In current 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 have no thoughts, really,” he instructed Deadline this afternoon with a smile. “The truth is that … I think in the space of a week, I made a joke about, wouldn’t it be funny if I played Bond? Then, me and Daniel [Craig] did an Actors on Actors, and then something else happened, and then suddenly I was James Bond. If I am Bond, I don’t know about it.”
O’Connor’s feedback got here throughout an look at Deadline’s Sundance Studio in help of his new drama, Rebuilding, by which he performs Dusty, a cowboy trying to start once more after seeing his ranch burn down in devastating Colorado wildfires. Among these showing alongside him at present was co-star Kali Reis — greatest identified for her Emmy-nominated flip in True Detective: Night Country — who joked on the prospect of his taking part in Bond, saying, “Just as long as I can be your sidekick.”
O’Connor is simply the most recent of many actors rumored for Bond, one of the crucial intently 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 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 most up-to-date 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 Street Journal, which is alleged to have resulted in a inventive deadlock. That can 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 reasonably full slate to take care of for the time being. Coming off rave evaluations 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 Dead Man, in addition to Steven Spielberg’s untitled occasion movie for Universal and Amblin. Other upcoming initiatives embrace Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind and Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound.
For video of our chat with O’Connor on Rebuilding, examine again later.