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02/01/24 9:03:03 PM
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boxoto
02/01/24 9:39:42 PM
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...tape over Daniel Craig's, but the producer preferred Craig due to Cavill being too young, and Craig's performance in Layer Cake

Almost 20 years on from losing out on the role of James Bond, Henry Cavill has discovered that the Casino Royale director supposedly "preferred" him over Daniel Craig to start off with.

"When Henry was auditioning for Bond [in 2005], I was at Pinewood [Studios] and Daniel [Craig] was as well," Argylle director Matthew Vaughn said during an interview with SiriusXM.

"Id go off and meet with Daniel and he said, 'There's this young guy called Henry Cavill who I think they're seeing as well'... We hadn't done Stardust yet, and that's how you came onto my radar."

Vaughn then drops a bombshell that even MI6 would have done well to cover up after all this time: Casino Royale director Martin Campbell seemingly preferred Henry Cavill's audition over Daniel Craig's but producer Barbara Broccoli had other ideas.

"I know that the director preferred your audition, but Barbara preferred [Daniel Craig's 2004 film] Layer Cake," Vaughn reveals. "Then they decided you were too young. I probably shouldn't have said that, but the Broccolis aren't too keen on me anyway, so what have I got to lose?"

Previously, Martin Campbell told CinemaBlend that he was more concerned with Cavill's experience, or lack thereof, when it came to casting the next Bond for Casino Royale.

"I did test him for Bond, as you know. He did a very good test, [but] he was too young, and also he wasn't as experienced as Daniel," Campbell explained. "Daniel just fitted the part from being a superb actor, and probably the best actor amongst them all."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/20-years-james-bond-audition-105648023.html

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Revisited
02/01/24 10:01:23 PM
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Too young, the fuck? It was literally a Bond origin story, literal perfect casting.

I'd post the jackie chan confuse face if I had it
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ironman2009
02/01/24 10:07:47 PM
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layer cake is a great movie

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Revisited
02/01/24 10:10:02 PM
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I loved casino Royale and Daniel Craig put in a great performance there, having fantastic chemistry with eva green, but... Henry Cavill literally looks the role of tall dark and handsome... and his performances in man from uncle and mission impossible indicate to me he could have fit as the morally grey Bond.

I remember at the time I wasn't convinced by Daniel Craig because I only saw him in road to perdition where he played a skeevy disgusting villain
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FortuneCookie
02/01/24 10:37:31 PM
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Daniel Craig is an awesome action hero, but a poor interpretation of Bond.

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boxoto
02/02/24 1:48:13 AM
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bump

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Smashingpmkns
02/02/24 1:50:20 AM
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Cavill would be an awful Bond tbh. Great choice at the end of the day cuz Craig might be the best Bond ever.

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Incredible
02/02/24 1:53:55 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Cavill would be an awful Bond tbh. Great choice at the end of the day cuz Craig might be the best Bond ever.

Pierce Brosnan da GOAT

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Hospy
02/02/24 1:59:06 AM
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Yeah, I'm disappointed too.
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Newave
02/02/24 4:01:04 AM
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funny, I always thought Craig looked too old and "american" to be a good Bond, I hated his Bond movies, they were almost as much as Brosnan's

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solosnake
02/02/24 4:11:42 AM
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he is better as the witcher than he would have been as bond


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xlr_big-coop
02/02/24 4:14:27 AM
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Revisited posted...
Too young, the fuck? It was literally a Bond origin story, literal perfect casting.
FortuneCookie posted...
Daniel Craig is an awesome action hero, but a poor interpretation of Bond.


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