The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Count_Lippe]

I changed my signature.

[Kristatos]

I changed my signature.

Nice to look at, but I do wonder if all these images and animated GIFs in signatures are partly responsible for the problems this site has been experiencing.

[Count_Lippe]

You think so?

BJ and I have had the moving images for many years, they're hosted on another site just like normal photos.

[bjmdds]

You think so?

BJ and I have had the moving images for many years, they're hosted on another site just like normal photos.

Correct Count. Nice to see you here as well as it has been almost 20 years we all know each other! My laughing horses have been on a long time. Something else is involved as the internet web keeps changing and becomes obsolete as soon as it is barely new so this website should readjust I guess to keep things going smoothly.

[bjmdds]

The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.-------this appears now often.

[kater23]

I’m with Count.Don’t think it’s a signature thing(though I have a basic one.)

[Kristatos]

Just wondering. I'm not a techie type, so I wouldn't know. It was just a hypothesis. I mean, these problems have been going on a long time.

[Count_Lippe]

Our signatures ruin the forum.

Sorry about this.

[Jake]

Our signatures ruin the forum.

There are worse fates than being ruined by Domino.

[bjmdds]

Our signatures ruin the forum.

There are worse fates than being ruined by Domino.

At the end:

[Jake]

At the end:

I once ****ed a woman who looked like Gert Frobe.

The point stands.

[Kristatos]

I once ****ed a woman who looked like Gert Frobe.

Possibly too much information.

[kater23]

I once ****ed a woman who looked like Gert Frobe.

Possibly too much information.

Oh,for sure!

[Jake]

I once ****ed a woman who looked like Gert Frobe.

Possibly too much information.

I edited out the original end of the sentence which read "...precisely because she looked like Gert Frobe."

Now THAT would've been some textbook oversharing.

(The point still stands.)

[James]

https://deadline.com/2026/06/james-bond ... 236964582/

‘James Bond’ Search Heats Up As Producers Begin Tapping Talent To Test For Role Of 007; Next Round Of Auditions To Take Place In August – The Dish

EXCLUSIVE: Fans of the James Bond franchise are getting closer to finding out who will next play the iconic spy for future installments. Sources tell Deadline that producers and director Denis Villeneuve have begun informing talent who have made the next round of auditions, which will occur later this summer. Villeneuve has been calling talent directly and while Deadline has not been able to confirm any names at this time sources say the auditions are set to take place in August.

As for how many actors will test in August, while one source says they expect producers to cast a wide net, the exact number of actors is unknown with some sources saying between 5-7, while others said in the teens.
Amazon MGM Studios, who is distributing and producing the pic, had no comment. General meetings have been going on with talent all the way back to when Amy Pascal and David Heyman were tapped as producers in spring of 2025. Nina Gold, who closed a deal in April to be the casting director on the film, has been meeting with actors for the past several weeks, but sources say those meetings were for lesser known names to see if anyone should be added to the list of prominent actors expected to get a call for the next round.

With those auditions wrapping, insiders say Villeneuve and producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman have started making contact with actors over the past week to inform them about the August auditions. Actors like Harris Dickinson, Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi fit the prototype of who producers are eyeing for this next leg of auditions, but again no names have been confirmed at this time. Though it still feels like we are a ways away from finding out who will play 007, the timing fits with the studio having their actor by the end of the year so that production can begin some time in 2027.

[Kristatos]

Feels like things are moving, albeit slowly.

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[James]

Sounds like October/November at the earliest for an announcement. At least Villeneuve seems to be on the job now. I hope he directs the final screentests like Martin Campbell, John Glen and Guy Hamilton.

[bjmdds]

Debbie McWilliams, the longtime James Bond casting director who helped cast three 007 actors, has dismissed much of the public speculation around Daniel Cr-egg's replacement. In a RadioTimes.com interview, McWilliams said most Bond casting rumors make her "die laughing." The comments have resurfaced as Amazon MGM Studios moves forward with the next James Bond film, which will be directed by Denis Villeneuve. Casting director Nina Gold is now leading the search for the next actor to play 007. McWilliams told RadioTimes.com that she does not pay much attention to the constant list of rumored Bond candidates. "I have a theory, which I've trotted out many times, is that when there's a gap in a newspaper, they fill it with a James Bond story, because they haven't got anything else to write about," she said. "Why people can't just wait and see, I don't know."

