“It was called ‘007: Road to a Million.’ I thought it was the new James Bond film,” the Scottish actor told Jimmy Fallon.

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On Prime Video’s new James Bond-themed reality competition show 007: Road to a Million, actor Brian Cox portrays “The Controller,” the purported mastermind behind the series who sends contestants on various Bondian quests.

Now, that’s a plum gig, but maybe not quite as plum as the one the Succession star assumed he was being offered when Cox was first approached about the show.

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Turns out, the Scotsman thought he had been asked to play the villain in a new James Bond movie, as he revealed Tuesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“Well, you see…it was called 007: Road to a Million,” Cox told Fallon. “I thought it was the new James Bond film.

So I said, ‘Oh, finally, they’re getting me in a James Bond movie.’ I said, ‘Yes, of course!’

There was no script. And there was no James Bond movie. So I was doing this reality show…For years I thought, I’d love to be a James Bond villain, it’d be really interesting and I thought, this is my moment. But it wasn’t.”

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What would Logan Roy have said? Something we couldn’t print in full here, no doubt. Still, Cox admitted he had a good time making the show.

“It was fun, it was great fun,” he said. “I mean, I love bossing people around. I bossed all these people around. It’s a really good show.”

Watch Cox talking about his mistake with Fallon in the clip below.