Despite being more than two decades removed from playing James Bond, Pierce Brosnan hasn’t ruled out reprising the role if asked, saying he could still “get away with” portraying the character.
During a recent appearance on the TODAY show, Brosnan was asked by host Savannah Guthrie whether he could still play the iconic secret agent. “I think I could get away with it, yes,” he replied. “In a pinch.”
Guthrie continued by asking the Irish actor whether he’d “want to” revisit the role. “I don’t know. Let’s see where the wind takes us,” he replied. “Let’s see what happens. They know where to find me. Why not?”
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Though Guthrie and Brosnan agreed Bond is “a very physical role,” the host pointed to his portrayal of a London gang patriarch in Guy Ritchie’s new Paramount+ series MobLand as evidence he would be up for the task.
“That’s very kind of you to say,” Brosnan responded. “There’s great things you can do with AI as well, so there you have it. [But] I’m quite content the way it is. I love Mobland, and The Thursday Murder Club is coming out sometime this year.”
Of course, Brosnan played 007 from the mid-90s to the early 2000s in the films Golden Eye, Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, and Tomorrow Never Dies. Since Amazon recently took over creative control of the Bond franchise, Brosnan has frequently been asked to weigh in about its future during his press tour for MobLand.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he said it should be “a given” that any future Bond should be British. He’s also backed long-rumored frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the next Bond, telling Yahoo Entertainment that the actor “would be great.”
Brosnan currently stars in MobLand alongside Tom Hardy and Helen Mirren. He will also co-star with Mirren, Ben Kingsley, and David Tennant in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club.
@todayshow Would Pierce Brosnan ever return to his role as James Bond? “I think I could get away with it, yes. In a pinch,” Brosnan said. “Let’s see where the wind takes us … they know where to find me.” #TODAYShow
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