Brosnan talks to GQ about life as Bond and where it`s heading

21-Sep-2002 • Die Another Day

GQ Magazine (UK), which this month features Pierce Brosnan on the cover following his "Actor of the Year" award, speaks about life as Bond and the direction it has taken:

"...of course there is part of me that would love to do a full-on Bond, where you don`t have the rating, where you do all the killings and you see the effects of killing on the man - the mundanity of being a spy. But they struck oil with Goldfinger, and they were off to the races with gadgets and the explosions and the set pieces. And the audiences need that..."

"He is a man who`s lived with so much death and dying, and so much alochol and sex over the years, that there`s a pretty ,mangled human being in there trying to survive. So I just want to be honest and truthful as possible. But it`s a lot to encompass, and you can`t play it all so you just take it a scene at a time. This is a man who lives this fantastic lifestyle with his incredible confidence and assuredness with women and guns and cars and his fellow man. But underneath there`s a guy who is trapped... ****ing trapped. Somewhat like the actor in the role."

Thanks to `Umpire` for the alert.