Pierce Booted as Bond

Pierce Brosnan, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug. 19 issue, tells how one phone call let him know his Bond days were over.

"One phone call, that's all it took!"

He also says that before they stopped negotiations, the producers had invited him back for a fifth time.

He goes on to say that he found some freedom in this news.

"I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation."

Ya, well, that's what he says. The truth of the matter is that ever since Remington Steele, this was a part that had his name all over it.

Pierce is 52 years old. He's aged pretty well, and not only in Hollywood terms! Here he is in Remington Steel, way back in '82!