Screen Legend Dick Van Dyke Names The 1 Iconic Film Role He Turned Down
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He also revealed the part he still wants to play even as he turns 100.
Screen legend Dick Van Dyke said he was offered a potential career-altering role in one of the world’s most famous movie franchises.
And he turned it down.
“Cubby Broccoli came to me and said, ‘Would you like to be Bond?’” he told Al Roker of NBC’s “Today” in an interview conducted ahead of his 100th birthday next month.
Van Dyke said Broccoli, who produced many of the James Bond films, offered him the role of 007 when Sean Connery left. Connery left the role twice, in 1967 and 1971 (or three times, if you count the non-canonical “Never Say Never Again” in 1983). It’s not clear when Van Dyke was approached, but there was a reason he wasn’t interested.
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