[James]

There's also a really long interview with Debbie McWilliams in the Independent. I haven't posted the whole thing but you can read it at the link. She basically says the Bond actor should be a relative unknown because that was her approach. This is odd because Dalton, Brosnan and Craig were hardly young unknown actors when they were cast as Bond. She was interesting about Daniel Craig and seems to confirm that neither Martin Campbell nor the studio wanted him.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 02958.html

I cast three James Bonds. None of the rumoured names are right

Rev up the Aston Martin – the Bond auditions are finally happening. Debbie McWilliams, who shaped the 007 films for four decades, tells Ellie Harrison about how the biggest choice in Hollywood gets made, her role in this slice of cinematic history, and what the future could hold for the mega-franchise


I’ve been expecting you, Mr Bond. It’s been seven years since Daniel Craig tossed the tux and officially announced his departure from the role, and five years since the last film, No Time to Die. During that time, the identity of the next James Bond has become nothing short of an international obsession – but now auditions have finally begun, with the second round set for August. Callum Turner is the supposed frontrunner, with Harris Dickinson and Jacob Elordi following close behind. But who will get the gig? It might be worth asking the one person who knows more than anyone about how to choose the perfect 007 – Debbie McWilliams, who cast the last three of them. She’s emphatic about the rumoured names. “I don’t want to see any of them as James Bond.”

McWilliams, now 74 and retired from casting, was at the heart of the Bond franchise for 40 years, from 1981’s For Your Eyes Only to 2021’s No Time to Die. Top casting director Nina Gold, who found stars for Game of Thrones and The Crown, is now in the role, but McWilliams has worked on 13 of the 25 Bond films, first with legendary producer Cubby Broccoli, who co-founded the franchise, and then with his daughter Barbara. She cast Timothy Dalton (the intense Bond), Pierce Brosnan (the suave Bond), and Daniel Craig (the edgy, blonde Bond). Outside of 007, she also happened to “discover” Daniel Day-Lewis, plucking him from obscurity in 1985 for his breakout hit My Beautiful Launderette, and actually thought he’d have made a great Bond: “He has that stature and enigma, but it’s so not his thing, he’s such an intellectual, he would have driven himself completely round the bend.”

For McWilliams, sex appeal and fame aren’t important when it comes to the perfect Bond. In fact, fame is a hindrance – so it doesn’t help to have starred in a zeitgeisty drama like Euphoria or married a pop superstar in Sicily. “It is absolutely essential that he retains a total enigma,” she tells me, cradling a coffee in a south London cafe. Both Bond the character, and the person playing him, have to have an unknowability, she says – and that’s why none of those touted names will work. “I don’t want to see any of them as Bond because we now know so much about them,” she says of Turner and co. “We want to know as little about them personally as possible, because that’s what spies are. We don’t need to know where he goes shopping or who his parents are, or where he lives. We never want to see him at home. And a vital element of the whole thing is his job description. He’s licensed to kill, and we have to believe that he can do that. If you don’t, then you’ve lost the audience.”

McWilliams was drawn to Dalton, Brosnan and Craig because they were fairly under the radar. “Timothy and Pierce weren’t particularly well known,” she says. “Daniel had had a career in independent films and a fairly colourful romantic life beforehand, but he wasn’t a household name, and that helps enormously.” For the next Bond, McWilliams wants “to see somebody who is completely out of the blue”.

If McWilliams had asked the world who should play Bond, Craig would never have been cast, and we’d never have had one of the best Bonds of all time – someone who swerved expectations and brought a raw, rough, bleeding, dangerous darkness back to 007. “He was such an unpopular choice,” says McWilliams. “Nobody supported it. Not the studio. Not the director.” She describes the press conference announcing him as the star – where he arrived via a Royal Marine speedboat on the Thames, in a sleek suit and a life jacket – as “completely disastrous”. “I’ve never seen anybody look as uncomfortable as Daniel did that day. It was awful. And all these reports came out, that he couldn’t drive, he couldn’t do this, he couldn’t do that, and I have a theory that this totally spurred him on. He thought, ‘I’m going to show you bas***ds,’ and he did. And everybody went, ‘Oh my God, isn’t he wonderful?’” She chuckles. “So don’t ask the people who they want, because they won’t know.”

[Kristatos]

Dalton and Craig, maybe. I hadn't heard of them when they were cast, even if I had seen films they were in. You would have had to prompt me with "the guy who played Prince Barin in Flash Gordon" or whatever. Brosnan was already the favourite to play Bond in 1987, and it was a surprise when Dalton was cast. Besides, she's retired now, and doesn't get a say any more.

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