'Beneath You'
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Daniel Craig!
I don't care really for the Bond franchise and cannot remember the last Bond flick I've seen, but I might just have to see the next one if he's going to be Bond.
I agree with Robin. He's not handsome in a conventional way, but in three films I've seen him in (Mother, Layer Cake, and Sylvia), he had an incredibly magnetic screen presence. Intense, a bit dangerous, and a generally sexy bag of sex.
I even liked him in Tomb Raider. I have no bad opinions about this choice.
He lloks like Steve McQueen a bit to me.
I saw Layer Cake, and thought it was a preposterous bit of fluff, and that Craig was reasonably magnetic, but not all that. I've not seen him in anything else.
My prevailing notion is, though, isn't he a bit old? He's probably 40, and that doesn't leave a lot of time for an every-three-years Bond movie before the chest hair turns white and they retire him as they did Brosnan.
Still, he's obscure enough he won't get shirty over other roles, his interpretation of Bond, etc. etc. I'm sure the producers were keeping that in mind when casting -- a Hugh Jackman would have too much weight to throw around, and that's the last thing an aging franchise needs.
Nutty, one of my friends is upset because of his age too. She thought that they were going to be exploring Bond's early days with MI-6.
Of course, that could be a completely different project.
He's 37, just like Hugh Jackman, younger than Clive Owen by about 4 years -- Goran's the only kid (at 33) whose name I remember seriously tossed about.
Hot Doctor Luka is only 33?
t feels old
I love Clive Owen, but he's a bit too rough for the role. And Goran--well. Not British.
I vaguely recall the notion of Wossname the other Australian, Eric Bana, who is somewhere in the middle of his 30s, and then a lot of nonsense fantasy-ideas like Jude Law. Of course, some of these names have been bandied about for 3 years, so it's not totally a surprise that some of them have aged into the "almost too old" category.
Craig looks older than his age. Wait, what am I saying? This is Hollywood. Of course he looks older than his "age."
Bwah! But he's British, so probably has been reporting actual age all along.
If you want to see him dangerous and sexy, try Love Is the Devil where he plays a lover of artist Francis Bacon that the latter meets during an attempted robbery. Though Sir Derek Jacobi's performance is really the best thing to recommend that film for.
OK, I'm looking at D. Craig's filmography at IMDb and among his upcoming flicks, there are;
"Munich": a big Spielberg film about Palestine/Israel conflict during the Munich Olympic. (Co-starring, funnily enough, Eric Bana.)
"The Visiting": a supernatural/sci-fi thing about aliens-among-us by some German director. Also has Nicole Kidman & Jeremy Northam.
"Have You Heard?": ANOTHER Capote biopic--the hell?--in which he plays Perry Smith.
Looks like he's a bit of an up-and-comer; could become big potentially if the Bond thing takes off.