Brian Cox Thinks He’d Be A Great 'James Bond' Villain, But '007' Producer Barbara Broccoli Paid The Man A Far Greater Compliment And She Isn‘t Wrong
Brian Cox Thinks He’d Be A Great 'James Bond' Villain, But '007' Producer Barbara Broccoli Paid The Man A Far Greater Compliment And She Isn‘t Wrong
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00:00 Tell me more about working with him and what was like the highlight moment that just showed you that he was, yes, this man is a Bond villain.
00:10 Well, I mean, just going back to him in Bond, you know, he said a few times that, you know, he would love to be considered to be a Bond villain.
00:17 And who knows, you know, he'd be great. Who knows in the future.
00:21 But we did a chat with I was talking to Barbara Broccoli last week and she said we did this press thing and she said he would have made a great Bond, you know, back in the day, Brian Cox would have made a great Bond.
00:36 So imagine that, you know, in a parallel universe in, you know, the 60s or 70s and other things.
00:44 But, yeah, he was he was brilliant to work with. You know, he came. We were just he was our first choice.
00:51 We were completely over the moon when he said yes. And he just came to the set full of ideas.
00:56 And he wanted to give it a kind of Roger Moore. That was his thing. He's like, I love that.
01:00 To me, Bond is about the humor. So he wanted that kind of, you know, this is fun series.
01:06 We didn't want to take it too seriously. So he wanted to sort of. Raise an eyebrow slightly, just enjoy it, you know, just enjoy it.
01:18 And I think he sort of you know, you can sort of see he's having fun, he's having fun with it, with the idea of being a Bond villain.
01:24 And I think it wouldn't have worked if we'd sort of taken it really seriously. You know, it's clearly a piece of fun.
01:30 I'm trying to think of a moment where we suddenly thought, oh, yeah, this is, you know, I think probably when we shot with him,
01:37 you know, like when you do anything, it sort of takes a little while to find it, you know, to kind of to kind of warm up.
01:44 But I think like, yeah, I think once for me, like when he I remember that the day when we were the first time we kind of filmed with him,
01:53 he walked through on set and he's all dressed up in a controlled outfit. And I was literally the night before I'd watched like just just been watching some successions.
02:03 So first, initially it comes in, you're like, wow, I've got kind of Logan Moore in front of me here.
02:07 He's a really mean guy. Super nice, super friendly.
02:10 And he sat down on the desk and kind of spun around in front of these screens and it all kind of set up there.
02:14 And it was like, OK, this is pretty cool. This kind of works.
02:17 And he's just like, you know, this cravat on there and it's got a beard, it's got there and it's got his pen out.
02:23 And, yeah, as Julian said, he just kind of like naturally just it just kind of worked.
02:27 He kind of got it. He just got the gra- you could just look at him all day, right.
02:30 And he could, you know, read a telephone book and you're going to listen.
02:33 You know, he's just got he's just got that gravitas. I think there was a moment in the first episode, you know, without giving some spoilers away,
02:41 there's, you know, some people who go out. I know exactly what you're talking about.
02:47 Yeah. And he improvised this thing where he just went, oh, poor lassies.
02:55 And he just improvised that. And it was like, oh, he's bringing this dimension to it where he's sort of he's this kind of evil villain,
03:01 but he's still got a bit of a heart. And then he just goes, bye bye.
03:06 And it's like there was like a flash of empathy from the Bond villain there, for these guys who'd gone out.
03:13 And then he went, oh no, bye. So when he started to kind of improvise, then it kind of, you know, it really brought it to life.
03:22 You know, the script was pretty good, but he made it much better.
03:25 [laughs]
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