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It's a birthday year for Bond, James Bond . It's been 60 years since the first novel written by Ian Fleming With the spy came out. And the first features of a star film Sean Connery Like the spy, Dr no made his debut almost a decade later in theaters in 1962. This year of the 60th anniversary comes at a critical time for the franchise - No time to die , released in 2021, marked the end of Daniel Craig Running as a character, and his successor has not yet been chosen. One might think that the actors would claim the role, but at least an old link finds impossible to look at his own passage in the secret services of His Majesty. Pierce Brosnan , which brought the franchise from 1995 to 2002, says that revisiting your own performance is "a horrible feeling". Read the rest to know why.

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James Bond was one of the most reliable franchises in cinema in the 1980s. Connery recently returned to this role in 1983 in the Never say never (One of the few "unofficial" liaison films not produced by Eon Productions), a decade after having declared that he "Never Again" plays Bond . Meanwhile, after a short passage with George Lazenby , the official bond franchise has become more popular than ever Roger Moore (photo above), which spent 13 years and seven films in 007. When Moore announced that he hung up the tuxedo in 1985, he became one of the hottest roles available in Hollywood.

Irish actor Brosnan was 32 years old at the time, having come as a stage director in London before winning a role of launching James Bond in the 1982 American television series Remington Steele . He had also drawn the attention of the producer of the Bond franchise then Albert R. Broccoli (of the same family who may have invented vegetable ) during the shooting of Just for your eyes , in which Brosnan's first wife, Cassandra Harris (photo with him above), played the countess of Bond Girl Lisl von Schlaf. The broccoli would have said that if Brosnan could act, " He is [his] guy "To replace Moore. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Lucky for Brosnan, NBC canceled Remington Steele Towards the end of the 1985-1986 television season, leaving him open to the hearing for the role. His competition would have been returned to Sam Neill (The New Zealand actor who continued to play jurassic park ) And Timothy Dalton . Broccoli pushed for Brosnan, but when rumors, Brosnan plays Bond set up the notes of the last episodes of Steele, NBC reversed the course and Renewed the show . As Los Angeles Times noted at the time, Brosnan has been trapped contractually To continue in the series, and Eon Productions decided that it was too messy. They throw Dalton instead ; His first film Bond was 1997 Living lights .

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Although it seemed that Brosnan had lost, the cast of Dalton simply delayed his liaison years. Dalton came out of the franchise After only two films And Eon offered the contract to Brosnan in 1993. Brosnan remained in the franchise for almost a decade, with four films: 1995 Gilded eye , 1997 Tomorrow never dies , 1999 The world is not enough and 2002 Die another day . In 2004, he hung up the tuxedo, finally passing the role to Craig.

Although his franchise films were relatively well received, a decade after leaving the role, Brosnan admitted that he had never been comfortable with his interpretation of the character and could not see him again. "I have no desire to look at myself as James Bond because it's never good enough-it's a horrible feeling," he said The telegraph in 2014 ( via film ), also saying: "I felt that I was caught in a time chain between Roger and Sean." The actor noted that the PG aspect of the films also bothers him. "Violence has never been real; man's brute force has never been palpable," he said. "It was quite docile, and the characterization had no follow -up of reality; it was the surface." However, he admitted that his problems could simply come from him in his own work. "[I] could have had to do with my own insecurity by playing it too," noted the star.

Even if Brosnan feels his inheritance while 007 leaves much to be desired, he admitted The telegraph This role was "the gift that continues to give". During the four films, Brosnan won around $ 40 million, giving him the financial freedom to continue his own projects. "[I] allowed me to create my own production company and make my own films," he said, including the years 2005 Matador , Who Roger Ebert called " The best performance of his career . "He also gave her the freedom to play roles that he would never have been Adapted for otherwise , like Sam Carmichael in the musical film Mamma Mia! .