Connery is Scottish. Didn’t hurt, even though I guess we did learn that Bond grew up in Scotland.
Yet the United Kingdom had been involved in the whole IRA - Northern Ireland squabble, which as far as we know ended decades ago, yet there's still some bad feelings and sentiments between the Catholics and Protestants of the region...
I was thinking that perhaps bringing an Irishman such as Neeson in as 'M' would be interesting because he's such a gifted actor -- but he'd have to lose the accent.
Others might think that it would a 'slap in the face' to MI6...
Maybe he could be the next villain?? ;-)
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We might lease Castle Dunvegan to M for a huge piece of the action -
But no messing with explosives and missiles and the Scotch in the dungeons will be locked and well guarded by Clan McLeod
- There can be only one.....
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