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Sydney Morning Herald
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The anti-Bond: Why Keeley Hawes' new assassin is the spy we need now
More than two decades ago, actor Keeley Hawes and I met on the set of David Wolstencroft's television spy thriller Spooks. That series, about a group of intelligence officers working in Section D of the British spy agency MI5, was hailed for the way it upended the established espionage genre. Since the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953, that franchise had defined the way stories about spies and assassins were told. But if Spooks gave the genre its light and shade, the new thriller series, The Assassin, flips the script again, in favour of something more resembling a rollercoaster. ' The Assassin feels a bit like the opposite of Bond in every way,' Hawes explains, when we reconnect to talk about the new series. 'Julie is a kind of anti-hero. Obviously when we meet her as a young woman she's obviously been very, very good at her job. But even then, she's this person who's a bit sort of worn down with it. 'She is real in a way that James Bond is not,' Hawes adds. 'And I think even though they're so different, both of those shows would appeal to the same sort of person who loves a high-octane show.' Created by Harry and Jack Williams – the sibling writing partnership behind The Missing and its spinoff Baptiste, Liar and The Tourist – The Assassin is a crime thriller about a retired assassin (Hawes' Julie) who is living a quiet life on a remote Greek island and trying to reconnect with her son, Edward (Freddie Highmore). The hiccup? Mum's past has caught up with her. When Hawes sat down to begin work on the series, the scripts and the story framework were still in an evolutionary state, she says. 'So you have an idea of where the show is going to go,' she says. 'But then that can change. It is also organic. And particularly with Jack and Harry, there are some curveballs that are thrown. 'Once you've established who the character is, [and] how you'll play that person, it's quite exciting to then not know which direction they're going to go,' Hawes says. 'In this case, it just gets more and more exciting. And I just loved the work. 'I know everybody always says this, but this really was a joyful job,' Hawes adds. 'Freddie and I had this amazing chemistry from the beginning. I immediately knew that it was going to be OK. We met and had a coffee, and we did the read-through [of the scripts] and I felt like I had known this person for much longer than I have.'
The Age
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The anti-Bond: Why Keeley Hawes' new assassin is the spy we need now
More than two decades ago, actor Keeley Hawes and I met on the set of David Wolstencroft's television spy thriller Spooks. That series, about a group of intelligence officers working in Section D of the British spy agency MI5, was hailed for the way it upended the established espionage genre. Since the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953, that franchise had defined the way stories about spies and assassins were told. But if Spooks gave the genre its light and shade, the new thriller series, The Assassin, flips the script again, in favour of something more resembling a rollercoaster. ' The Assassin feels a bit like the opposite of Bond in every way,' Hawes explains, when we reconnect to talk about the new series. 'Julie is a kind of anti-hero. Obviously when we meet her as a young woman she's obviously been very, very good at her job. But even then, she's this person who's a bit sort of worn down with it. 'She is real in a way that James Bond is not,' Hawes adds. 'And I think even though they're so different, both of those shows would appeal to the same sort of person who loves a high-octane show.' Created by Harry and Jack Williams – the sibling writing partnership behind The Missing and its spinoff Baptiste, Liar and The Tourist – The Assassin is a crime thriller about a retired assassin (Hawes' Julie) who is living a quiet life on a remote Greek island and trying to reconnect with her son, Edward (Freddie Highmore). The hiccup? Mum's past has caught up with her. When Hawes sat down to begin work on the series, the scripts and the story framework were still in an evolutionary state, she says. 'So you have an idea of where the show is going to go,' she says. 'But then that can change. It is also organic. And particularly with Jack and Harry, there are some curveballs that are thrown. 'Once you've established who the character is, [and] how you'll play that person, it's quite exciting to then not know which direction they're going to go,' Hawes says. 'In this case, it just gets more and more exciting. And I just loved the work. 'I know everybody always says this, but this really was a joyful job,' Hawes adds. 'Freddie and I had this amazing chemistry from the beginning. I immediately knew that it was going to be OK. We met and had a coffee, and we did the read-through [of the scripts] and I felt like I had known this person for much longer than I have.'
