The search for the perfect actor to play James Bond is famous difficult.
Even the choice of Sir Sean Connery – the first to play the legendary British spy in Dr No of 1962 – was loaded with difficulty and disagreement. The concise author of the books, Ian Fleming, was furious that a workers' boy from Edinburgh could get the role, referring to him as' a overdeveloped stuntman 'and belittle his Scottish accent.
Fleming wanted the handsome and Debonair David Niven, born in London but with strong Scottish roots, but was spoken out. Niven, who died in 1983 at the age of 73, could eventually play Bond in an unofficial parody version of 1967 from Casino Royale, which turned out to be a financial success but critical failure.
Despite his initial horror, Fleming, himself of Scots Descent, was so impressed by the representation of Connery that he gave a Scottish father of Glencoe and a Scottish training at the Fettes School in Edinburgh in his next novel, “About Hare Majesty's Secret Service '.
Connery would continue with immortal 007 in six films – from Russia with love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, you only live twice, diamonds are forever, and the unofficial never says again. When he finally hung up his smoking and his Walther PPK, five other actors claimed the role – George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig – who have none of them north of the border.
But since Daniel Craig announced that 'no time to die' would be his last James Bond film, there is feverish speculation about his successor. Now, after 25 official Bond films, the name of a relatively unknown, long, dark shot – just like Connery when he was chosen – has emerged as a likely competition to take over from Craig. Stuart Martin joins a list of Scottish actors – and even an actress – who have inned a Kwantum Comforter of the pursuit of Connery.
Here Gavin Madeley runs the rule over seven Scots, past and present, who hope that their word will be their bond or who thanks a Dr. No thanks: Thanks: thanks
Bond author Ian Fleming dismissed Sir Sean Connery as 'an over-developed stuntman'
Stuart Martin came out of nowhere to lead the indictment to replace Daniel Craig as a bond
Stuart Martin
Just like the bullet of a murderer, Stuart Martin has come out of nowhere to lead to replace Craig as a bond.
On 6ft 2ins long, the 39-year-old father of two, from Ayrshire, who appeared in BBC Sitcom Hebburn in 2013, together with now wife Lisa McGryllis, there would have aroused with bosses at Eon Productions with his recent Taai Guy-Rol in Zack Snyder's 2021 Heist Comedy Army of Thieves, where shooting outs and stunts with a high octane area includes.
After he was strengthened for the part in the gym, he told an interview: “Our stunt director let us do crazy things and jumped in moving vans with the camera.”
One industry -insider told The Mail: 'Stuart is the name discussed in bond circles by those who know. He is in serious statement, “Add:” It would be a great milestone to have a Scottish band again.
And let's not forget it, Eon does not care if the man who lands the course is famous or not. It's about getting the man they want. '
Anthony Rogers was tested on the screen for 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' from 1969
Anthony Rogers
When Connery stopped with Bond after five films (before they returned for the diamonds of 1971 forever), five actors were tested for '1969' On Her Majesty's Secret Service ', including an unknown Australian named George Lazenby and Anthony Rogers, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, a 32-year-old character apparently about star row.
After visiting Queen Victoria School in Dunblane, Rogers had joined the British merchant marines before setting in Florida and ran a moderately successful acting career.
He played an alien in five episodes of TV's Doctor Who, a doctor in the John Wayne Western, El Dorado (1966), and Sir Dinadan, a knight of the round table, in Camelot (1967),
But the Bond Screen test proved the kiss of death. While Lazenby further claimed the role, Rogers would disappear into a lack of clarity, never to land another acting role.
Ewan McGregor 'was never a serious competition' to play 007
Ewan McGregor
His excellent film career has had the Midas, but Hollywood Megastar Ewan McGregor is – literally, it seems unable to match the heights of Sir Sean Connery when it comes to playing Bond.
Despite following the illustrious footsteps of another acting knight, Sir Alec Guinness, by playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Three Star Wars Prequels, a leaked studio memo revealed that he would never follow Connery if the next Scottish 007-outdat, on 5ft 10ins, he was considered 'too short'.
The name of McGregor was one of the many bands about when Pierce Brosnan hung up his Walther PPK after his fourth outing as Bond in 2002's that Another Day.
Producers eventually settled on Daniel Craig, who had trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in London simultaneously with McGregor and Joseph Fiennes – although Craig has the same height as McGregor in Porth, now 53.
But, as Casino Royale director Martin Campbell explained: 'When we started, Ewan was on the list, but I don't think there was a well -known British actor who wasn't.
