Brian Cox, from James Bond's dream to TV reality

From the dream of playing James Bond on reality TV, there is only one step that Brian Cox has happily taken. Contacted by the producers of the Bond films, the British actor, the patriarch of the successful series Succession, signed with both hands his participation as host in a program entitled 007: Road to a Million, which would be reflected in the language of Molière 007: the road to winning 1 million pounds sterling.

True naive or eternal dreamer, at first Brian Cox really believed that he would participate in a new James Bond mission, as he admitted on The Tonight Show: "I thought that a happy The hour had arrived.

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Unfortunately for him, it was only a question of animating a game which takes up all the codes of the saga of the best agent of His gracious Majesty. Now transformed into a “controller”, the actor must direct the candidates during tests which reenact the prowess of 007 in the films.

For these apprentice spies, it will therefore be necessary to perform stunts on a cable car like in the famous scene from Moonraker where Roger Moore fought against his favorite villain Richard Kiel aka Shark. This game will bring together some 18 participants in duos (friends, siblings or couples). After climbing steep mountains, jumping from a moving train or diving off a cliff, to win the famous million pounds they will have to answer Bondian culture questions asked by Brian Fox. And the latter promised, as a true admirer of the gesture of the hero of MI6, to never betray the spirit of the inventor of James Bond, Sir Ian Fleming. This reality mission will begin on November 10 at 1 a.m. on Prime Video. The countdown begins...