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Superman' Star David Corenswet Just Revealed His Mind-Blowing James Bond Theory
The newest cinematic Superman, David Corenswet, is a man who thinks deeply about movies he loves. If you're someone who has strong opinions about the order of Star Wars films, Corenswet feels like the kind of guy you could hang out with, literally, any day of the week, for as long as possible. And, in a recent appearance on Brittany Broski's Royal Court, Corenswet went into great detail about his love for the opening scene of the 2006 James Bond movie, Casino Royale. And, in detailing his admiration for this scene, Corenswet also floated a theory that might make you see the movie in a totally different light. As Corenswet reminds Broski (and all of us), Casino Royale begins with Bond about to execute a crooked MI6 official. But this scene is intercut with an earlier moment in which Bond has killed another man, the "contact" connected to the crooked MI6 guy that he's about to take out. What Corenswet is interested in is not just the coolness of the scene and the way it plays with time, but also, psychologically, what Bond might have considered to be his actual, second kill. "My hot take is that everybody thinks that the second kill is when Bond kills the main bad guy," Corenswet says. "What actually happened, experientially, is Bond already had his second kill, because he drowned the guy and then had to shoot him." Basically, Corenswet is saying that from Bond's point of view, drowning that dude in the bathroom sink felt like a moment in which he took him out. But, because that guy later struggled back to life, and Bond shot him, the other conversation later, about how the second kill is easier, is perhaps a bit meta. Bond taking out the crooked MI6 guy is, from Bond's perspective, his third kill. It's a pretty great theory, and shows that Corenswet is clearly a big Bond fan, to the point where he's even getting into the psychology of the character. (Ian Fleming would approve!) Corenswet recently retweeted this portion of the interview he had with Broski and added the comment: "The opening to Casino Royale is even better than you think…" Look, we know this guy is already a great Superman. And we know the last Superman, Henry Cavill, was already in the running for James Bond. But gosh, maybe David Corenswet would make a perfect 007? Seems like he already knows what makes Bond tick.'Superman' Star David Corenswet Just Revealed His Mind-Blowing James Bond Theory first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 16, 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Superman star David Corenswet has a "hot take" on Casino Royale, "the greatest Bond film ever made": "So great to get that off my chest"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Superman star David Corenswet feels very passionately about James Bond. Well, one movie in particular: Casino Royale, AKA "the greatest Bond film ever made" and "one of the best movies of all time." Released in 2006, Casino Royale was Daniel Craig's first outing as 007. The movie starts with Bond earning his 00 status and "licence to kill" by carrying out his second (and first) kills. But Corenswet has strong opinions about what exactly the film's opener means. "My hot take is, everyone thinks the second kill is when Bond kills the main bad guy in the office later and he's like, 'Yes, considerably,'" he explained during an appearance on Brittany Broski's Royal Court. "But what actually happened is, experientially, Bond already had his second kill because he drowned the guy and then had to shoot him. So, in his experience, he had to go through drowning the guy, thought he was dead, thought that he had had his first kill, and then the guy woke up and he just shot him. So, that's actually the second kill in his mind that was super easy." He's referring to the moment that Bond kills Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair), a crooked MI6 agent, and the flashback sequence when he murders Dryden's contact in Prague. "It's a human experience thing. The point is not the second person you kill, it's the second experience of killing," Corenswet continued, before jokingly adding, "I'm sure you'll cut all that out, but I needed to get it in somewhere. It was not gonna come up anywhere else in press. So great to get that off my chest." Corenswet is currently starring as the Man of Steel in James Gunn's Superman, the first theatrical release in the DCU Chapter One. He stars opposite Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Superman is out now in theaters. For more on the latest DC movie, check out our guide to the Superman ending explained, or get up to speed with our verdict in our Superman review. Solve the daily Crossword
Economic Times
12-07-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Can Tata and Mamata Banerjee ever be business friends?
