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05-04-01 news
Brosnan barely made Le Carre's cut...

Author John Le Carre was initially opposed to the idea of casting Irish actor Pierce Brosnan as the seedy British spy in the film adaptation of his novel The Tailor of Panama. Le Carre disliked The Thomas Crown Affair and is bored by the James Bond films, he told the Los Angeles Times.

But he quickly changed his mind after meeting Brosnan in the California town of Ojai. "When I walked with Pierce, I thought there was so much of a man there," he said. "With his classical training and background, he saw the part as a showcase for rage. It is daring for him to go against the Bond image. He made a fool of Bond in the post-Cold War world with this role. He removed the hypocritical padding from Bond to reveal him in his nakedness."

In the meantime Brosnan's old rival from his last Bond, Robert Carlyle, who has appeared in mainly dramatic roles since The Full Monty, is returning to comedy.

The Scottish actor is to play an out-of-luck British director in Das Cowboy, about the making of a western movie full of colourful characters. An Italian porn queen, a Japanese Samurai and an American cowboy star hired out of a Los Angeles retirement home all feature. Filming will take place in Spain and London.

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