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Honestly, I think he could have gone as long as Brosnan. He looked younger and fitter than Brosnan in 2003 when he basically played Bond in Looney Tunes Back in Action:That was a mistake. It's not like Dalton had a big career going on.
If he had agreed to continue, he would have been a bigger name than he is. Though perhaps he didn't want all that fame, but rather preferred to play interesting characters.
Stuff in Goldeneye actually do seem tailor made for Dalton. Like him being a leftover from the cold war, the old mission together with 006 etc. And perhaps even Bond revealing that being cold and distant it's what has kept him alive.
What I said earlier about Made Men means that Dalton could still play the role in TWINE (but likely with a somewhat different story and/or title). It could have been his last one.
If anything, his further receded hairline just made him look even more like Fleming's Bond:
Well, Connery was in particularly bad shape in DAF (he gained a lot of weight fast right before shooting, which is why some of his suits didn't fit him) and the sideburns and untrimmed eyebrows just added to the aging image. If he was in the shape and groomed like he was in Never Say Never Again in 1971, I don't think he would have looked so old in DAF.Something worth mentioning youtfulness could happen before too. Not as much as today, but still.
Moore in his first film LALD, was 6 years older than Connery in DAF, yet could pass for a decade younger than him.
These are a big part of the difference:Have there been new reports after the ones that stated the producers wanted actors in their early 30s?
Perhaps many of those candidates appeared too young for the role? It's interesting to compare with Connery being only 32 when he started out.
What's the deal with actors being so youthful these days?