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There is no necessity for a movie actor, in his private life, to exhibit any behavioral resemblances to the characters he plays
National Review, Nov 21, 2005
There is no necessity for a movie actor, in his private life, to exhibit any behavioral resemblances to the characters he plays. Marlon Brando (The Godfather) was not a man of intense family loyalties; Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) is not an idiot savant; James Mason (Lolita) was not a child molester; Charlton Heston (The Ten Commandments') claims no extraordinary relationship with God.
We should therefore, perhaps, be neither shaken nor stirred by the news that the latest actor to play the role of Bond, James Bond, hates handguns. Says 37-year-old Daniel Craig: "Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other." Sporting issues aside, this misses the point that, as James Bond himself understood perfectly well, there are people in the world who need shooting. As for those martinis, Mr. Craig says he likes his neither shaken nor stirred, but straight up. The wonder here is that a chap just 37 years old even knows what a martini is.
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