Гэвч жүжигчин дүрийн сонгон шалгаруулалтад оролцсон эсэх болон татгалзсан тухай мэдээлэл батлагдаагүй байна.
Дэниел Крэйг Бондын дүрээ орхисноос хойш 007-ийн дараагийн дүрийг хэн бүтээх тухай таамаг үргэлжилж байна. Энэ долоо хоногт Роберт Паттинсон, Николас Холт нар дүрийн сорилд уригдсан гэх мэдээлэл гарч, Жош О’Коннор, Каллум Тёрнер, Жек Лоуден нарын нэр ч яригджээ.
Үүний дараа The Daily Mail нэрээ нууцалсан эх сурвалжаас эш татан, О’Коннор Бондын дүрээс татгалзсан гэж мэдээлсэн байна. Харин жүжигчин сонгон шалгаруулалтад оролцсон эсэх, татгалзсан гэх мэдээлэл албан ёсоор батлагдаагүй бөгөөд өмнө нь энэ тухай асуухад “Үгүй, үгүй. Харъя, гэхдээ эргэлзэж байна” хэмээн хариулж байжээ.
The Crown цувралд ханхүү Чарльзын дүр бүтээж, Эмми хүртсэн О’Коннор хэвлэл мэдээллийн анхаарлаас зайлсхийдэг гэдгээрээ танигдсан. Тэрээр Challengers киноны Лондоны нээлтийн үеэр гэр бүл нь улаан хивсэн дээр байхад гэрэл зурагчид нэрийг нь хашхирсан нь хэт их дарамт болсон тухай ярьж, хэвлэлийн аялан тоглолтыг ядаргаатай, заримдаа айдас төрүүлэм гэж тодорхойлж байв.
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The journey to find James Bond has been an odyssey of cinematic proportions: full of twists and turns, rugpulls and eleventh hour curveballs. And yet… still no dice. It’s enough to make you nostalgic for a simpler time, back when Bond speculation seemed to amount to little more than a two-horse contest between Idris Elba and Tom Hardy.
Over the five years since Daniel Craig hung up his holster, the question of 007’s new identity has thrown the world for a loop time and time again. Just this week, as studio execs finally seemed to be closing in on their three final contenders, rumours emerged that not one but two previously unmentioned A-listers had been invited to screen test for the role, with Robert Pattison and Nicholas Hoult suddenly in the running right there alongside Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, and Jack Lowden.
Perhaps the only predictable, or even inevitable, thing about this whole episodic affair is the latest development claiming that one of those aforementioned frontrunners has withdrawn from consideration. A source told The Daily Mail simply: “Josh has turned down the Bond role.”
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True or not, I’d wager O’Connor is likely getting cold feet about the whole thing. (If he was even being considered in the first place, that is; let’s not forget that stories about the Bond casting saga are based on reports, rumours, and unnamed sources that 007 wouldn’t trust with the keys to his car, let alone his life.) The actor has certainly played it coy whenever he’s been asked about it. “No, no, no. We’ll see but I doubt it,” he said.
That’s not to say O’Connor isn’t good enough to play Ian Fleming’s dapper spy. The problem is, much like Pattinson, for that matter, he’s arguably too good. Since breaking out as Prince Charles in The Crown, a performance for which he won an Emmy, he has proven himself to be one of his generation’s most brilliant actors, possessing the kind of mercurial and shapeshifting abilities that make him so compelling to watch, whether as a Yorkshire sheepfarmer (God’s Own Country), a cocky tennis player (Challengers), a cybersecurity specialist with alien gifts (Disclosure Day), a pompous clergyman (Emma), a young priest wrestling with his faith (Dead Man Walking), or a violinist-turned-boxer in the Almeida Theatre’s recent five-star production of Golden Boy.
Certainly it’s too much talent to be squandered on just one character, no matter how coveted it may be. Similarly it’s hard to believe that an actor who seeks out projects as experimental as 2023’s dreamlike drama La Chimera would be keen to devote the next 10 years to what may just be a cut-and-dry blockbuster franchise. (Even if it is one directed by Denis Villeneuve.)
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But the real reason why O’Connor’s alleged exit makes so much sense is because of everything outside of acting – namely the fact that he is famously press shy, and seems to find the attention of media and fans excruciating at the best of times. Recalling the London premiere of Challengers, for example, the sexy tennis throuple film with Zendaya that was one of his biggest releases to date, O’Connor told a journalist that the experience – specifically the meeting of his two worlds, as he saw his family on the red carpet alongside a wall of photographers screaming his name – was so overwhelming that he had to excuse himself to go to the bathroom and cry. Elsewhere, he described the press tour as exhausting, confusing, and sometimes scary.
He’s also previously voiced discomfort at hearing comments about his appearance – whether good or bad – but Ian Fleming’s spy is widely seen as a sex symbol. I don’t know how many times I saw that clip of Daniel Craig getting out of the ocean in skimpy white briefs on my timeline, but I’d bet that O’Connor wouldn’t love thirst traps GIFs of him circulating on the internet in quite the same way.
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He’s also very, very offline and not in the performative way of some of his industry peers, but in a way that feels genuine. When he told a red carpet reporter back in 2024 that he didn’t know what TikTok was, it was endearing because it was believable. Since then, O’Connor has maintained an unusually distant relationship with social media and press despite his rising star. He has, for example, phased out his Instagram account – where he used to post photos of his ceramics, photography and embroidery – before deleting it altogether, alongside Facebook and X.
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Of course that elusive quality might work in his favour with casting director Nina Gold, who may well be looking for an actor with an air of mystery about him – a crucial component to any Bond worth his martini, according to the franchise’s previous casting director Debbie McWilliams. Her choices in the past, like Craig and Pierce Brosnan, proposed more of a blank canvas than, say, Callum Turner, whose honeymoon with pop star Dua Lipa was plastered all over the tabloids for about a week. All this to say, it’s tough to picture O’Connor wishing to embark on the kind of all-consuming, juggernaut press tours that would be required of him as James Bond.
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Whether O’Connor has withdrawn from consideration or not, it’s a win-win for his fans. Best case, he’s turned it down and we’ll be treated to an array of interesting choices and fantastic performances from the actor for decades to come. Worst case, he’s the next Bond – and nobody’s going to complain about that.
