Of Pierce Brosnan's performance and characterization of hitman Julian Noble, writer and director Richard Shepard said: "Pierce completely jumped into Julian, and has gone into places that I've never seen him do before. He's so funny and dark, so smart as an actor, and he brings it all to Julian. Julian's a strange, dark, off-kilter guy, and Pierce has achieved more with him than anything I had imagined. He gives Julian such twists and emotional comedy. There's a vulnerability that's refreshing." Further, producer Sean Furst said: "There's nothing more exciting to us than taking an actor and watching him play against type in a way that really surprises people. James Bond is a staple, and an actor playing him can't depart too far into the nether worlds. The idea that Pierce would be willing to be bold and dig deep, and create a character that at times is very dark, is so terrific." Moreover, producer Beau St. Clair said: "At the core, there's a familiarity to this type of character, an assassin, a killer, and yet there's a humanity to it that Pierce hasn't been able to access, in terms of the other characters he's played before in this genre. I love his performance in this movie. He's a very dark character, tormented, a killer, who is basically running out of steam, who's lost his way. I think Pierce inhabited this character from the beginning, from when he decided to do it. It's kind of electrifying to watch him play something so different and edgy." In addition, Greg Kinnear commented: "This takes all of the James Bond imagery of Pierce and mixes it up in a churner and spits it out in a way that you've not seen him before. He does some really interesting work in the movie."

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