Daniel Craig Was First Choice For Bond Says Barbara Broccoli

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Wednesday 08th Nov 2006

Daniel Craig Was First Choice For Bond Says Barbara Broccoli

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James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has denied reports that she offered the role of 007 to other actors before Daniel Craig.

It has been widely reported that British actors like Ewan McGregor and Clive Owen had been offered the role, but Broccoli has claimed that there were no other potential Bond?s lined up.

According to FemaleFirst, Broccoli said recently: "It was a little bizarre reading things that were so not true. First of all, with the whole casting, who we were looking at, who we were offering it to.

"The reality was that (producer) Michael (Wilson) and I wanted Daniel from the very beginning. Our only challenge was to get him to agree to do it. All the speculation was going on about all these other people for like a year or more.

"But the time we gave him the script to the time we announced him was three weeks. He was the only person we offered it to... All I could see every day was this extraordinary actor who was giving 150 per cent, who would train for three months and just give his all".

No who started these malicious rumours about Clive Owen being first choice eh?

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Barbara is to Albert as Sofia is to Francis. The right pedigree, but inferior artistic instincts. Who suffers? The moviegoer.
by RENEGABE | Send Message
3 years ago
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He is soooooooo ugly !!!
by Rey, Berlin
3 years ago
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Craig is more to the real life agent, not tall, and dark with catalogue posed features. There is no room here for surfing icebergs - only raw talent portraying a raw bond. Renegabe and Rey, be sure to take your humble pie out of the oven on the 17th Nov.
by bonding | Send Message
3 years ago
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He’s soooooooooo hot !!!
by Sarah Adams, Washington DC, UK
3 years ago
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We know this is not true. I hate them for treating the us like we are stupid. Does Broccoli even know Daniel said he talked with Pierce about the job in February 05? and that he hit the gym for a year after he found out he had the role? She does know the actors have come public about being offered the role, before Daniel? I got believe Daniel and the actors on this one. I do believe she wanted Daniel and that was that.
by Zoe, Denver
3 years ago
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