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Once in a while, there are little shockers from throughout the leisure business.
The most recent is that Amazon is buying inventive management over the James Bond franchise. That’s an enormous deal. Individuals have combined emotions.
Ludicrously good-looking actor Henry Cavill arrives for the premiere of Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 2” at The Paris Theatre in New York Metropolis on October 27, 2022. (Photograph Credit score: ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Ought to Henry Cavill be the brand new James Bond?
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are longtime Bond producers. There’s a new three way partnership, through which three events are co-owners of the franchise — whereas Amazon MGM has inventive management.
And, if Bezos’ followers have any say in it, that inventive management would begin with casting a proficient and absurdly handsome actor, Henry Cavill, to painting James Bond.
Beloved actor Henry Cavill attends “The Witcher” Season 3 UK Premiere at The Now Constructing at Outernet London on June 28, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photographs)
Along with the actor’s title, the replies crammed with pictures and GIFs of Henry Cavill.
Clearly, he’s a talented actor with an extended historical past of nuanced portrayals of several types of characters.
However, in a way, Cavill’s pictures and GIFs converse for themselves. He’s notoriously handsome — and is clearly not a type of actors who will get sizzling for like three years after which is merely “distinguished” thereafter. He’s nonetheless turning heads and attracting folks to screens effectively over a decade after most first heard of him.
The ever-dazzling Henry Cavill poses throughout the 2025 AACTA Awards on February 07, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Chris Hyde/Getty Photographs for AFI)
Do you know that Henry Cavill auditioned to play James Bond a few years in the past?
In 2006, the James Bond franchise did a little bit of a reboot with On line casino Royale. It starred Daniel Craig, who’s himself a beloved and terribly proficient actor.
Final yr, that movie’s director Martin Campbell spoke to Categorical UK and recalled Henry Cavill’s audition: “He looked great in the audition. His acting was tremendous.”
Campbell continued; “And look, if Daniel didn’t exist, Henry would have made an excellent Bond. He looked terrific, he was in great physical shape…very handsome, very chiseled. He just looked a little young at that time back then.”
Hypnotically photogenic Henry Cavill attends a press convention for “Argylle” on January 18, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Photographs)
Martin Campbell additionally weighed in on the concept of Henry Cavill being the subsequent James Bond now that Daniel Craig is finished with the position.
“Henry’s 40, so by the time he’s done the third one he’s going to be 50,” he reasoned. Henry Cavill was born in 1983.
“And anything beyond that’s two, three years per Bond,” Campbell reasoned. The director then affirmed: “He’s in good shape Henry, he’s a good guy. He did very well in the audition, but ironically he was too young.”
The incomparable Henry Cavill attends “The Witcher” Season 3 UK Premiere at The Now Constructing at Outernet London on June 28, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Photographs)
So he’s ‘too old’ to play Bond, however was beforehand ‘too young’ for the position?
It feels like Henry Cavill could have fallen into an age lure that has restricted numerous different actors within the leisure business.
It’s simply that the majority of these actors have been ladies — enjoying younger love pursuits after which these roles usually dry up till they’re sufficiently old to play “hot moms” till they metamorphize into enjoying my favourite position: badass, unfriendly grandmas (generally on the ripe-old age of 46).
Cavill is notoriously good wanting. Even feedback sections crammed nearly completely with heterosexual males are inclined to comment upon it. But it surely’s attainable that he’ll by no means play James Bond.
On the plus facet, he’ll doubtless preserve enjoying deeply nerdy roles that he prefers. Isn’t he engaged on Warhammer proper now? His dance card’s most likely fairly full.
