Nyhed: Mel Gibson for lille til "James Bond"

Mel Gibson for lille til "James Bond"

007 kræver en vis højde.

Da Mel Gibson for alvor havde gang i sin karriere som skuespiller, før drukskandaler og antisemitiske udtalelser, besluttede han sig for, at den helt store udfordring ville være at spille James Bond. United Artists var vilde med iéen, men produceren Albert "Cubby" Broccoli var knap så glad, da Gibson åbenbart var for lav til rollen.

"At one point Mel Gibson wanted to play Bond. And Cubby was against it. Cubby first of all had a thing about tall people. Bond had to be tall. And so Mel Gibson was too short," fortæller manusforfatter Tom Mankiewicz. "Somebody at (film studio) United Artists said to me, 'Call him and tell him Mel Gibson would be great.' And Cubby said, 'I don't want to make a Mel Gibson movie, I want to make a James Bond movie.'"

Gibson kan dog glæde sig over, at han for nylig forlod sin kone igennem adskillige år for tidligere 007-skuespiller Timothy Daltons eks, Oksana Grigorieva.