Avatar's Sam Worthington says he was a finalist to play James Bond, Green Lantern
. Producer Barbara Broccoli even personally cut his hair ahead of his tuxedo-clad screen test in London. “I could play Bond as a killer, but I couldn’t get the debonair down for the life of me,” Worthington tells the outlet. “The suit did not fit.”. “It didn’t make much sense to me—the suit comes out of his skin?” The actor ponders. “And I was like, ‘He’s got this powerful ring that can create anything. Well, what can beat the ring?’ The answer was, ‘Nothing.
And apparently, it wasn’t the right direction Worthington wanted for his career. “You can’t create a character if there’s nothing there. On themovies, that was the problem. You were getting new pages every day, and it’s too complicated,” he shares. “The movies that I did right afterwere great big spectacles, but I should have been looking for movies that pried a little bit more into the human condition. I was boring myself with what I was doing.
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