ET Bureau & Agencies A lot of activities connecting the past, present and (intended) future happened over the last fortnight. The much-awaited, almost-given up reunion of Oasis happened in Cardiff on July 4. The epochal final 'Back to the Beginning' concert of Black Sabbath and its legendary frontman Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham took place the next day. But a decidedly quieter meeting of no less momentous proportion took place in Kolkata on July 9. Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met at the latter's office on Wednesday. This was the first time that a Tata Group chairman met a West Bengal CM in 14 years - the last two being Ratan Tata and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, just before the woman who drove Tata Motor Dixie out of Bengal took over Bhattacharjee's portfolio, and much else. The warring Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher had been fighting for 16 years. Ozzy had been put out to Sabbath for health reasons for 20. But somehow, Didi's darbar with Chandra, at least to people with a more ironic sense of history - especially where economic progress has been history for some time - felt more fateful than a re-Oasis or re-Ozzy. Now, I - like most others who believe puddings should be first eaten before one considers them to be pudding - have seen Banerjee, in her post-Che chief ministerial module, rack up MoUs with corporate houses like she was Le Chiffre piling up chips at the baccarat table in Casino Royale. But her annual BGBS (Bengal Global Business Summit) is not WYSIWYG. The likes of Ambani, Adani and other open- and closed-vowelled big names of industry fly down to Kolkata have photo-ops with Banerjee, make investment promises, and then take the first flight back to where they'll put their money where their MoUs are. With Chandra, Didi reportedly exchanged pleasantries, a core strength of Bengalis. TMC officially noted: 'The meeting reflected Bengal's commitment to fostering meaningful public-private partnerships that drive innovation, investment and inclusive development... the conversation centred on deepening the Tata Group's presence in the state'. If you say so. And never mind Singur and the Tata Motors factory turned to factionary by then-in-opposition Didi. US goods trade with Vietnam was some $149.6 bn in 2024, 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!' notwithstanding. But it's not the present tete-a-tete offensive's genuineness I doubt. Or whether bygones can be made to be bye-byegones. It's the continued mismatch between how Bengal - not just its CM or political class, but also its people - sees business and the way rest of the world sees it. A perfect example of this is Kolkata's roads, arguably the worst among India's metropolitan cities. But here again, Bengalis will trot out examples of collapsed bridges in Gujarat and bombed-out highways in UP to make a point that they are being picked on for conspiratorial reasons. The definition of 'maintenance' is radically different from that in the rest of India. Tenders are floated, vendors are chosen, councillors get a slice of the MLA fund... the repair work (sic) is done in such a calibrated shoddy manner that the 'fixed' road will turn into a lunar landscape and public hazard by the next round of rains. Wash, rinse, repeat. And everyone is fine with this 'circular economy' here. Then there's 'wealth creation' itself. At some fundamental level, wanting to be rich - never mind being rich - is taboo, as if akin to wanting to sleep with one's own cousin. This is largely because most people in this everything-is-politically-connected economy make money by cutting corners, slipping slips, nailing turfs, promising cuts.... 'Mou' in Bengali is honey. 'MoU' is sweet nothing. For a state that takes pride in being constantly angry, 'When Chandra Met Mamata' remains a romcom scene famous for 'faking it' - at least until the pudding of actual investment is eaten. P.S. Rumour of the meeting originally scheduled for July 8, and then pushed a day later after someone pointed out that Tuesday was Jyoti Basu's 111th birth anniversary, I'm sure, was nothing but a rumour. Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. India's gas dream runs on old pipes. Can a European fix unclog the future? Did Jane Street manipulate Indian market or exploit its shallowness? Newton vs. industry: Inside new norms that want your car to be more fuel-efficient Is gold always the best bet? Think again Do bank stress tests continue to serve their intended purpose? These large- and mid-cap stocks can give more than 24% return in 1 year, according to analysts Suited for the long term, even with headwinds: 8 stocks from healthcare & pharma sectors with upside potential of up to 39% Stock picks of the week: 5 stocks with consistent score improvement and return potential of more than 22% in 1 year
