‘There Was A Little Chat’: Guy Pearce Tells Us How Close He Came To Playing James Bond Back In The Day, And How He’d Feel About The Role Now

Mike Reyes from Cinemablend interviews Guy Pearce.

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00:00back in 2014 jeffrey deaver published a james bond one-off novel called carte blanche and he

00:05had said in an interview sean connery is my favorite but if carte blanche ever gets made

00:09guy pierce he looks more like the bond in my mind more than anyone else and he has the presence

00:15did you did that moment ever lead first of all were you aware of that moment and then

00:20if you were did that moment ever lead to you and your reps sort of trying to pursue that

00:24i wasn't aware of that moment no um there was a little chat uh not nothing official uh uh um

00:34knowing that the that it was sort of the role was kind of opening up and would that be something that

00:39i would you know and funnily enough you know that all sort of came i guess during that time that i

00:45was kind of being open to more things but i suppose and i you know it wasn't anything serious enough

00:50that i either pursued or had to sort of resist pursuing it was sort of just a whim of a kind

00:56of an idea to even think about uh so it didn't you know there was no real substance to having to

01:02think about it much um but if i was to think about it i think i probably i would i mean if if it was a

01:12one-off then that would be one thing but to play a repeat role having done all the television that

01:17i've done in australia particularly where i've played the same role for four years on one show

01:21and the same role for four years on another show i mean i did play jack irish on and off but they

01:25were sort of almost telemovies you know one-off type things um but the idea of becoming someone

01:33like james bond or you know i just i don't know i'm thankfully i've passed the point now so i don't

01:37have to think about it