In the original novels by Ian Fleming, James Bond is a heavy smoker, putting away between sixty and seventy cigarettes a day. Bond and his author both smoked Morland cigarettes. In
We learn that Morland rolls unique cigarettes specifically for Bond, a Balkan-Turkish mixture with extra nicotine and three gold bands around the filter, signifying his rank as commander in naval intelligence. He is fiercely brand loyal while in London, but as an international spy, he is often out of the country and forced to smoke other cigarettes. While in America and Bahamas he smokes Chesterfields, in Jamaica he smokes Royal Blend and in Istanbul he smokes Diplomates, which he comes to prefer over his Morlands.
“He pushed over a flat white box of cigarettes and Bond sat down and took a cigarette and lit it. It was the most wonderful cigarette he had ever tasted – the mildest and sweetest of Turkish tobacco in a slim long oval tube with an elegant gold crescent.” –
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In order to bring his smoking habit down to a more reasonable ten cigarettes a day, though this is only during a strict training regimen.
Bond carries his Morlands in a black gun metal cigarette case, which holds an inexplicable fifty cigarettes. The case saves Bond’s life in
When he hides it between the pages of a book and uses it to deflect a bullet aimed at his heart. Bond is also almost killed by a cigarette case in the film adaptation of
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. The villain of the film, Francisco Scaramanga, famed one-shot assassin, attempts to kill Bond with his signature weapon, a golden pistol composed of interlocking pieces disguised as a fountain pen, a lighter, a cufflink and a cigarette case.
On screen, James Bond does not quite match the sixty-a-day habit from the novels, but he does smoke in eleven of the twenty-three 007 films. Sean Connery, who took up the Bond mantel for the first five films, is introduced in
With a cigarette between his lips. Roger Moore wanted to differentiate his portrayal of the character and as an avid cigar enthusiast, smoked cigars exclusively throughout his seven films. George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton were not heavy smokers, but they both smoke the occasional cigarettes as Bond in the collective three movies they starred in. Pierce Brosnan was the first actor to lay claim to a smokeless Bond, but he eventually buckled and puffed a cigar in his final film
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. The current Bond, Daniel Craig, is the only one to refuse to light up in character. Craig is a heavy smoker off camera, but he sees Bond smoking as a logistical problem. In an interview he stated:
“I don’t wish for [Bond] to smoke. Fleming wrote a Bond who smoked 60 cigarettes a day. I can’t do that and then run two-and-a-half miles down a road, it just doesn’t tie in.”
Bond may remain a non-smoker on film, but the future of his tobacco use in novels is not yet determined. William Boyd, the latest author to take up writing the 007 novels, has promised fans a return to Ian Fleming’s original character, which may or may not include his nicotine addiction. James Bond was created in a black and white cold war England. He was not socially, politically, or health conscious, he never had to question his actions or consider the villain’s perspective. He smoked sixty cigarettes a day because he didn’t expect to live long enough for them to kill him.
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“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs.” –
As seems to be a reoccurring theme among authors who write about smokers, Ian Fleming died at age 53 from a heart attack, brought on by a life of smoking eighty cigarettes a day.Home / Entertainment / Hollywood / The real reason Pierce Brosnan was fired as James Bond, ‘kicked to the kerb’ by producers in favour of Daniel Craig
Actor Pierce Brosnan made it clear in a 2004 interview that he hadn’t quit as James Bond, but that he was fired.
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Actor Pierce Brosnan appeared in four James Bond films, ending with the highest-grossing entry in the franchise (at the time), Die Another Day. And yet, to his shock, he was told that his services would no longer be required.
In an interview featured in the Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, by Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury, the actor said that he was shocked when Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson told him his tenure was up.
“I was in the Bahamas, working on a movie called After the Sunset and my agents called me up and said, ‘Negotiations have stopped. [Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson] are not quite sure what they want to do. They’ll call you next Thursday, ’” he recalled. “I sat in Richard Harris’s house in the Bahamas, and Barbara and Michael were on the line —‘We’re so sorry.’ 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.’ That was it. I was utterly shocked and just kicked to the kerb with the way it went down.”
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According to the book, negotiations broke down because Brosnan wanted too much money to return for another James Bond film. The producers eventually decided to reboot the character with a grittier approach, and hired Daniel Craig as Bond. Craig will complete his tenure as the iconic British spy this year, with No Time To Die, his fifth film as Bond.
In a 2004 interview to the Toronto Star, Brosnan confirmed that he didn’t quit as Bond; he was fired. “It’s over. It’s over. It’s absolutely over, ” Brosnan said. He continued, “They (the producers) invited me back right before I went to present that film (Die Another Day), before I went on the road with Halle Berry to sell the movie. They said: ‘We’re so happy with the success. We want you to come back!’ I went on the road a happy man, you know? I thought we’d get a fifth and no more. That would be it, really. I’d done it. You get bored. You get older. You give of yourself to something and then you have no more to give. But I thought a fifth would be good. And then one day the phone rang— I was here in the Bahamas —and my agents told me that the goalposts had moved and that they had changed their minds.”
Brosnan added, “It’s very hard to find the truth in that town [Hollywood] or in this business at times. But it was their prerogative to change their minds. They can do it.” And they might have done it ‘to go younger’, Brosnan added. “It was disappointing. It was surprising. And I accepted the knowledge after 24 hours of being in shock.”
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