On last night's live watchalong of GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan – the Bond with the kindest eyes – revealed much about the Nineties-era 007, and it seemed everyone wanted in on the star's turn on the Walther-PPK. Even Quentin Tarantino.
Long after the 1995 Bond hit wrapped production, Brosnan revealed that the director's people got in touch with his people to talk about a spy film that never came to fruition. But several rounds of martinis did.
"It was after Kill Bill Vol. 2, and he wanted to meet me, so I went up to Hollywood one day from the beach, and I met him at the Four Seasons," said the 66-year-old. "I got there at 7pm, I like to be punctual. 7:15 came around, no Quentin, he was upstairs doing press. Someone sent over a martini, so I had a martini, and I waited till 7:30, and I thought, where the heck is he? Word came down, apologies, so I thought, okay, I'll have another martini."
Eventually however, the Pulp Fiction writer did turn up, at which point Brosnan admits he was "fairly smokered" – and Tarantino decided to top the actor up with more apple martinis. Soon enough, "we were [both] fairly smokered".
"He was pounding the table, saying you're the best James Bond, I wanna do James Bond, and it was very close quarters in the restaurant and I thought, please calm down, but we don't tell Quentin Tarantino to calm down," said Brosnan.
"He wanted to do James Bond, and I went back to the shop and told them but it wasn't mean to be. No Quentin Tarantino for James Bond." Instead, Brosnan finished his tenure on Die Another Day. Which, under the guiding hand of the Inglourious Basterds auteur, may've meant samurai swords, an air hostess-turned-world saver and a Bond far too foul-mouthed for the tender ears of Judi Dench.
"That would be a good one to watch," said Brosnan. We're inclined to agree.
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bystander007 on April 20th, 2020 at 12:03 UTC »
Am I the only one who saw that picture and thought "Damn, Brosnan would make a good bond villain now."
carlsaganblessyou on April 20th, 2020 at 11:33 UTC »
Two men got drunk and talked about doing something together they never actually did.
Jeez, that never happens.
ELB2001 on April 20th, 2020 at 11:20 UTC »
The real question: what role would Sam Jackson play