{"id":7742,"date":"2010-02-15T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2010-02-15T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:50:04","slug":"sam-neill-as-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/02\/15\/sam-neill-as-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Neill as James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pfl9atd-Wq8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pfl9atd-Wq8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is footage of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Neill\">Sam Neill<\/a><\/strong> doing a screen test for the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Bond\">James Bond<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0298386\/\">Fiona Fullerton<\/a> back in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n<p>It was for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Living_Daylights\">The Living Daylights<\/a> (1987), although the scene is actually from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057076\/\">From Russia With Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Current Bond <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Craig\">Daniel Craig<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/17\/casino-royale-interviews\/\">told me back in 2006<\/a> that the Bond producers always make potential 007s audition with this scene.<\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of Sam Neill doing a screen test for the role of James Bond back in the mid-80s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[317,1305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}