Regardless of being greater than twenty years faraway from taking part in James Bond, Pierce Brosnan hasn’t dominated out reprising the function if requested, saying he might nonetheless “get away with” portraying the character.
Throughout a latest look on the TODAY present, Brosnan was requested by host Savannah Guthrie whether or not he might nonetheless play the enduring undercover agent. “I believe I might get away with it, sure,” he replied. “In a pinch.”
Guthrie continued by asking the Irish actor whether or not he’d “wish to” revisit the function. “I don’t know. Let’s see the place the wind takes us,” he replied. “Let’s see what occurs. They know the place to search out me. Why not?”
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Although Guthrie and Brosnan agreed Bond is “a really bodily function,” the host pointed to his portrayal of a London gang patriarch in Man Ritchie’s new Paramount+ sequence MobLand as proof he can be up for the duty.
“That’s very type of you to say,” Brosnan responded. “There’s nice issues you are able to do with AI as properly, so there you’ve got it. [But] I’m fairly content material the way in which it’s. I like Mobland, and The Thursday Homicide Membership is popping out someday this yr.”
In fact, Brosnan performed 007 from the mid-90s to the early 2000s within the movies Golden Eye, Die One other Day, The World Is Not Sufficient, and Tomorrow By no means Dies. Since Amazon not too long ago took over artistic management of the Bond franchise, Brosnan has continuously been requested to weigh in about its future throughout his press tour for MobLand.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he mentioned it ought to be “a given” that any future Bond ought to be British. He’s additionally backed long-rumored frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the following Bond, telling Yahoo Leisure that the actor “can be nice.”
Brosnan at present stars in MobLand alongside Tom Hardy and Helen Mirren. He can even co-star with Mirren, Ben Kingsley, and David Tennant in Netflix’s The Thursday Homicide Membership.
@todayshow Would Pierce Brosnan ever return to his function as James Bond? “I believe I might get away with it, sure. In a pinch,” Brosnan mentioned. “Let’s see the place the wind takes us … they know the place to search out me.” #TODAYShow
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