May Jack Lowden be the following James Bond?
Throughout an interview Sunday with the Related Press, Saoirse Ronan, who has been married to Lowden since 2024, was requested in regards to the ongoing rumors concerning her husband.
As a substitute of answering straight, the Irish actress merely stated, “Effectively, Gary Oldman thinks he is James Bond,” referring to Lowden’s co-star in “Gradual Horses.”
“[That’s] it is its personal factor,” Ronan continued, smiling. “We’re type of getting our lives again, to be sincere. Now we have many different issues to type out.
“So, yeah, it is not likely a subject that comes up in our home, to be sincere. Strolling the canine, making dinner, that is what we deal with essentially the most.”
The “Girl Fowl” star additionally famous that her husband is filming “Gradual Horses” for the time being and is “having a good time on it proper now.”
Ronan, notably, nominated herself to play a Bond villain in August.
“I need to go darkish,” the 32-year-old advised Empire. “I stated I wished to be a Bond villain and I’m very critical.”
Rumors about Lowden’s attainable Bond casting heated up after Oldman claimed his co-star was one of many favorites to play the enduring undercover agent.
“He is been rumored to be on the shortlist,” Oldman advised Canada International Information final month.
“We’ll discover out very quickly, aren’t we? As a result of they selected it. They made their alternative, however they have not introduced it but. So I am crossing my fingers for Jack.”
Moreover, Oldman revealed a shortlist of six to play Bond on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition on September 10.
“I heard a rumor that they solid James Bond, however they have not introduced it but, which is their prerogative,” the “Darkest Hour” actor stated throughout a panel.
Oldman additionally joked, nonetheless, that he has no credibility in terms of the Bond movies, so he does not know why individuals take his opinion as truth.
“As if I had a purple telephone [to the Bond people]“, he joked.
Lowden, 36, has but to reply to the newest 007 rumors.
In February 2025, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson handed over artistic management of the Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios.
Since then, the corporate has been on the lookout for the precise actor to steer the franchise for the following movie, which will likely be helmed by “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve.
Lowden – together with Jacob Elordi, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner, Paul Mescal and Harris Dickinson – would have been the following essential man.
Final month, Web page Six Hollywood solely reported that Jack Barton, who had a small function in Emma Stone’s 2023 movie “Poor Issues,” was the favourite to be the brand new Bond.
Daniel Craig was the final actor to play James Bond, stepping down from the franchise following 2021’s “No Time to Die” after starring in 5 movies.
Earlier than Craig, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan all performed Bond.