Wacov, you're reading way too much into what I'm saying here. I've never said anything about not giving unknowns a chance and I've never said it wouldn't work for sure. Yes, I personally don't think it would work but it could happen, I don't dismiss that. I believe unknown actors should get shots, I don't believe in blacklisting them as you're implying by the hiring comment (I hired a guy for my lab almost a year ago fresh out of college that had no experience who's now my best technician but I saw the same drive in him I had when I started in the lab so it was less of a risk to me), but I also believe you have to pay your dues to get to where you want to go in the world and, for an actor to do that, they have to put together at least a small resume of accomplishments in films before jumping big time like anyone else in jobs does. You can't go from front line worker to Manager in one day, you know.

For those reasons, I'm just saying that it's a huge risk to put someone a large part of the audience, Americans or not, would not recognize and pay their $10 to see, Bond or not. American audiences are heavily fueled by younger viewers and, if you're not all over TV, MTV, mags, or something, they aren't going to put their McDonald's-earned $10 to going to see you. They'll go see Jessica who's all over the place first. With a franchise like the Bond films that's an incredible risk for a production company to take. I'm just saying they should be a bit more selective before settling on a guy who's relatively unknown, especially given the box office numbers drops I mentioned before is all.