Pierce Brosnan talks about his four film success and the elusive fifth - `It was a ****`

11-Nov-2004 • Casino Royale

Dressed casually in a gray T-shirt and jeans, he is on his first publicity tour since it became official he would not be returning to play British superspy James Bond. Not surprisingly, he is inundated with questions about life post-007 - reports AZCentral.

Brosnan, 51, appears to be smarting from the way the Bond producers unceremoniously dumped him after he starred in four fairly successful Bond films. His last Bond film, 2002's "Die Another Day," earned nearly $432 million worldwide, and he had hoped to reprise 007 once more before hanging up his gun.

"If the last film hadn't acquitted itself, or the one before hadn't acquitted itself, I would've thought, OK, well, I just didn't cut the mustard," he says. "But because they were such a progression of box-office successes, it seemed right to do a fifth."

Brosnan, who took over as the suave British spy in 1995's "GoldenEye," says he was invited to do a fifth film then found the rug pulled out from under him while he was shooting "After the Sunset" in the Bahamas. "It was a ****," he says in his Irish brogue.

Thanks to `Kyvan` for the alert.