In latest months, Josh O’Connor has discovered himself the topic of some hypothesis suggesting that he could also be our subsequent James Bond. So, what does the actor take into consideration the matter?
“I’ve no ideas, actually,” he instructed Deadline this afternoon with a smile. “The reality is that … I believe within the area of per week, I made a joke about, wouldn’t or not it’s humorous if I performed Bond? Then, me and Daniel [Craig] did an Actors on Actors, after which one thing else occurred, after which all of the sudden I used to be James Bond. If I’m Bond, I don’t learn about it.”
O’Connor’s feedback got here throughout an look at Deadline’s Sundance Studio in help of his new drama, Rebuilding, through which he performs Dusty, a cowboy seeking to start once more after seeing his ranch burn down in devastating Colorado wildfires. Amongst these showing alongside him at the moment was co-star Kali Reis — finest recognized for her Emmy-nominated flip in True Detective: Night time Nation — who joked on the prospect of his enjoying Bond, saying, “Simply so long as I may be your sidekick.”
O’Connor is simply the newest of many actors rumored for Bond, one of the carefully watched elements on the town, at a time when the way forward for the franchise seems up within the air. (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Regé-Jean Web page, Sam Heughan, Tom Hardy and Henry Cavill are among the many others who’ve been mentioned in the identical breath because the franchise.)
The newest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, marked the ultimate look as Bond for Craig, who’s been on the awards circuit this season with A24’s Queer. That movie premiered in 2021, and for now, it stays unclear after we’ll see one other installment transfer towards manufacturing. The prospect could also be hampered by an alleged feud reported on by the Wall Road Journal, which is alleged to have resulted in a inventive deadlock. That may be between Amazon, which acquired Bond studio MGM for $6.5 billion in 2022, and the Broccoli household, which controls the franchise.
In any case, O’Connor has a fairly full slate to take care of for the time being. Coming off rave opinions for his work reverse Zendaya and Mike Faist in Luca Guadagnino’s tennis love triangle pic Challengers, he’ll quickly be seen starring reverse former Bond Craig in Rian Johnson’s new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Useless Man, in addition to Steven Spielberg’s untitled occasion movie for Common and Amblin. Different upcoming tasks embrace Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind and Oliver Hermanus’s The Historical past of Sound.
For video of our chat with O’Connor on Rebuilding, examine again later.
