The name’s Brosnan…

When we released the images for our new James Bond Special Stamps, which go on general sale on Tuesday 17 March, our Twitter account was bombarded with praise and customer’s views on who the greatest Bond is.

Out of our six character stamps featuring each of the big-screen Bonds, perhaps the lion’s share of compliments went to the one and only Pierce Brosnan.

The man himself even tweeted from his @PierceBrosnan account: ‘To see my image on an @RoyalMail stamp that celebrates the upcoming Bond movie, ‘No Time to Die,’ and to be in the company of my fellow actors who each created the role of Bond with their own unique charisma and talent is certainly one for the books.’

In 1995, Brosnan became the fifth actor to play Bond when he appeared in GoldenEye. He returned for three more films, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day before bidding farewell to the role in 2002.

Following Timothy Dalton’s early exit, it was time to introduce a Bond for the ‘90s. By the time GoldenEye, arguably Brosnan’s strongest 007, was released, it had been six years since the last Bond film — the longest interval in the history of the franchise — and filmmakers knew that they had to make a statement. The opening scene of Goldeneye, which saw 007 as a lone operative bungee-jumping a jaw-dropping 750ft down a dam (the real-life Verzasca Dam in Locarno, Switzerland) to infiltrate a Russian base, is seen by many as one of the most famous stunts in movie history.

While the Irish-American actor excelled in plenty of Bond’s action scenes, it was Brosnan’s prowess at delivering innuendo-laden one-liners with aplomb that put him alongside Sean Connery and Roger Moore as the very best 007s.

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