Saoirse Ronan is addressing a rumor that her husband, Jack Lowden, has been cast as the next James Bond.
In a new interview, Ronan was asked about Lowden portraying the 007 agent in the film franchise.
“Well, Gary Oldman thinks he’s James Bond,” Ronan said in an interview with the Associated Press.
She continued, “[That’s] its own thing. We’re kind of getting on with our life, to be honest. We have plenty of other things to be dealing with. So, yeah, it’s not really a subject that’s coming up in our house, to be honest. The dog needs to be walked, the dinner needs to be made—we’re most focused on that.”
Lowden’s name came up during an interview in September, when Oldman said he wanted his Slow Horses co-star to take on the iconic action role.
“It’s been rumored that he’s on the shortlist,” Oldman told Global News. “We’re going to find out pretty soon, aren’t we? Because they have picked him. They have made their choice, but they have not announced it yet. So my fingers are crossed for Jack.”
Ronan herself has pitched herself to play a villain in the James Bond universe.
“I want to go dark,” she told Empire. “I said that I wanted to be a Bond villain and I’m dead serious.”
She continued, “I think it would be really interesting, having a young female villain. Especially for girls and women, to see someone who can just take all that pent-up anger and direct it somewhere, there’s something interesting in that dramatically. So I would love to do more of that.”
In March of this year, Deadline reported that Nina Gold had closed a deal to become the casting director for the next James Bond film. Gold’s credits include HBO’s Game of Thrones, the Netflix series The Crown, and five films in the Star Wars franchise.
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