Tomer Sisley admits to having declined an offer for a role in a James Bond

“It’s bullshit because it was, for me, the best James Bond.” Tomer Sisley made his mea culpa on Saturday evening on the set of “What an era!”.

The actor that we will soon see in the cinema in the third part of Long Winchan action saga adapted from a comic strip of the same name, confided during an interview with Léa Salamé that he had refused an offer for a role in Sky Fall.

Budget estimated at over 150 million dollars, revenues at over a billion, Sam Mendes’ film released in 2012 lined up action scenes during an almost Shakespearean plot.

A very demanding sequence

“The film started with a twenty-minute fight sequence with a character. It was this character that I was asked to embody”explains Tomer Sisley.

It probably refers to the chase and duel on a speeding train which pitted Bond against a tough opponent, ultimately played by the Swede Ola Rapace. A sequence shot in Istanbul that was particularly demanding for the actors.

The man who became known as a comedian explains why he declined the offer: “The character should not say a word. I told them: “You can hire a stuntman, he will do it just as well as me”. Obviously I want to be in a James Bond, a superhero capable of killing someone with a nail clipper, but my job is an actor, not a stuntman! If I don’t have a line, I have nothing to stand for as an actor.» We don’t know if the role was offered to him or if he was going to have to go through auditions, as one might imagine for such a physical sequence.

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Léa Salamé questions him: “Are you sorry?” The response bursts out, accompanied by a smile: “Yes, I regret…” Sisley, who appeared in Don’t Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in 2021, can still apply for the role of the future James Bond… The producers of the saga have still not announced who will slip after Daniel Craig into the costume of Her Majesty’s agent .