According to longtime Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz’s new memoir Who is Michael Ovitz?, Michael Jackson once told him he wanted to play James Bond. 

The agent remembered a night he met Michael Jackson at a party: “As he talked, his hat fell into the guacamole in front of him, and he picked it out and put it back on – unfortunately, with a blob of guacamole attached, which began to slide down the brim. Ron Meyer tapped my leg to draw my attention to it, and we all watched in horrified fascination as it slid lower and lower while Michael was pitching us hard on how he was America’s next action hero. Then the blob fell off, and Ron totally lost it. I cracked up, too, and Michael stalked out,” he recalled. 

Unfortunately, the pop star didn’t take their laughter light-heartedly so he turned away. 

“I went and found him and explained for fifteen minutes that we hadn’t been laughing at him, but at the incident. … Finally, Michael’s face cleared. ‘Okay, Ovitz. Okay,’ he said. ‘But I want to play James Bond.’ I am proud to report I didn’t laugh, this time,” he wrote.

The agent informed him that he might not be the right fit for the role, saying, “You’re thinly built, you’re too sensitive, you won’t be credible as a block of stone. You’d be great at it, of course, but it’d be bad for you.”