February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
According to Brosnan’s neighbor and occasional costar, Michael Madsen, Pierce has downed his last shaken martini. A source (could it be Pierce?) told Madsen that the next guy in the tuxedo will be an Aussie actor, which points to the suave (and hot) Hugh Jackman.
The Tarantino story hit New York Post’s Page Six column last week, with news that the iconoclastic director wants to take Brosnan, and the next Bond film, back to its story-driven roots.
“Wouldn’t it be great to have a James Bond movie that didn’t cost $115 million?” he asked rhetorically. “You know it’s going to make its money back and . . . maybe we win the critics this time.”
There?s no comment from the project?s production team, but Pierce is on record as saying he?d like to star in the next film if they could come up with a good story and a good director.
P.S.: In addition to Jackman, it’s whispered that Aussie Heath Ledger and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” star Colin Firth are also interested in joining Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Yum.
In more Pierce news, this week?s Star Magazine is breathless with admiration for the star?s decision to stick by his wife, Keely Shay-Smith, who is apparently not quite as svelte as she was when they met 10 years ago.
The mag cites unnamed sources who whisper that Keely, who has two children with the actor, is so unhappy with the extra weight on her 5-foot-8 frame that she refused to accompany her husband to the Golden Globe Awards. They say that she reluctantly agreed to attend the Oscars — but only after the star promised her choice of designer gowns.
The idea that the Irish actor might actually regard his wife as more than a bit of arm candy seems strangely subversive to the tabloid press. After all, if Pierce is OK with a little cellulite, and Harrison Ford sees beauty in a waif-like Callista Flockhart, what will the inside sources do for a living?