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Julian McMahon in Running for 007
Source: http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8520
While he previously was believed to have passed on the role due to his Nip/Tuck schedule, UK's The Mirror now says Julian McMahon is one of two frontrunners for James Bond in the upcoming Casino Royale.
The 36-year-old Australian reportedly said: "I'm a big James Bond fan. I met the producers for a final audition. They told me to expect a decision in a couple of months and they said it was between me and one other person. It's going to be a very nervous wait."
The other person in the frame is believed to be British actor Clive Owen.
McMahon will next be seen on the big screen as Dr. Doom in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four.
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Is Fantastic Four's Doom Misunderstood?
Source: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30468
Julian McMahon, who plays the villainous Dr. Doom in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, said he views his character as both evil and misunderstood. "I see him as both," McMahon said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "Initially—and this is the way we start him off in the movie, and it was really taken from the original comics— ... he's a man who is pretty much reasonably egotistical. Very much set on getting what he wants out of life and will do whatever he has to do and can do to make sure that he gets that."
But when the character, the industrial tycoon Victor Von Doom, gets zapped with cosmic rays during a disastrous space mission, he begins to change. "When the circumstances happen to him that happen to him in the movie and everything kind of turns against him, I think it's almost a natural progression for him to go [off], if that makes sense," McMahon said. "He has villainous qualities, because he will trample you. ... Even just as a businessman, before he became this Dr. Doom thing, he would run over you if he had to. He didn't care. ... And then on top of that it's kind of, I call it the disintegration of a human being. And that's kind of what happens to him in the movie and also what happens to him in the comics."
At a WonderCon panel, Australian native McMahon likened Von Doom to a countryman, Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire managing director of News Corp.—which just happens to own 20th Century Fox, the studio that is distributing Fantastic Four. McMahon quickly realized his faux pas and backpedaled. Speaking after the panel, he said, "I shouldn't have [said that], and I take it back." But, he added, "you know there's only a certain few men on this planet that are visually those type of men that we know have that kind of power and money. And I think Rupert's one of them." Fantastic Four opens July 8.
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McMahon's Return Is Charmed
Source: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30448
Julian McMahon, who will reprise the role of Cole in an upcoming episode of The WB's Charmed, told SCI FI Wire that his reappearance bookends his involvement with the show. "I loved working on the show," McMahon (Fantastic Four) said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "And I love playing that character. And the show and the show runners and that character really kind of gave me a lot as far as an actor is concerned. And I feel like where I'm at now is really attributed to what they allowed me to do on Charmed. ... And so for me going [back] is a no-brainer."
McMahon returns as Cole Turner, the half-human/half-demon ex-husband of Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano). Though Cole died in an earlier episode, his spirit will meet Piper's (Holly Marie Combs) in the cosmic space between life and death, where he will help reunite her with Leo (Brian Krause), according to a report on TheCharmedOnes.com.
Since leaving Charmed, McMahon has gained fame as one of the stars of F/X's Nip/Tuck and will soon appear as the villainous Dr. Doom in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie. But there is a certain symmetry to his guest appearance on the show where he first got noticed, he said. "It's their 150th episode," he said. "I was killed in the 100th, and I come back in the 150th. I'll go back for the 200th if they have one. And if I was asked. But, you know, it was just ... a great character to play. It was great fun going back and [filling] those shoes again. It really was." The 150th episode, "The Seven Year Witch," is slated to air in April. Charmed airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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