The time slowly moved towards mid-April, after Duke completed all the post-production, according to Warner's plan, he accepted an exclusive interview with the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times, which was placed in the rock studio, in addition to the routine promotion of "Death Island", according to the pre-communication between the two sides, a considerable part of the topic revolved around John Mason and Christopher Lee.

"It is said that you originally wanted to invite Sean Connery to play John Mason?"

Sarah, a female reporter sitting across from Duke, asked, "Why did you give up and choose Christopher Lee?" ”

"Mason is a very tough agent, even if he's a little older." Duke made the right gesture of punching, and the female reporter immediately said, "Yes, we can see that from the trailer." ”

"Actually, in my original conception......"

After receiving the guidance of Warner's public relations in advance, Duke also knew a little bit about taking advantage of the publicity, "Mason's candidate is an actor like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but unfortunately Mr. Schwarzenegger took the film contract for "True Lies", so I had to look for other candidates. ”

"So to speak." The female reporter immediately grasped the point, "John Mason's original candidate was not Sean Connerry. ”

"That's right." Duke nodded immediately, and he didn't need to type a draft at all, "Later, someone recommended Mr. Connelly to me, and I felt that it was a suitable replacement. ”

He deliberately accentuated the tone on the 'substitution' and the subsequent 'audition', "So, the crew sent him an invitation to audition, we never finalized Sean Connery to play John Mason, he was just one of the audition candidates, although he starred in 007, but it was too far away, you can also see from the trailer that Mason is a fierce agent, completely different from Bond." ”

"Then why Christopher Lee?"

"That's right, in order to find a suitable actor, I deliberately watched several 007 movies in the last ten years."

Talking nonsense with your eyes open is definitely a necessary skill for Hollywood, "Then I saw "007 vs. the Golden Gunner", everyone should have seen this movie, and it is also recognized that the villain charm surpasses Bond's 007 movie, Lee is the Golden Gunner, I felt at the time, this is what I need John Mason, and I specially asked my assistant to find his information, and I ...... after seeing it"

After making a few exaggerated gestures, Duke said, "It was a feeling that can only be described by shock, and I thought it must be fake, and Warner sent a letter to the British government to verify it, and it turned out that the information was true." ”

"What exactly do you see?" The female reporter hurriedly asked.

"After reading the information, I feel that Lee is Mason, and no one is more suitable than him." There was a deliberate shock in Duke's tone, as if it was still hard to believe, "Christopher Lee is a living legend, and I mean him, his experience!" There are many people who have better acting skills and higher achievements than him in Hollywood, but no one can surpass him in the identity of a secret agent actor! ”

"Isn't Sean Connery too good?"

"Sean Connery?" Duke said with a slight disdain, "Everyone thinks that Sean Connery is suitable for John Mason because he used to play the role of James Bond, a virtual agent, but Christopher Lee was an agent for nearly a decade, and he was a member of the British Non-Gentleman's War Department in World War II!" ”

“OH. MY. GOD！ ”

The female reporter exclaimed directly, as a person who runs entertainment news, how did she not know that James Bond's original work was adapted from the experience of an agent in the British non-gentleman's war department!

…………

"Is this true? A real British agent? And not an imposter like Sean Connery? ”

Erin, who is one of the few girls interested in action movies, is sitting in a Manhattan cold drink shop, and she is asking her roommate Anna.

Anna, a student at NYU's Institute of Film Production, was looking at a copy of the Los Angeles Times and said, "It must be true, the Los Angeles Times has checked with the British government!" ”

"I didn't expect Hollywood to have such a peculiar actor as Christopher Lee." Erin's face was full of incredulity.

"Here's his resume, do you want to see it, Miss Lauder?" Anna handed over the paper, and Erin almost grabbed it, and the front-page article was just as striking as the picture of the medal Lee had received.

"Christopher Lee, who played the role of John Mason in "Death Island", is a living legend. I'm not saying that his career as an actor is better than his acting skills and there are many people with high achievements. I mean him, he's a legend! ”

Erin's eyes quickly moved to the details below.

