Wrote this about Idris Elba as Bond ... got a Guardian pick & 57 likes under my nom de guerre ... 303 Squadron
Casting Connery in the early 60s was more shocking than casting Idris Elba or Regé-Jean Page now ... Fleming was horrified that his suave English gent was portrayed by a working class, bodybuilding, milk delivering, hirsute Irishman from Edinburgh... For those who say Fleming didn’t write Bond as black ... he certainly didn’t picture coffin polishing, tattooed Big Tam fi Fountainbridge as 007
People don’t compare Bond to Fleming’s fiction ... they always measure him against Connery. And the closest in terms of screen presence, sexual charisma & potential for violence is unquestionably Idris Elba
