Pension Bond? It appears James Bond has gone under cover.
Pierce Brosnan looks unrecognizable in new photos for his upcoming sports movie.
In the snaps, Brosnan — who still has a full head of hair and a solid build at 70 — can be seen sporting thinning white hair, more wrinkles than usual and a frailer look to his body than he typically has, as the usually debonair actor slouches in a tracksuit.
The look is for Brosnan’s new movie “Giant,” a boxing movie that tells the story of an important friendship in sports history.
Brosnan is playing Brendan Ingle — the Irish boxing trainer that helped “Prince” Naseem Hamed rise to become a star.
The real Ingle died in 2018 at age 77. During his career, in addition to Hamed, he trained three other world champions: Johnny Nelson, Junior Witter and Kell Brook.
Hamed, now 50, is a British-Yemeni former boxer. The peak of his career was from 1992 to 2002. He held several featherweight world championships between 1995 and 2000, and is a celebrated figure in British sports.
The movie will follow his rise in the boxing world, his less-than-glamorous origins in working class Sheffield and the unorthodox training Ingle put him through, which led to his success.
Per Deadline, the movie’s official synopsis reads: “Giant is the true story of Hamed’s humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his...