Toby Stephens says he can't face appearing in another James Bond film
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9719323/Maggie-Smiths-son-Toby-Stephens-says-he-cant-face-appearing-in-another-James-Bond-film.html
Sounds a bit of a rant from behind his Handbag.
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Daniel Craig may have managed to wangle a pay deal that will make him the envy of his predecessors as James Bond – a cool £31million for the next two instalments in the series – but it will still probably not to confer much gravitas upon him for some within his profession.
Toby Stephens, the distinguished stage actor, who appeared as a baddie in Die Another Day and has been touted as a successor to Craig, says he can’t face appearing in another Bond film.
“After [Die Another Day], I felt, 'I don’t want to do this any more because it uses about that much of my band-width,” Stephens says, holding up a finger and thumb just slightly apart.
The affable 43-year-old son of the late Sir Robert Stephens and Dame Maggie Smith says he is concerned, too, about the typecasting that comes with Bond films.
“Film and TV people go, 'You do that kind of thing,’ and that’s where they want to keep you.’” Happily, after Die Another Day, Stephens was able to re-establish his credentials as a proper actor with stage roles in Hamlet, A Doll’s House and Danton’s Death.
Sounds a bit of a rant from behind his Handbag.
) "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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He irritated me big time with his smugness in DAD hence I give him his dues as an actor as I guess that was what his role and acting required!
He irritated me big time with his smugness in DAD hence I give him his dues as an actor as I guess that was what his role and acting required!
I enjoyed him as Bond in the Radio Plays on BBC Radio 4, But if he
does any more I'll be thinking.
"Sadly this doesn't stretch him as an Actor " Old Loooooovie that he is.
That movie was so bad that Rosmunda Pike wanted no more of the James Bond series either, in fact, she blamed it on her faultering career a few years ago, albeit a bit recovered now.
He happens to be a villan in arguably one of the worst bond films. I'm hardly surprised that DAD didn't push his acting ability. Madonna "acted" in it, for goodness sake!
Now I don't want to appear cynical or anything but....could this just be a little self promotion using the Bond connection as a trigger?....like all those actresses who say in press releases that they "deny they are the next Bond Girl"?...could it? ..........!