United Kingdom, Sept. 15 -- Charles Dance has no regrets about turning down the chance to play James Bond because he would have "f***** it up".

The Games of Thrones star made his feature film debut in 1981's For Your Eyes Only which featured Sir Roger Moore as 007 and he also played Bond's creator in 1989 TV movie Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming but he was actually offered the chance to screen test for the role of James Bond but he turned it down.

Dance explained his agent advised him not to try out for Bond over fears he would get typecast, telling The Daily Telegraph newspaper: "And she [my agent] may have been right, although I also wasn't ready for Bond. I had the confidence but not the experience, I would have f***** it u...