10 Times Two Actors Perfectly Executed The Same Character

Ian Fleming created the world’s most famous British spy James Bond when he wrote Casino Royale in 1953. He continued to write many more novels with Agent 007 at the heart of his espionage stories, and in 1962 Dr. No was brought to the screen with Sean Connery in the heroic role. Connery was suave and sophisticated, and was the perfect casting for the role at the time. That said, it’s fair to say that the portrayal and overall misogynistic characterisation that fit in the sixties certainly raises eyebrows in today’s society.

There have of course been numerous actors stepping into the role since Connery, including Roger Moore, who provided a slightly more tongue in cheek take during his seven-film run, as well as George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. But the films started to feel a little formulaic and stale by the time Brosnan finished his turn with Die Another Day in 2002. With the launch of a new bond in Daniel Craig, the series was taken back to Fleming’s Casino Royale in 2006 with a grittier origin story.

Craig’s performance was the finest of the character that we’d seen since the early Connery days, and he brought James Bond firmly into the modern action movie age with a further four films, including Skyfall (2012) and his final outing No Time To Die (2021), which would bring a definitive closure to his version of the character’s arc.