James Bond Pierce Brosnan doesn’t like his 007: ‘It was never good enough’

Whether we like the character of James Bond or not, the saga left its mark in the history of cinema with 25 films since 1962 and six interpretations of the famous British spy (if you exclude the comedy Casino Royale).

With so many actors and feature films, some audiences have taken it more or less well, but no audience looks harder on some James Bond than Pierce Brosnan himself!

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Brosnan starred in four James Bond films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). in 2014Twelve years after his last appearance in the saga, the Irish actor bitterly returns to the legacy he left behind as 007:

I don’t feel like watching James Bond myself because he was never good enough! And it’s a terrible feeling.

The reason for this regret? An overly shy tone that didn’t match the times:

“Between Roger and Sean I felt like I was in a time capsule. It was very hard for me to make sense. The violence was never realistic, the brute force of this man was never palpable. It was very restrained and the characterization wasn’t all achieved in terms of realism: we stayed on the surface, but that might have something to do with me with your own insecurities in acting.”

Pierce Brosnan has long wanted to play James Bond, but was turned down in favor of Timothy Dalton because of Killing is not Playing and License to Kill. Like Sam Neill, he auditioned and, like him, was not selected. He was rerunning episodes of his series The Remington Steele Mysteries.

When he gets his chance for GoldenEye, he will be cast in four films. Two years after the release of Die Another Day, in February 2004, he indicated through the press that he would not play 007 again in the fifth opus. Of its four films, the saga will retain only Judi Dench as M, the head of MI:6.