Re: Whatever happened to Wade?

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Chris Queen wrote:
> So Briquet wrote:

> > I was wondering exactly the same thing! The C.I.A. agent character,
> > "Wade," played by Joe Don Baker, appeared in 1995's _Goldeneye_, and
> > 1997's _Tomorrow Never Dies_, but, was absent from the subsequent
> > films in Ian Flemming's 007 franchise.
>
> And I didn't like the CIA guy in _Die Another Day_ either, he was a bad
> "arrogant American" stereotype.

What's particularly interesting about Joe Don Baker is that he was also in
_The Living Daylights_ (1987), the first Timothy Dalton Bond film, as
"Brad Whitaker", but he was more or less the same character, IIRC.  Why
change the name if you're gonna hire the same actor, I wonder.

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