Australian actor Sam Worthington has revealed he was within the operating for the position of James Bond however did not impress casting administrators together with his “awful” audition.
The 46-year-old Avatar star sat down with Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa on Friday morning, the place he revealed he auditioned for the 2006 movie Casino Royale, which in the end marked Daniel Craig’s debut as 007.
Worthington mentioned the display take a look at concerned sporting a tuxedo and performing out a scene from the ’60s Bond film, From Russia With Love, during which Sean Connery starred.
“So you [have to] walk in, and there’s the girl in the bed. You charm her … And I couldn’t get the killer of Bond down, I just couldn’t get the charm, I couldn’t charm her. The suit didn’t fit man,” Worthington mentioned.
Charm wasn’t the one factor he struggled with.
Worthington, who additionally revealed Sam Neill and Mel Gibson each additionally tried to attain the position in some unspecified time in the future, mentioned his makes an attempt on the spy agent’s British accent had been “awful”.
“I said, ‘If I do an Australian I’m gonna be the next George Lazenby,’” Worthington mentioned, referencing the Australian actor who famously took on Bond in only one movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969.
“He only did one and I didn’t want to be like that. So I tried British. It was awful.
“I sounded like Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins. I remember [director] Martin [Campbell] going, ‘Just do your normal voice. It’s all cool man.’”
Just a number of quick years later, Worthington would hit the jackpot with a separate blockbuster – James Cameron’s bold Avatar – which was launched in 2009 and stays the highest-grossing movie of all time, with the sequel The Way Of Water at present in cinemas.
Oscar-winner Matt Damon, 52, has beforehand opened up about turning down the lead in Avatar earlier than Worthington was solid, sacrificing a pay packet which might have finally amounted to $US292 million ($A422 million).
Speaking on the Cannes Film Festival final yr, Damon mentioned: “I was offered a little movie called Avatar…
“James Cameron offered me 10 per cent of it. I will go down in history – you will never meet an actor who turned down more money.”
Meanwhile, followers are nonetheless eagerly awaiting news of which actor will rating the position of Bond within the subsequent movie, after Craig bowed out of the spy franchise following his fifth and ultimate film, No Time To Die.
Recently, it was reported that Bullet Train star Aaron Taylor-Johnson has emerged because the unlikely frontrunner.
