# Cast a new James Bond **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698 "2002-10-10T16:33:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/21 "2002-10-11T01:13:10Z")
Well, what are we looking for in our new Bond? Frankly, I love Sean Connery. Chauvenistic, yet classy. Violent, yet tender. Scottish, yet doesn’t have relations with sheep. Just the perfect edge mix. So we need to have a Bond who can do that. I also read and loved the books, so I’m partial to the Bond illustrated in those, which is the complete opposite of that sissy Brosnan. Can’t stand him. What about Russell Crowe? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/22 "2002-10-11T01:20:13Z")
Heh. Not too long ago, a couple of my friends and I were discussing the pros and cons of Ewan M as Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/23 "2002-10-11T02:48:31Z")
Hugh Jackman has a lot of the same appealing elements as Sean Connery. I’d love to see him take a crack at the role. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/24 "2002-10-11T07:20:25Z")
If Robson Green ever plays Bond I’m throwing my TV out. Agh. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/25 "2002-10-11T13:35:33Z")
I do like Russell Crowe, but he’ll need a haircut and a shave, and he’ll have to quit drinking the Foster’s and start drinking Martini’s shaken not stirred. I don’t think he would do James Bond, I would mind seeing RC as a villian though. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/26 "2002-10-11T13:46:15Z")
Cate Blanchett. And why not? ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/27 "2002-10-11T15:16:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krokodil \* > \*\*Hugh Jackman has a lot of the same appealing elements as Sean Connery. I’d love to see him take a crack at the role. \*\* I was thinking of him too. Take his character from **Kate & Leopold** mix in a little from **X-Men** and add just a dash of **Swordfish**. 20 minutes at 350, and you get 007.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/28 "2002-10-11T15:59:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Go alien \* > \*\*Cate Blanchett. > And why not? \*\* Yeah, I’d go with that suggestion. That would be very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/29 "2002-10-11T17:49:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*Heh. Not too long ago, a couple of my friends and I were discussing the pros and cons of Ewan M as Bond. \*\* I had been tossing that idea around too before I settled on Owen. Jonny Lee Miller might be able to pull it off as well (and he does a good Connery impression (re: Trainspotting). ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698/30 "2002-10-11T18:05:17Z")
**Never** Robson Green, and Timothy Dalton shouldn’t have been allowed to make the ones he did, never mind make any more!! James Purefoy, from **A Knight’s Tale** and **Resident Evil** would be a good Bond. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-new-james-bond/131698.md?page=1)