James Bond star Roger Moore would have left room for a younger actor had he not struck a \u201cnice deal\u201d for A View to a Kill. <\/p>\n
While the Ian Fleming character has been passed through the hands of capable, serious actors like Sean Connery<\/a> and Daniel Craig<\/a>, Moore<\/a> brought a lighter charm to the series. Despite this and his consistency in the role of James Bond<\/a>, he felt it was time to quit the series when his co-star\u2019s mother remembered watching him on television as a child. Writing in his book, My Word Is My Bond, Moore suggested it was during A View to a Kill that he knew he was too old for the role. Fans hailed Moore\u2019s reason for stepping aside as Bond and introducing audiences to his successor, Timothy Dalton. Though Dalton would only last two films, it seemed to be the right time for Moore to hang up portraying the secret agent. <\/p>\n Moore would say: \u201cWell, the leading ladies were young enough to be my granddaughter, and it becomes disgusting.\u201d Bond\u2019s love interest in A View to a Kill was Stacey Sutton, played by Tanya Roberts, who was thirty-five at the time. Moore was fifty-seven at the time of making A View to a Kill. <\/p>\n Later, he would say he felt too old to be \u201changing around women in their early twenties without it appearing creepy\u201d and that Roberts\u2019 mother remembered watching him on television as a child. Fans were left agreeing with Moore, with some suggesting he was \u201ctoo old\u201d for the series by Octopussy. <\/p>\n Some suggested A View to a Kill was the perfect time for a \u201cyounger actor to take the role of Bond,\u201d though that would come in 1987 with Dalton in The Living Daylights. A post to the r\/JamesBond subreddit reads: \u201cHe was clearly too old for the part if he wasn\u2019t already in the previous two films. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he particularly needed the money at that point. There was no compelling reason for EON to bring him back other than just playing it safe. \u00a0I mean, going up against an\u00a0\u00dcbermensch\u00a0in Max Zorin would have been an opportune moment to have a younger actor take the role of Bond.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans have their theories on why Moore would return to the series. One person wrote: \u201cMoney, I\u2019d imagine. If I felt physically up for it, I probably wouldn\u2019t turn down another payday doing something I enjoy. The better question is why EON didn\u2019t consider recasting more strongly after Octopussy stood its ground against NSNA.\u201d<\/p>\n Another added: \u201cOctopussy was a hit, and I think he genuinely enjoyed making those films. Apparently, almost everyone loved working with him as well.\u201d A third shared: \u201cGlen & Moore\u2019s idea was to make Bond\u2019s age a theme in the film, similar to Never Say Never Again. <\/p>\n \u201cCubby was resistant to pinning down Bond\u2019s age, and nixed it as being an overt element of the plot (comes through in the subtext, though). He also ignored Moore\u2019s request for older leading ladies.\u201d<\/p>\n 1983\u2019s Never Say Never Again would see Sean Connery return to the series, albeit not in an EON production, over a decade after he had last portrayed Bond, in 1971\u2019s Diamonds Are Forever. <\/p>\n Moore would himself share why he returned to the series for A View to a Kill. Writing in his book, he confirmed: \u201cAt fifty-seven, I felt a little long in the tooth\u2026 but I was pretty fit and still able to remember lines. A rather nice deal was agreed with my agent, and once again I slipped into the tuxedo\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Bond star Roger Moore would have left room for a younger actor had he not struck a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}