"When Lee was 17 years old, he went to Finland to join the army to fight the Soviet Union, and after fighting the Soviet Union, he returned to England to join the Long Distance Desert Force (LRDG) to fight the Nazis in Egypt. German Field Marshal Rommel himself said - the LRDG did more damage than any British unit! ”

"According to the information of the British government, Lee drove a Chevrolet equipped with a machine gun, drove hundreds of kilometers behind Nazi enemy lines under the scorching sun of the Sahara Desert, sneaked into the airport and blew up German fighter planes, leaving behind scrap steel and a bunch of German devils lying in a pool of blood.

"Returning to England from the desert of Egypt, Lee did not taste enough blood, he turned around and joined the special forces of the British Non-Gentleman War Department - the predecessor of James Bond's intelligence agency - and became a real agent, carrying out reconnaissance, espionage, and sabotage missions in Nazi-occupied areas. By the way, Tito was his personal friend! ”

"A few years after the end of World War II, Christopher Lee retired as a soldier and secret service, but his career as an actor was just beginning, and Fleming, the author of 007, was Lee's cousin, and they fought side by side in the Non-Gentleman's War Department, and James Bond was basically based on the experiences of Lee, Fleming, and their comrades!"

"Lee is by no means the kind of actor agent who has nothing to show for himself, he is also a Western sword champion......"

Seeing this, Erin blinked her eyes and asked her ice cream companion again, "Anna, are you sure this is true?" Is this incredible? It's unbelievable! ”

"It's definitely true." Anna gave her another copy of The New York Times and The Washington Post, "These newspapers also have reports on this, and without verification, the three major newspapers will never be on the front page of the entertainment section!" ”

After reading the three major newspapers, Erin simply ran to the newspaper shelf of the cold drink shop and hugged all the newspapers together, except for some tabloids such as the "Daily Mail" and the "New York Post", most newspapers published reports about Christopher Lee, and also placed an important position on the front page of the entertainment section, this kind of news fraud is very unlikely, and even the "Los Angeles Times" also published a copy of the British government's reply letter, the three major newspapers will not create this kind of lie that can be punctured casually.

"I used to think that Sean Connery was not bad, after all, it was the first generation of 007."

I have to say that this overwhelming report coupled with Christopher Lee's proven legendary experience has inadvertently changed many people's opinions, "Now that I see this, I feel that Connery's so-called secret agent experience is not worth mentioning at all, and in front of Lee's real experience, he is like a baby who doesn't understand anything." ”

"Sean Connery was rude and impulsive when he was younger, and I've seen some of the reports." Erin pursed her lips, "I've watched the earliest 007 movies, and I always feel like he's stunned like a fool, I don't know why, in the past few years of getting old, he suddenly became a gentleman." ”

"Whatever!" The young man showed the side that he didn't care, "Let's go to see "Death Island" together and see the former British agent!" ”

"I think the tall Lee is better suited for the role of an agent than Connery."

Public opinion is always changing, a person was the object of media praise yesterday, and tomorrow may be beaten to the dust, under the public relations planning of Warner Bros., Christopher Lee's real experience has spread throughout North America in just a few days, maybe Hollywood actors have been presidents, and there will be other big names in the future, but a real agent who has served for several years, that is absolutely rare.

As for Sean Connery, although he is still compared to Christopher Lee by the media, few people think that he is more suitable for the role of John Mason than Lee, even if the tabloids under News Corp. claim that real experience and acting skills are two different things, and Lee's acting skills are not as good as Connery, but not many people buy it.

After all, Lee is also a veteran actor with decades of acting experience, and there are also well-known roles such as the Golden Gunner, and as we all know, Sean Connery has never been known for his acting skills, once a real agent and a fictional agent, which is more convincing, even if the public will be guided by public opinion, but there is still some basic judgment.

If Sean Connery is a scarce resource for roles like retired secret agents, Christopher Lee is a unique resource in Hollywood.

Not only that, borrowing this competition with Sean Connery, even if "Brave Island" has not yet been released, Christopher Lee has temporarily become famous, and even received audition invitations from several crews, and even snatched the actor in "The First Horse" directly from Sean Connery in an audition, and after another hype and publicity by Warner with the help of the media, there was even a voice that Sean Connery's acting skills were not as good as Christopher Lee.

These are all propaganda tactics, Warner temporarily gained the upper hand, and played the spirit of beating the water dogs, poking out a lot of shady things about Sean Connery!

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