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[Seannery]

It's all bull.

Exactly what most of us (myself included, I'm sure) said when rumours first surfaced about Craig being considered. Exactly what most of us probably thought when we first heard the name "Goran Visnjic". Exactly what most of us thought when we saw those first Ewan Stewart stories. Well, okay, Ewan Stewart - that was all bull, but you get my point.

He has no career other than some plays, makes Craig look and speak like a perfect Bond in contrast and he has NO movie career but he turns down Bond---only Owen, Jackman and Rikki? were offered the role, yeah right. You want to bet he doesn't get Thor like he claims OR any other big roles--why then would he pass on Bond. He didn't--it's publicity. Obviously false publicity.

[Loomis]

He has no career other than some plays....

And Alex O'Lachlan is a major star? Perhaps Travolta had good reasons for turning down Bond. How on earth can we say for certain that he was never considered, given that most of the people Eon did look at seem to have been utterly bizarre and "left field" candidates? They'll look at people called Ioan Gruffudd and Goran Visnjic, but not at people called Rikki Lee Travolta? They'll consider obscure Australians, a Croatian and a 22-year-old Brit, but not an American?

[Pussfeller]

Apart from his grizzled looks, Craig is exactly the sort of actor you would expect EON to cast. He's British, tough, cool, lean, deep-voiced, laconic, etc.

Rikki Lee Travolta, on the other hand, is a (justly) underrated American model and dancer with a single IMDb credit to his name (he was the double for "Ed" in Edtv). Apparently he used to be a child actor, so you know he's a winner. The closest this man has come to stardom is acting in community theater (and judging from his hair, he makes a living posing for the covers of romance novels). Most tellingly, he seems to be absolutely shameless when it comes to self-promotion. His "novel", My Fractured Life, was published in 2002 by Infinity Publishing, a vanity press. Now it looks like he and his agent have cooked up some utter BS about him "declining" the role of Bond. Gosh, do you think it might be a cynical attempt to advance his own career? Hmmmm.

I must say I admire his moxie. We'll probably be hearing from him again in ten years, when the role is once more up for grabs. "Mr. Travolta thanks his fans for sending him three million copies of The Man with the Red Tattoo, but he regrets to announce that Bond doesn't fit into his current career plans. P.S. Make sure to catch Rikki Lee in The Music Man, March 14-18 at the Granada Theatre! Come for the show, stay for the pie!"

[Loomis]

But doesn't his moxie and shameless self-promotion seem Lazenbyesque? (And also his lack of big screen experience.) And look how far Lazenby ended up getting in the casting process!

[Pussfeller]

Yes, but I don't believe Lazenby was a bald-faced lying scumbag. Apart from that, yes, there is a similarity.