Then we tightened that list to eight people we have tested. Ewan was never a serious competition. 'Au!
David Tennant was once on a long list of actors to play James Bond
David Tennant
Another who was running alongside Daniel Craig, the 53-year-old from Bathgate, West Lothian, revealed that he recently discovered that producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson once followed him secretly as the spy.
Tennant, the best known for playing Doctor Who, told the acting for others Podcast: 'I never believed that I had done that [been considered for Bond]Until I recently worked with a director who had worked with the broccolis, who said, “Yes, you were on the list that time.”
I suppose it must have been Daniel Craig; I would have been a child for that. '
He said that playing bond 'a bit of a game changer, that level of celebrity' would have been, but added: 'I think it was a fairly long list and I don't think I will ever be completely in the TOP from WAS. '
Last year he got his wish to play 007 – albeit in a tuxedo with red upholstery and buttons for a comic strip sketch.
Sam Heughan was seriously considered the man to play the iconic spy
Sam Heughan
The Outlander star probably spent just as much time with his clothes in five seasons of the internationally popular historical adventure series as James Bond in the 63 years since Dr. No first hit cinema screens.
Thus, Hunky Heughan inevitably caused a frisson of excitement among fans when he revealed his interest in playing the supernuated superpy.
To his honor, the 44-year-old, Van Balmaclellan, Dumfrieshire, also tempered every expectation, which suggests that “any reasonably well-known British actor who has worn a lawsuit immediately thrown his name with fans in the ring.”
In his memoirs from 2022, 'Waypoints: My Scottish Journey', Heughan reveals that he actually auditioned for 007 in Casino Royale before Daniel Craig got the role.
Heughan, who then played the leading role in the Spoof 2018, the spy that dumped me, wrote that his Bond audition was just like that no one ever confirmed that I was taken into account for the leading role, but I knew it.
Of course it blew me to think that I might even be in the context for such an iconic figure. “He added later:” It was a stage in my life in which I was probably not ready.
But I wonder what would have happened if I had it. 'Never say again, do sam?
Jack Lowden has long been advertised as the next band, also by his own wife
Jack Lowden
Already a veteran of the espionage game after his leading role as a failed agent River Cartwright in the award-winning thriller series of Apple TV, Slow Horses, Lowden is already steeped in the dark world of espionage.
Switching MI5 To become the most famous MI6 agent in his country, would be the play of children for the 34-year-old from Oxton, Berwickshire, although he never wanted Daniel Craig to take a step back.
“Bond to deal with age is a brilliant idea and I think we should go all the way to Daniel's 85,” he said. Nevertheless, his own opportunities have been shortened.
In November Gambling.com said: 'The star of Jack Lowden is over the predominance.
Lowden's excellent comic timing brings lifeity [Slow Horses]But he also takes a blow when needed, so he has the attributes needed to play Bond. '
Just like his colleagues, Lowden plays a Waste Intelligence Misfit, neither Rakish nor Debonair such as Bond.
Yet he did not hurt his chances when he cut an elegant dashboard that last month modeled a sharp black smoking in the Golden Globes, while his new wife, the Irish actress Saoirse Ronan he married in July, is non -uniform that he was the X – Factor has, saying, “He should be a bond.”
Karen Gillan could play Bond if the franchise decides to give himself a modern turn
Karen Gillan
After traveling from time, the Sidekick Amy Pond and Blockbuster runs through the Marvel Cinema Universe as Nebula, it already feels like the world is not enough for the Auburn-Haired Invernesian.
Now some experts believe that the time is ripe for a new kind of 'Bond Girl' with a woman who takes on the role of the best secret agent of Great Britain.
Many see the well-tied All-Action shoulders of the 37-year-old Gillan as perfect to fill the famous smoking of Bond.
When her name was first praised three years ago, a William Hill spokesperson said: 'Karen Gillan would be a great choice for the role – not only she can continue the Scottish 007 foundation that Sir Sean Connery started, but she can Add some mist, but she can add some mist, but she can add some mist and amy pound-like sass to the roll and add a new dimension to the legendary character. '
It may be more difficult to convince film boss Barbara Broccoli, who has claimed that the Bond can be of any color, but he is male. ”
There, Gillan himself claimed that she really wants to play a bad guy and said: “My father always told me when I was younger:” You don't want to be a bond -you want to be a villain. ” '
Imagine that we ended up with one scot that bond played and the other as the bond scrap. What a stramash that would be!
