 Of course, most Bond fans will be aware that Pierce Brosnan originally would have already been casted as James Bond as far back as 1986, the star in 1987's The Living Daylights, had it not been for his sudden renewed contract on Remington Steel. You probably might also be aware that Christopher Lee, Ian Fleming's cousin, was asked the star as Dr. No for the first Bond movie of the same name. And so every Bond film has stories of actors that never ended up in certain films. So as the sixth edition in my one in every Bond movie series, we're now taking a look at one uncasted actor or actress in every Bond film. Let's go. Before Sean Connery ended up landing the iconic role of James Bond 007, many other actors were considered. Among these was British actor Richard Johnson. Reportedly, Johnson turned down the part. It's kind of funny to think what the world would have been like had he not done that. He would have been the very first James Bond 007. He certainly has the classic look and when you look at him in Deadlier Than the Mill, yeah, you can totally see he would have been pretty good for the part. However, Johnson is first to admit that he would have never lived up to the potential that he thinks Connery reached with the part. I guess I can only agree, but we will never know. Many actresses were considered for the part of Tatiana Romanova before Daniela Bianchi eventually landed the part. Among these was Tania Male. She was actually half Russian to begin with, so you could say she was suitable for the part. They didn't go with her because of her provincial English accent. It's kind of ironic when you think about it considering Daniela Bianchi ended up being dubbed for the part anyway, who says they couldn't have done that with Tania Male? At least she showed up in the next Bond film, as Tilly Massison. It's hard to find anyone who wouldn't claim that Gert Froh was casted superbly as Arik Goldfinger. It's hard to imagine anyone else in the part. However, you can easily find lots of other people in the part that were also considered. Among these was Fedor Baikal, whose audition tapes can easily be found here on YouTube if you want to watch them. He's not the only actor you can find screen tests of for the part, but I think he's the one who did a pretty decent job. I wouldn't say he tops Gert Froh, but he certainly has an interesting take on the character. Did I ever mention that Claudino G as Domino is really hot, definitely superbly casted for the part? We all know that Luciana Paluzzi was auditioning for the role as well, but she ended up being Viona Volpe. But did you know that Raquel Welch almost landed the part? If it wasn't for a simple scheduling conflict, supposedly Raquel Welch would have been the one starring alongside Sean Connery in that bikini. Welch went on to star in Fantastic Voyage at the time, mostly starring in a white jumpsuit, but later did go on to admit he would have rather gone to the beach with James Bond. Likely already mentioned in one of these episodes, but before Bond's arch-nemesis Blofeld was played by Donald Pleasence, originally most of his scenes were already recorded with Jan Werig in the part. You can find various behind-the-scenes photos and stills of him in the part. I never saw any footage of him though, but it would have been interesting to see what he was like in the part, but supposedly the filmmakers didn't think he was menacing enough and ended up recasting him and went with Donald Pleasence instead and the rest is history. One of the most respected and well-regarded Bond girls in the entire franchise is Diana Rigg as Tracy in Majesties. She was mostly casted to bring some star power next to the unknown George Lazenby. But did you know that Bridget Bardot was originally invited for the role as well? Much like Raquel Welch, another iconic actress that never made it as a Bond girl. It's interesting to think what she would have been like in the part, but because she already starred in Shalako opposite Sean Connery, the deal supposedly fell through. Speaking of memorable actresses, lots of sources say that Jane Fonda was in the running as Tiffany Case in Diamonds of Forever. Some sources say she simply was considered, others say she turned the role down. But whatever the case, we ended up with Jill St John, leaving us once again to just speculate what it would have been like had she starred alongside Sean Connery. Before Jane Seymour landed the part of Solitaire in Live and Let Die, Diana Ross nearly starred alongside Roger Moore in the part. But because the producers feared racial tensions, they ended up wanting to go with a white actress instead. How times have changed? I don't know, when I read the book Live and Let Die, I always picture Solitaire as a black person myself. I think it fits the theme of the whole story more and it makes sense considering her Haitian background. They ended up casting the CIA agent Rosie Carver as a black actress instead. I wish at least that role would have gone to Diana Ross. He has a powerful weapon that originally was going to go to Jack Palance. Screenwriter Tom Mankovich originally had him in mind to star Escaramanga. The guy Hamilton did have lunch with him discussing the possibilities for the part. Eventually he turned it down because he was going to star as Dracula in a TV movie. Kind of ironic when you consider that eventually we ended up with another Dracula in the part. Before Barbara Black went on to get the iconic role of Anya Omosafa, Agent XXX in The Spy Who Loved Me, Lois Chels was initially the frontrunner. But supposedly she took a break from acting at the time and her agent even informed the producers that she had retired. Of course that wasn't the case and we still got to see what she was like as the leading lady in the next movie in a very similar role at that. Initially British actor James Mason was casted as Hugo Drax in Moonraker. But because Moonraker was an Anglo-French production, the filmmakers had to comply to certain criteria and thus French actor Michael Lonsdale was casted instead. Reportedly Italian actress Ornella Muti was Cubby Broccoli's first choice to play Melina Havelach in For Your Eyes Only after he saw her in Flass Gordon in 1980. Unfortunately she turned the role down, something she later admitted she regretted. Another leading man in Flass Gordon, Timothy Dalton of course went on to become James Bond a couple of years later, but unfortunately we as the public never got to see what it would have been like had Muti become a Bond girl. Remember when it was uncertain between Spectre and No Time to Die whether or not Daniel Craig would return as Bond? While it was also uncertain whether or not Roger Moore would return between For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. But unlike Barbara Broccoli, Cubby just went on with it and he started auditioning several actors for the role of his leading man. This included James Brolin who did an audition