By Nobody knows quite how much longer we've got Daniel Craig for as James Bond, but we're all agreed that Pierce Brosnan is a solid shout for the caretaker job until a new full-timer's sorted out, aren't we? Give it Pierce 'til the end of the season, lift the mood at the club, maybe get a decent cup run out of it.
Brosnan would probably be up for it too, from the sound of his reminiscences about making GoldenEye and the intense work that went into making Sean Bean's death by impalement with a radio telescope look as convincing as possible.
"The most arduous fight was the one with Sean Bean, on the ladder over the giant radio telescope at the end," Brosnan told the Guardian. "He and I spent six weeks constructing the sequence, working on it during our lunch breaks and at the end of the day with a stunt coordinator."
Brosnan also recalled a padded set being built for the bathhouse fight between Bond and Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp, "so we could go at it pretty hard". Look, he's still got it! Arching your eyebrow and making saucy quips becomes a reflex after playing Bond for any length of time.
On that point, though, Brosnan said that he "didn’t want to get caught between what Sean [Connery] and Roger [Moore] had done", even if that's what he basically ended up doing that anyway.
"My take was a little bit of what both had brought to the role. I leant towards Sean's style, but I couldn't deny Roger because GoldenEye was in the tongue-in-cheek style people had become used to."
"Carrying myself as Bond was as much a mental as a physical thing," Brosnan went on. "You have to hold the stage. You go in to win, full tilt to the finish line." So, there you go. Brosnan's ready to pull a Rafa Benitez whenever you need him.
