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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00:00Tell 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.
00:10Well, 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.
00:17And who knows, you know, he'd be great. Who knows in the future.
00:21But 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.
00:32You know, back in the day, Brian Cox would have made a great Bond.
00:36So imagine that in a parallel universe in the 60s or 70s or something.
00:44But yeah, he was he was brilliant to work with.
00:47You know, he came we were just he was our first choice and we were completely over the moon when he said yes.
00:54And he just came to the set full of ideas and he wanted to give it a kind of Roger Moore.
00:59That was his thing. He's like, I love that. To me, Bond is about the humour.
01:02So he wanted that kind of, you know, this is fun series.
01:06We didn't want to take it too seriously. So he wanted to sort of.
01:11Raise an eyebrow slightly and just enjoy it, you know, just enjoy it.
01:18And I think he sort of, you know, you can sort of see he's having fun.
01:20He's having fun with it, with the idea of being a Bond villain.
01:24And I think it wouldn't have worked if we'd sort of taken it really seriously.
01:27You know, it's clearly a piece of a piece of fun.
01:30I'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, you know, like when you do anything, it sort of takes a little while to find it.
01:40You know, to kind of to kind of warm up.
01:44But 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 film with him and he walks, he walks through on set and he's all dressed up in a control outfit.
01:57And it was literally the night before I'd watched like just just been watching some successions.
02:04So first of all, initially it comes in, you're like, wow, I've got kind of Logan Paul in front of me.
02:07He's a really mean guy, super nice, super friendly.
02:10And he sat down on the desk and kind of spun around in front of these screens and it all kind of set up there.
02:15And it was like, OK, this is pretty cool.
02:17This kind of works. And he's just like, you know, with his cravat on there and he's got a beard that's got there and he's got his pen out.
02:23And yeah, as Julian said, he just kind of like naturally just it just kind of worked.
02:28He kind of got it.
02:29You could just look at him all day. Right. And he could, you know, read a telephone book and you're going to listen.
02:33You know, he's just got he's just got that gravitas.
02:35I think because there was a moment in the first episode, you know, without giving some spoilers away.
02:41There's a you know, some people who go out.
02:44I know exactly what you're talking about.
02:47Yeah. And he improvised this thing where he just went, oh, poor lasses.
02:55And 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, but he's still got a bit of a heart.
03:03And then he just goes, bye, bye.
03:06And it's like there was like a flash of empathy from from from the Bond villain there for these guys who'd gone out.
03:13And then he went, oh, no.
03:16So when he started to kind of improvise, then it kind of, you know, it really brought it to life.
03:22You know, the script was pretty good, but he made it much better.