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Dept. Q's Matthew Goode may have the charm, the poise, and the jawline of a classic Bond, but it turns out he never even got a shot at the iconic role.
In a recent interview, the actor revealed why he didn’t get to audition for James Bond, despite the buzz around his name. And let’s just say his brutally honest and very un‑007‑like vision for the character might’ve been a little too dark for the franchise’s taste.
Speaking about why he didn't get to audition for Bond, he told Josh Horowitz from the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast that he met the then-producer of the franchise, Barbara Broccoli, and gave some dark ideas for the 007 agent, which might have gotten him off the roster. Goode said,
"I didn't audition. I went in and met Barbara [Broccoli]. I didn't get to the audition. But it was quite a funny one because — and she's gorgeous and just a lovely, lovely person — she was like, 'So what's your idea for Bond?' And I was like, 'My idea for Bond. We've gotta take it back to the books, you know? Really, we absolutely have to make this guy an alcoholic, a drug addict. He hates himself. He hates women. He hates a lot of people. He's in deep pain. He's brilliant at killing people.'"
He then added,
"I think by the end of the interview, she was like, 'Mhmm. Next.' I wanted to make it really dark. But what I should have said was, 'But also incredibly charming.'"
Of course, the role then went to Daniel Craig, who has been playing it with brilliance for more than a decade now. However, Goode got his own share of a crime thriller as he went on to star in Netflix's Dept. Q, a show that has been one of the top watches for the genre, has seen immense popularity on the streaming giant.
Matthew Goode in Dept. Q
Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck isn’t your average noir anti-hero; he’s a walking wound stitched together with sarcasm.
In Dept. Q, Matthew Goode strips away every trace of suave charm to deliver a raw, unsparing portrayal of a man broken by violence and clinging to duty. Shot in a deadly ambush that left his partner paralyzed and another colleague dead, Carl is tossed into the cold-case basement of Dept. Q, not as a promotion, but as punishment. And he wears it like a second skin.
Goode’s version of Carl is brilliantly bitter. He spits out barbed insults like they’re lifelines, growling his way through therapy sessions with lines like, “I had problems with human beings long before I was shot.” But beneath the growl, there’s something brittle, a flicker of pain that makes Dept. Q is far more than a procedural. It’s a character study with blood under its nails.
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With scuffed knuckles, sunken eyes, and an edge of desperation, Carl Morck feels like a man who’s seen hell and built a desk there. Dept. Q isn’t just his redemption arc, it’s his reckoning. And in Goode’s hands, Carl becomes the broken compass guiding this bleak, brilliant crime drama.
Dept. Q is available to stream on Netflix.
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