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.

Eric Bana (né Banadinovich) is 37 too.

And Goran--well. Not British.

Not British isn't a problem, considering the previous Bonds. Not able to play British is probably more important.

I don't think that Clive is inherently rougher than Connery was, and I'd love to have seen him give it a shot.

Not British isn't a problem, considering the previous Bonds. Not able to play British is probably more important.

Well, everything I've ever seen him in he's had the same accent. (Even that bit part in that Nicole Kidman/George Clooney movie, where he played a Russian soldier -- ironically enough, because it was a movie about Yugoslavians, he played a non-Yugoslav, and as Russians go, he sounded kind of in the neighborhood, but not quite in the right building.) I don't know if he can mock up the proper accent -- some people just don't do that.

He didn't sound like Hot Doctor Luka to me in Elektra. He didn't sound American either -- weirdly anonymous. But I figure that should be what holds an actor back. Inability to act the part. Forget being the part.

Right. If he were able to believably fake a upper-class British accent, then I'd have no beef with him getting cast. My guess is that he won't be able to. Actually, I can't imagine Goran V. without the vague Eastern European accent, since his voice and the accent is not a small part of his appeal.

Speaking of accents, Orlando Bloom's American doesn't sound convincing even in the ads for Elizabethtown, so I wonder how that will play -- if he'll do more parts as an American or not.