Nacelle Company CEO Brian Volk-Weiss talks the latest season of Icons Unearthed, which dives into to the making of a franchise and Bond casting.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Icons Unearthed is back again with Icons Unearthed: James Bond. Each season, Icons Unearthed searches for a new angle on a pop culture mainstay and brings it to life through brand-new interviews, deep research, and snappy editing.
Whenever that's the case, I always try to find an interesting and unique way in, and what I zeroed in on was basically this really interesting zone of how these people get cast and the ramifications of the casting. It wasn't about, “Connery is Connery, and Moore is Moore, and Brosnan is Brosnan.” The question we asked ourselves is, “Why Connery over everybody else?” And then, it gets more and more and more complicated every time they have to recast.
I'm sure you try to be impartial, but I imagine you some sense of how you think the story is going to go when you hear it. How did all of this match up with what your expectations might have been? Brian Volk-Weiss: The craziest story from the point of view of the actor is definitely George Lazenby, because he was lying about everything the whole time. He conned his way in. He literally just lied and lied and lied and lied. I even think, to a certain degree, they knew he was lying, and they liked that he was lying because it was kind of like a James Bond thing. Lazenby definitely kind of alludes to that; they understood him, and that's why he got the job.
One of the things that I noticed about Bond, and this is in the series, for sure, is [that] Bond is a core sample of Western civilization over a half-century. The obvious things to point to: M goes from being a man to a woman, Moneypenny goes from being kind of a dumb, sarcastic, worshiping, “Oh my god, I love James Bond” [kind of person] to [becoming someone who] can keep up with him. A couple of times she’s gone out into the field, which always cracks me up.
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