Taron Egerton responds to “James Bond” casting rumors

• Taron Egerton believes he is not the “right choice” to portray James Bond.
• Idris Elba put the rumours of him portraying 007 to bed earlier this month.
• Elba’s name was mentioned long before Daniel Craig’s final appearance as 007.

“It’s sort of irrelevant how I feel about it, anyway, because I can tell you there have been zero phone calls,” the actor said of playing 007.

Taron Egerton believes he is not the “right choice” to portray James Bond.

In an interview published Saturday, the Kingsman star addressed fan speculation that he may portray the next James Bond.

“I don’t think I’m the right choice for it,” Egerton explained. “You have to be consistently statuesque to be that guy. And that’s something that I am still striving for. I’ve always struggled with my weight.”

The Golden Globe winner did say that playing Bond “is a bit like being a brand ambassador as well as being an actor. And that could be really fun in microcosm, but I’m sure I read that [producer] Barbara Broccoli said that it’s a 15-year commitment.”

However, he clarified, “It’s sort of irrelevant how I feel about it, anyway, because I can tell you there have been zero phone calls.”

Idris Elba put the rumours of him portraying 007 to bed earlier this month, claiming that he was “nowhere” to being cast as Bond.

“I love the Bond franchise, I’m very close to the producers,” Elba, 50, told The Guardian. “We were all kind of laughing about the rumors because they are just that.”

He continued: “I can’t speak for [the producers], but from my perspective, there’s never been any sort of truth to any of it. It’s a compliment, and it’s an honor — but it’s not a truth.”

Elba’s name was mentioned long before Daniel Craig’s final appearance as 007 in 2021’s No Time to Die, when Sony Pictures CEO Amy Pascal stated in a leaked 2014 email that “Idris should be the next Bond.”

Broccoli has since said that “nobody’s in the running” for the starring role, noting last June: “There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is, and that takes time.”

“I think we have decided that until No Time to Die has kind of had its run and Daniel has been able to, well, we’ve all been able to, reap the benefits of Daniel’s wonderful tenure, we’re not gonna think about or talk about anybody else, actors to play the role or storylines or anything. We just wanna live in the moment, the present,” added Broccoli.

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