tapping his whip against his thigh. What happened? Did his agent overplay things by sneakily leaking negotiations to the press, hoping the subsequent acclaim would nail down a whopping fee? Did they get their bluff called? Who knows? Either way, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, keepers of the Bond flame in their legendary Eon offices in Piccadilly, must now resume the search and once again study the crumpled and heavily thumbed form sheet …

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      ‘You can’t always win in this industry’: Theo James

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 17 March - 12:00

    The actor found fame as the cocky finance bro in The White Lotus. Now, as he stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, he talks to Tim Lewis about being ‘irritatingly competitive’, giving up music for acting – and whether James Bond really is on the horizon...

    When Theo James read the script for the second season of The White Lotus , the British actor wasn’t immediately sure what he could bring to the part of Cameron. The character was “another finance bro”: cocky, suave and superficial. “Interesting,” he recalls, “but we’ve seen it a hundred times.”

    At the audition, though, the 39-year-old James was won over by Mike White, who writes and directs the hit HBO series, a comic psychodrama revolving around the employees and hyper-wealthy guests of the fictional White Lotus hotel resort. The first season was set on Maui. The second, with a mostly new cast, relocated to Sicily and was more explicitly carnal and lascivious. Cameron was part of a foursome, with his wife (played by Meghann Fahy) and another couple (Will Sharpe and Aubrey Plaza) whom Cameron appears to want to dominate physically and sexually.

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      Pamela Salem obituary

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 7 March - 18:38

    Actor who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and had roles in Doctor Who and Blake’s 7

    The actor Pamela Salem, who has died aged 80, brought a touch of class to a number of well-known franchises during a screen career of more than 50 years. She achieved cinematic immortality by playing the loyal secretary Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), an anomalous entry to the canon, made independently of the Eon-produced series , that marked the return of Sean Connery to the role of the famous secret agent after an absence of 12 years.

    Salem had worked with Connery on the 1978 film The First Great Train Robbery and when he found out she was in the running for Moneypenny he encouraged the producers to hire her. She was disappointed that many of her scenes ended up on the cutting-room floor, but her playful chemistry with Connery is still apparent in the finished product.

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      James Bond and Doctor Who actor Pamela Salem dies aged 80

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 10:31

    The star known as Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again and Prof Rachel Jensen in Doctor Who has died aged 80

    Pamela Salem, known for her role as James Bond’s secretary Miss Moneypenny in Sean Connery’s Never Say Never Again, has died at the age of 80. The British actor, who also had a role in 1978 crime film The Great Train Robbery opposite Connery, died on Wednesday according to Big Finish Productions.

    Born in 1944 in India, she attended Heidelberg university in Germany and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, before starting in repertory theatre in Chesterfield and York. She also appeared in US drama series The West Wing, where she played the UK prime minister, and medical series ER.

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      Sheryl Crow: ‘AI is so real. It feels like an assault on my spirit’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 22 February - 14:00 · 1 minute

    The American singer-songwriter answers your questions about working with Johnny Cash and the Rolling Stones, what makes her happy – and why she used to hate All I Wanna Do

    What inspired you to make a new album, Evolution , after calling 2019 ’s Threads your “ final ” album? Jade99
    I’m raising two teenage boys who ask a lot of hard questions, and after we started talking about AI I found myself writing a lot in the mornings after they go to school. I wound up with seven songs that were halfway between a diary and venting. I called my producer friend Mike Elizondo and said, “I have these songs. I don’t want to produce myself. Can I send them?” He was blown away and excited, so we wrote two more and then we had an album.

    It’s my response to what’s happening in my country, in my little world, and I guess in humanity at large. In Mike’s studio this young songwriter said she couldn’t get any traction from male singers unless she had a guy singing on the demo, so she paid $5 to have John Mayer’s voice singing on it, using AI. When she played it for us I almost started crying. It was so real, it felt like an assault on my spirit. We have to protect ourselves. So the album’s full of all this light and fluffy stuff [laughter].

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      Dr No: Sean Connery behind the scenes on the first James Bond film – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 15 February - 12:14


    Released in 1962, Dr No starred Connery as the British secret agent in a groundbreaking action film that became a worldwide hit. It also established one of the longest-running and highest-grossing film franchises. Here we go behind the scenes, with Connery, Ursula Andress and author Ian Fleming

    James Bond: Dr No is published by Taschen on 1 March

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      Zack Snyder aimerait s’attaquer à James Bond

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 29 December - 10:00

    Zack Snyder James Bond

    Alors qu'il vient à peine de présenter sa première partie de Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder confie son envie de s'emparer du célèbre espion pour le raconter différemment.