Whoops! Pierce Brosnan’s inappropriate joke that left him out of an iconic project

This week, the stories of failed castings came out to claim their space in the media. While Russell Crowe debunked director PJ Hogan and claimed that he never auditioned with Julia Roberts for the protagonist of My best friend’s Wedding, Pierce Brosnan was in charge of a prank that left him out of an iconic project.

During the 1980s, Brosnan became one of the biggest television stars, after starring alongside Stephanie Zimbalist in the well-remembered detective series Remington Steele. His passage from the small screen to the big one was almost sung, but As he told this Friday, his landing in film productions could have been big and have happened much earlier. What prevented him? Their sense of humor.

Good-looking, athletic, elegant, charismatic and with a great deal of mystery. All the characteristics with which Bruce Wayne was defined since his creation also fit him. Perhaps for this reason, it was strange that Brosnan had never been thought of to wear the suit of the avenger of Gotham City. Tim Burton took the similarities into account when he began work on the pre-production of Batmanin 1988.

By then, the actor had already filmed The fourth protocolalong with Michael Caine, Y Potato foreverwith Robin Williams. He only needed to find the right character for his career to explode. Aware that she was facing a great opportunity, she agreed to audition for the role. And when everything seemed to be going great, the setback happened: “I remember saying something stupid to Tim Burton”, The actor confessed this Friday to Jimmy Fallon.

And, aware that he could not leave either his interlocutor or the public with the intrigue, he agreed to reveal his comment: “I said, ‘You know, I’m never going to understand that it can lead any man to wear his boxer shorts over his pants.”. His joke, referring to the iconic costume of the superhero – and many others, both from DC and Marvel – did not make Burton funny.

“And well… There you have it: the best man got the job,” Brosnan finished, referring to Michael Keaton, who was ultimately chosen by the director to play Wayne in both the 1989 film and its 1992 sequel, batman returns.

Regardless, Brosnan had his revenge. Another iconic character was waiting for him: none other than James Bond, the legendary 007 agent; a role he played four times in the films goldeneye (nineteen ninety five), The tomorrow Never Die (1997), the world is not enough (1999) and Another day to die (2002), and that made him a world star.

“Bond allowed me to have this wonderful career”said the actor in an interview published by TheGuardian. “Once you have that label, it stays with you forever, so you have to make peace with it,” he added.

With regard to being part of the world of superheroes, the actor also had revenge. More than three decades after that failed casting, the actor managed to put himself in the shoes of one of the publisher’s most powerful, enigmatic and disconcerting characters: Doctor Fate. His landing in the DC cinematic universe finally took place in Black Adamthe film starring Dwayne Johnson that opens this Thursday in theaters.

His character, Kent Nelson, aka Doctor Fate, is the son of an archaeologist who was taught sorcery skills and given the magical Helmet of Destiny. Created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman, he is one of DC’s oldest heroes, first appearing in More Fun Comics in 1940.

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