[DMCForum] off topic: Pierce Brosnan is NOT James Bond anymore

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NEW YORK - A single, surprising phone call and it was over. That's how  
Pierce Brosnan says he learned that his services as James Bond would no longer  be 
required. 


"One phone call, that's all it took!" the 52-year-old  actor tells 
Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug. 19 issue.

Brosnan  starred in four Bond films. He says that before they stopped 
negotiations, the  producers had invited him back for a fifth time.

"You know, the movie  career for me really started with Bond," says Brosnan, 
acknowledging that by the  time "GoldenEye" premiered in 1995, he was already 
42.

He then starred as  007 in "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "The World Is Not 
Enough" (1999) and "Die  Another Day" (2002).

His departure from the role was a "titanic jolt to  the system," says 
Brosnan, followed by "a great sense of calm."

"I  thought. ... I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them 
or  anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense 
of  liberation."

Brosnan says he's grateful to have had the role, but adds:  "It never felt 
real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond.  Because you'd have 
these stupid one-liners â which I loathed â and I always felt  phony doing 
them."

He plays a foulmouthed, skirt-chasing hit man in the  upcoming film "The 
Matador."

"(For this) to come on the heels of my  departure from the world of Bond is 
sweet grace, to play this one as a farewell  to that chapter in time â it 
certainly wasn't planned."
 
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