Half Hugo Drax, half Richard Branson, Toby Stephens’ cocksure braggart swaggers through Die Another Day like a dick on legs. Sadly he’s just a dick: an uber-wealthy loon whose rampant insanity – a side effect of the genetic makeover that transformed him from Korean renegade Will Yun Lee – manifests itself in groansome puns ("what a wonderful day to become a knight,” “as we say in fencing, what’s the point?”) and a scenery-chewing exuberance he surely gets from his mother, Harry Potter star Maggie Smith. Stephens would go on to play Bond himself in a 2008 Radio 4 adaptation of Dr No.
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