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Why Many Actors Aren’t Willing to Become the Next James Bond · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Drew's Elba was rumored
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Speaker 1: to be the next Double O seven for quite some time,
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Speaker 1: but it recently made comments that seemed to suggest he's
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Speaker 1: no longer interested. And while it's without question that playing
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Speaker 1: James Bond is one of the most coveted roles in
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Speaker 1: all of Hollywood for nearly any actor, the producers behind
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Speaker 1: the film just revealed a variety it still takes quite
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Speaker 1: a bit of commencing by them to get an actor
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Speaker 1: to sign on. For one very good reason time Barbara
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Speaker 1: Broccoli explains, it's still gonna be a couple of years off,
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Speaker 1: and when we do cast Bond, it's a ten to
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Speaker 1: twelve year commitment. Most actors, we'll have to think, do
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Speaker 1: I really want that? Not everybody wants to do that.
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Speaker 1: It was hard enough getting Daniel Craig to do it,
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Speaker 1: and he was in his early thirties at the time.
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Speaker 1: A lot of actors think, oh, yeah, it'd be fun
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Speaker 1: to do one. Well, that ain't gonna work. It's a
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Speaker 1: big investment for us to to bring out a new Bond.
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Speaker 1: So the question remains, who will be the next Bond?
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Speaker 1: Will wait and see. That's Direct from Hollywood,