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Jackman turns down Bond role
Stuff ^ | August 17, 2005 | Annabel Crabb

Posted on 08/17/2005 10:53:32 AM PDT by EveningStar

After months of negotiations with the producers of the James Bond films, Australian front-runner Hugh Jackman has refused a three-film deal to play the smooth-talking agent.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 007; bond; hughjackman; jackman; jamesbond; whocares

1 posted on 08/17/2005 10:53:35 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Well phooee.
He was one of the few actors out there that I thought could keep the series going without sending it into another 'Dalton-Abyss'. Great choice, too bad he declined.


2 posted on 08/17/2005 10:55:50 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: EveningStar

I glanced at the headline..I thought it was Michael Jackson...


3 posted on 08/17/2005 10:56:27 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: ken5050

bond boys instead of bond girls

ewwww


4 posted on 08/17/2005 10:59:46 AM PDT by zahal724 (I own a lumber company? Want some wood?)
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To: EveningStar

Guy's a big homo. No loss.


5 posted on 08/17/2005 11:01:20 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: EveningStar

Oh, what the hell...I'll take it.


6 posted on 08/17/2005 11:29:22 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: EveningStar



I like him but I can't imagine him as a Bond after seeing his other movies.


7 posted on 08/17/2005 11:41:58 AM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: cowboyway

I wonder if they would take me? I don't talk TOO southern... And I can shoot and drive reeeeel good.


8 posted on 08/17/2005 11:56:49 AM PDT by HeadOn (Don't talk to me about global warming unless you don't own a car.)
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To: EveningStar

Maybe it's time to let the series die.


9 posted on 08/17/2005 12:34:15 PM PDT by skip_intro
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