Pierce Brosnan on Letterman (1985 )

[broadshoulder]

I have always had a sneaking suspiscion that Pierces' career is really down to his looks. His personality isnt great in this.

[RJBC5199]

@jamajezzie so your saying pierce would've played license to kill?

[jamajezzie]

would have been Bond in the 80's if stupid NBC and the show Remington Steele would have let him out of his contract. They told Bronson he could do Bond because they cancelled Remington Steele but at the last minute they changed their minds, decided not to cancel it. So he was stuck. NBC did that chit just to screw him because after Remington was uncancelled they only did a couple of episodes and then cancelled it for good. By the time they did this another actor had already got cast as bond.

[tubeman123100]

Brosnan has amazing charm, you don't see it a lot of his films where he tended to downplay his confident side, but when he played Remington Steele he could really do charm like few actors ever have.

[JanetNeuer]

Its so sad that she died.

[18decman]

Brosnan is the best bond In my opinion

[andyrooney12]

Everybody I know talks about Sean Connory as being the ideal James Bond but when I think about James Bond I think Pierce Brosnan...I read all of the Ian Flemming novels and I love the James Bond story. What a shame they got a blond guy to be James Bond...I was pretty upset when I heard that Brosnan would no longer be James Bond.

[inrwizards]

@andyrooney12 wow the hair upsets u

craig is a much better bond. has the right attitude for it

brosnan is better in other films, like the ghost writer. he may make a good bond physically, but cant handle the persona

[inrwizards]

lol not a shred of truth in that. thats like asking al pacino if hes gonna play a gangster and he answers bulshit. glad hes done other things besides bond latley though

[Riddler95]

Same here.

[cablecar830]

@andyrooney12 I completely agree with that. Pierce Brosnan is the best James Bond there ever was. craig has absolutely nothing on Pierce Brosnan

[MrLunitunz]

@andyrooney12 The way Bond is described is practically a word-for-word description of Pierce Brosnan, particularly the way he was doing his hair in the eighties so it fell into a vertical 'comma' on his right side.

The way they let Pierce Brosnan go was totally classless. They gave him the most bullshit script ever, he acted in it dutifully, Brosnan was always solid as Bond, and then they just replaced him when they really should've given him a decent script and a second chance.

[charlieiscool1000]

@andyrooney12 No you are wrong Pierce Brosnan looks like the ideal Bond in terms of his image but if you read closely to the Novels you would know that Daniel craig is much closer to the character of james bond than people give him credit for Brosnan was good in his day but his age has passed now weather Bond is blonde or not has nothing to do with how the character acts or behaves.

[ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD]

I wish Brosnan got the part of James Bond back then, he could have saved us all from Timothy Dalton.

[17jun1989]

@ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD Are you crazy Timothy Dalton saved the 007 Franchise from Roger 'Poor'. Timothy Dalton read and studied Nealy all of Ian Flemming's Bond Novels.

[MrLunitunz]

@17jun1989 Dalton was great. Brosnan was great. Brosnan was better. But MGM marketing department has a nasty habit of scapegoating the last guy to play Bond as the reason why the franchise hadn't particularly sold. The reason Dalton's films didn't sell wasn't because he was bad, but because viewers were really burnt out after it having been crapfest after crapfest with Roger Moore. Their scapegoating of Pierce for Die Another Day was just classless. After all, he didn't write it.

[ChapterVIII09]

has brosnan been drinking before this interview cus he's kind of slirring his words and acting occasionally jolly

[lorrisegraves]

This can't be 1995!

[klmom9405]

Yes, I like him much better now. I think, at this point, he was just starting to see fame, and had to adjust to it. -- a little bit of ego here!

[thelordzed]

He was very different back then. He wasn't Bond-like yet at all. Notice how he talks, looks, dresses on this interview, etc... the influence of the 80's... one could even say he could be under the effect of drugs as well, as many artists and stars used to be in those years. I'm a great fan of the Pierce Brosnan we know today, but this '80s/leather jacket rockstar on powder' is rather disappointing. I'm glad he is who he is today! He's second only to Connery as Bond.

[Venglishful]

too much Jonny TOdd, very sweet and strong

[klassetompa]

85 right? NOT 95....

[Nancy99999]

@klassetompa No, it's definitely 85. He's way too young looking.

[gocsa]

Wow, I didn't know there were already rumors of him being the next Bond back then.