Thank you!

😆😂😉

You were the wind beneath his wings

Thanks to u, he’s been luvin it with Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie in the movies 🔥

Spotlights?

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Yeah where’d he go?? Children of Men was exquisite.

Yessssssssssss! 🥺

He’s in ”Murder at the End of the World” too

@@Dannyryan73 wasn’t it just 🫶🏾

The old BMW "commercials" / short films he's done was stunning!

Clive Owen isn't really "underrated". He's won a shit load of awards for his acting.

Bourne identity, children of men, inside man, the international. ALL BRILLIANT.

If you're a fan of movies haven't seen Croupier, you're missing out

Et Le roi Arthur 😊 même là dedans il est excellent

Agreed, in hindsight he was the better choice for Bond.

@@SR-ob3wn For sure! I think he asked when Craig was picked but he didn't want to do it. I've been watching some of his movies lately like "Duplicity" and "The International" and "Croupier" and "I'll Sleep when I'm Dead" and he would have had the possibility to be the Best James Bond, very close to the book.

indeed

Agreed

I doubt it’s outside his control. I imagine he picks and chooses what he feels like doing. Watch The Knick if you haven’t - amazing

@@theewhaler I shall check it out! Thanks for the recommendation!

@@theewhaler Thanks! Wow, never heard of it. It has a 8.5 score on IMDB.

Been watching him since Chancer, and that was what 30 years ago. He is so good. Brilliant in Bourne Identity.

Damn straight he should have been Bond!

But his American accent is terrible. It's distracting from his performance, for me anyway.

The knick is and incredible show! Still hoping for a season 3

Have you seen one of his earliest, a UK indie film called "Croupier"? I think from late 80's or early 90's.

He would have, but Daniel Craig set some new standards for 007.

Was just about to comment that.

Loved the Chancer. Really looking forward to this.

I will Sleep when I'm Dead and Croupier were BOTH good performances by Clive Owens.

Was just thinking that. chancer was great, hed have made a great 007

We need more Clivebell.

Don't forget Children of Men.

@@yellohammer8571 thanx, had seen the trailer before, definitely gonna see it now. Thanx for the tip! In return: The international and Killer elite are great!

Yes. A friend of mine was shocked that I thought he was so good in that--she shuddered. I had to clarify that I wouldn't want to date his character, but I thought he played him so well.

You're kidding! All i've been getting in my news feed is 'Sam Spade', 'Sam Spade', 'Sam Spade'. Don[t miss 'Sam Spade', Clive Owen is in it. That was long before the trailer.

Sam Spade is a character introduced by writer Dashiell Hammett and has been around since 1930. Nothing is original.

Owen was on a lot of people’s minds for Bond back then. Including mine. According to interviews, he was flat out never interested in playing James Bond, never auditioned, and would’ve declined to audition if it had been offered. He wanted something different for his career, and it seems that he’s achieved it since.

yea everybody wanted him to be Bond but he declined it

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 He didn’t even decline it. According to Owen he was never asked, and if he had been he would’ve refused. There was a story in the press about him being considered for Bond once, but he said that was just put there by his agent at the time to garner interest.

@@jackanaples I knew he was not interested but I remember at the time everybody wanted him to do be Bond esp. cause of Croupier and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. It's pretty strange that he wasn't asked(esp. since I don't think Craig was the first choice)

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 It's true a lot of fans and others had Owen in mind for Bond after seeing CROUPIER. I did myself. However, in retrospect it's easy to see why he wasn't considered. He's a great actor, but it's too obvious a choice--which is why all the fans picked up on it. As for Daniel Craig, I don't know if he was the first choice initially or not. There's probably a lot of men on their list as first tier choices. Barbara Brocolli is on the record as saying she first noticed him in the movie ELIZABETH (1998) and made it a point to approach him when they decided to recast. During the casting process, Craig definitely became the primary candidate, with Henry Cavill being the runner up if he passed on it.

Clive Owen has said in interviews he wasn't interested in playing James Bond, was never approached to audition, and would've flat out refused to audition had it been offered. That's not what he wanted for his career apparently. He wanted to be a character actor. He achieved that.

Clive Owen was on the short list for Bond. He turned it down.

Right! And he's close to 60.

@@thebighomie4282 so am I. He is aging better lol

@keithss67 This summer, I made it to 50, and at one point, I said out loud, "Oh my god, I made it to 50". If I make it to 60 I will consider it a blessing! Keep rolling, brother. Hopefully, you'll be 70, and we'll celebrate it together!

No. It's much simpler than that. If you read or watch a lot of crime thrillers, you'll notice that they tend to make use of the wars that happened around the time of the story. For crime stories set in the 1920s and 1930s, many of the characters fought in WWI. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the characters have WWII experience and/or Korean War experience. In the 1970s and 1980s, the wartime experience was mainly Vietnam. Since the 1990s, the characters in crime fiction tend to have experience fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq. The reason is simple. Soldiers who have fought in a war have been trained to kill and did so successfully if they came back home. They are immediately seen as more of a threat than someone who doesn't have wartime military experience. The French-Algerian War ended in 1962, the year before this miniseries takes place. Sam Spade is 60 years old in France. Naturally he's going to have to deal with younger men with recent military experience under the belt. And that experience in that time in that place would've been in Algeria.