you can easily find on YouTube. Of course Roger Moore did end up returning for Octopussy and we never got to see whether or not Brolin would end up becoming the next James Bond. But honestly I'm in the camp that's relieved that this never happened. I'm glad Roger Moore returned to go up in the Battle of the Bonds against Connery in 83. By 1985's A Few to a Kill the filmmakers felt they needed to appeal to the MTV generation and so they had David Bowie on their mind as their main villain Max Zorin. It's honestly really easy to imagine and you can tell what kind of look and feel they were going for with their villain. I mean David Bowie paired up with Grace Jones, it would have been such an eccentric villain duo. Something is of course already still is with Christopher Walken in the part, who is terrific and I'm glad he got to do it. But I'm just saying, it's so easy to imagine what this film would have been like had Bowie not turned the role down. James Brolin is not the only actor you can find a screen test for, you can also find one for Sam Neal who auditioned for the part of Bond in 1986 for the Living Daylights. He never got the part and reportedly he stated he never wanted it anyway. Supposedly his agent pressed him to try out for an audition. My friends call me Tanya. My friends call me Bond. James Bond. You look at that, oh my gosh, that is so cruel to play that. I think he must be one of the only male actors in the world who didn't actually want the role. Talk us through that. I really did not want that part. And my friend Pierce Brosnan wanted it so much so you know it was really contrary and I felt so awkward all that day that we made that thing. It went on and on and on but I'm so relieved they offered it to someone else and we woke them to it because you really don't want to be the Bond that no one likes, you know. That's a fate worse than death. The filmmakers were considering to bring back John Rice Davis to reprise his role as Pushkin for License to Kill. But Davis himself felt that the story of License to Kill really didn't call for his character to be in there. And as much as I liked him as Pushkin, I kinda have to agree with him. Judy Dance was among the ingredients that helped bring Bond to the 90s with her terrifically portraying the first female M in the series. But did you know that originally Glenda Jackson was offered the part? However, Jackson found the part to be too dull, mostly being a desk job. It's really hard to imagine what the world would have been like had Jackson taken on the part. Would she still have been M by the time of Skyfall, laying in Daniel Craig's arms when she was about to die? It's one of those crazy Bond what if scenarios. Me personally, I think Judy Dance is the best M in the franchise and I'm relieved we live in a universe where she did get to do it. It's quite well known in Bond fandom that Pierce Brosnan and Terry Hatcher really didn't get along on set of Tomorrow Never Dies. Pierce Brosnan wanted Monica Balutzi, who reportedly did audition for the part. Daphna Deckers, who played Garver's PR girl, did state in several Dutch interviews that she was seated next to Monica Balutzi when auditioning for her part. I think Balutzi would have been so much more believable as a former flame of James Bond and she's just way more exotic than Terry Hatcher in my opinion. To me it's definitely one of the bigger missed opportunities on this list. Fortunately, we still got to see her as a Bond girl a couple of decades later, Inspector. A strong audition for the part of Bernard for the world is not enough. He was so happy he memorized all of his lines that he went out for a night of drinking. The next day on his actual audition he was so hungover that he screwed up the audition. The ironic part of the story, the guy he was out drinking with was future Bond actor Daniel Craig. Melle Berry got to homage Ursula Andres' iconic ocean walk in Dine of the Day, playing Jinx. But did you notice was almost Whitney Houston getting this part? If rumors are to be believed, she was seriously considered by the time of the casting in 2001. Apparently, she caught the filmmakers' attention from her roles in The Preacher's Wife and The Bodyguard. Very little is known about the truth to these rumors, though. Daniel Craig successfully auditioned for the part of James Bond in 2005 and became the sixth 007 for Casino Royale. Apparently, the other frontrunner he was competing with at the time was Henry Caffill. Director Martin Campbell stated that Caffill did a terrific audition and I really hope that footage services someday so we can see quite what he was like playing Bond. Maybe like Brosnan, he gets to finally get his hands on the role somewhere in the future, but for now he's just another actor that never got to be James Bond. Quantum of Solace had one of the more bizarre rumors on the list where apparently Al Pacino was rumored to play one of the villains and they think he was probably going to be playing General Medrano, while other rumors state he was just going to be having some sort of cameo in the film. Now I'm a big fan of Pacino's work, but I'm not sure if I necessarily ever wanted to see him in a Bond film, especially not in Quantum of Solace. During production of Skyfall, Sam Mendes flirted with the idea of bringing in Sean Connery to star as Kin Cade. I mean, it's very easy to imagine. Welcome to Scotland. I'll do my best. Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. But apart from flirting with the idea, it never came to fruition, because Sam Mendes concluded that bringing in Sean Connery would likely take you out of the movie. And even if they did bring in Connery, I seriously doubt he would have said yes. Chew Hotel Agio Four was on the shortlist to appear as a villain in Spectre, and fans believe he was probably being eyed to be Blofeld. At the times, the media cited him as the top choice to play the villain for Bond 24. Of course, none of this ever came to fruition, so who knows, maybe in the future we can expect him to appear as a Bond villain. And lastly, in very similar fashion to Spectre, before production of No Time to Die, Harry Potter actress Helena Bonham was heavily rumored to be playing the main villain in the film. And these rumors mostly came in at the time that Danny Boyle was still at the helm of Bond 25, and very little was known about the script or the roles that were going to be in there. I personally would really like to see her as a Bond villain in the future, so I hope Eon keeps her on the list. And that's it for one Uncasted Actor or Actress in every Bond film. For this video I need to credit a few people that helped me compile the list and pointed me into the right directions with a lot of these actors and actresses. Thank you guys for all your help. I hope you once again enjoyed this video and found it informative. Please like if you did, subscribe if you didn't yet and see you guys in the next video.