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    Black bloke Bond

    It's not a bad idea. Idris Elba from The Wire.


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    Black bloke Bond

    Goo luck with that. Having a blond Bond was considered heresy at the time (still is by some people).

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      The main problem would be the American bit.

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        The problem with Bond films is that, however the producers try to reboot or refresh the franchise, the main character being an utter twat presents something of an insurmountable obstacle.

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          Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote: The main problem would be the American bit.
          That wouldn't be a problem, Idris Elba's from London PPV.

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            #6
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            I don't know shit, it turns out.

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              #7
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              I think it's quite a common mistake, as most people first saw him in The Wire, so it's a natural assumption to make that he's American.

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                It would be a welcome return to a proper wooden actor playing Bond. He makes Daniel Craig look like Laurence Olivier. But all Bond needs to do is a) look cool b) look hard c) look moody and pissed-off most of the time and d) smile at girls, Elba can do all of those.

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                  Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote: The main problem would be the American bit.
                  Like Gawpus said, he's from Hackney. A more realistic problem: what are the odds even today for a black man, or a white man who didn't go to the right school for that matter, to climb to those dizzy heights in one of the most rarefied niches in civil service?

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                    Idris said it quite well himself. Something along the lines.
                    - I wouldn't want to be the first black Bond. I wouldn't want to be a black Bond. I would want to be Bond.

                    And that there might be why he wouldn't take the role.

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                      #11
                      Black bloke Bond

                      Of course, they're bringing Blofeld back for Spectre - Fleming's description may make a black portrayer seem unlikely but not impossible (imagine the son of a wartime dalliance with a Southern GI).

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                        Black bloke Bond

                        Pat McGatt wrote:
                        Originally posted by Pietro Paolo Virdis
                        The main problem would be the American bit.
                        Like Gawpus said, he's from Hackney. A more realistic problem: what are the odds even today for a black man, or a white man who didn't go to the right school for that matter, to climb to those dizzy heights in one of the most rarefied niches in civil service?
                        Yes. Also, can't imagine a Hackney boy putting up with that shit when he could, well, be Idris Elba.

                        Bond has to be able to blend in at black tie snooty events, Idris would stand out, and he'd forever be having to put snooty waiters in their place and explaining to old women that he's not the car valet. Police would be stopping him all the time. He couldn't just rock up and walk in. Bond occasionally has to knock out a security guard and steal their uniform. Idris would lose time running around looking for the big guy.

                        He could be another smooth secret agent, but not Bond. Bond's a dinosaur anyway, Jason Bourne was much better in the 2000s.

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