Earlier this month, on May 16, 2023, the enduring James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan turned 70-years-old.

The Irish actor first joined the collection as 007 within the 1995 image GoldenEye, changing Timothy Dalton within the function. He remained within the iconic Ian Fleming function for seven years earlier than hanging up his tuxedo in 2002.

His ultimate image, Die Another Day, was a crucial disappointment, as many retailers claimed it relied an excessive amount of on CGI and had a lacklustre overarching plot.

After that, Brosnan waited by the cellphone to listen to about what his subsequent James Bond journey would entail. Unfortunately for him, all of it got here crashing down.

According to Far Out, Brosnan recalled being within the Bahamas engaged on one other film when he acquired a worrying cellphone name from his brokers.

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"My brokers known as me up and mentioned: ‘Negotiations have stopped,'" Brosnan said.

He was told that Bond bosses Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson were "not quite sure" how they wanted to proceed with Brosnan in the franchise.

Brosnan remembered being assured: "They’ll name you subsequent Thursday." But after they did, he did not have the dialog he hoped for.

Brosnan mentioned: "I sat in Richard Harris’ house in the Bahamas, and Barbara and Michael were on the [phone] line. [They said]: 'We’re so sorry.'"

Broccoli was so overcome with emotion that she was weeping down the cellphone to him. "She was crying. Michael was stoic and he said: ‘You were a great James Bond. Thank you very much.’ And I said: ‘Thank you very much. Goodbye.'"

After that fateful second, Brosnan hung up and sat with the news that he was Britain's James Bond actor not.

Brosnan continued to explain the brutal method during which he was let go from his contract.

"That was it," he mentioned. "I was utterly shocked and just kicked to the kerb with the way it went down."

Just three years later, in 2005, Daniel Craig was introduced as the following James Bond star. His first film, Casino Royale, hit cinemas a 12 months later, on November 14, 2006.

The film was an infinite success, and have become the highest-grossing James Bond film of all time with a staggering $606 million earned on the field workplace. This document was solely crushed a couple of years later by Craig's third Bond film, Skyfall, which earned greater than $1 billion on the field workplace.