“It was called ‘007: Road to a Million.’ I thought it was the new James Bond film,” the Scottish actor told Jimmy Fallon.
On Prime Video’s new James Bond-themed reality competition show 007: Road to a Million, actor Brian Cox portrays “The Controller,” the purported mastermind behind the series who sends contestants on various Bondian quests.
Now, that’s a plum gig, but maybe not quite as plum as the one the Succession star assumed he was being offered when Cox was first approached about the show.
“Well, you see…it was called 007: Road to a Million,” Cox told Fallon. “I thought it was the new James Bond film.
So I said, ‘Oh, finally, they’re getting me in a James Bond movie.’ I said, ‘Yes, of course!’
There was no script. And there was no James Bond movie. So I was doing this reality show…For years I thought, I’d love to be a James Bond villain, it’d be really interesting and I thought, this is my moment. But it wasn’t.”
Watch Cox talking about his mistake with Fallon in the clip below.