George Lazenby, who performed 007 in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, has endorsed the present frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson to take over as the following James Bond.
Talking to TMZ, Lazenby stated he believed Taylor-Johnson, “can deal with the stunts, and all the women who love a person in a tux”.
The Australian actor added that he understood that Taylor-Johnson had not but been formally provided the position, on condition that his personal expertise concerned a number of exams and auditions. He continued by saying he could be blissful to help the youthful actor, offered Taylor-Johnson may “do the character justice”.
Final week, Taylor-Johnson was tipped within the Solar to be a shoo-in for the position, with Eon productions having put in a proper supply, forward of a deliberate manufacturing begin on the twenty sixth Bond film later this 12 months.
However in an interview with GQ carried out earlier than the Solar’s report, Taylor-Johnson appeared to rule himself out of rivalry, saying: “I don’t really feel like I must have a future drawn out for me. I really feel like, no matter’s drawn out for me, I can fucking do higher.”
He continued by saying that he “doesn’t essentially need … doing one motion film after one other” to be his “model”.
Taylor-Johnson’s attainable casting led to the hashtag #BoycottJamesBond trending on X as posters stated they’d now not watch the franchise if a Jewish actor was solid within the lead position.
The actor, 33, informed the Guardian in 2015 that he was happy when somebody informed him he resembled a trendy Hasidic Jew. “That was good as a result of I’ve actually curly hair and in addition I’m Jewish,” he stated.
Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond got here to an finish after 5 movies with 2021’s No Time to Die. Names rumoured to be within the cross-hairs to take over have included Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, James Norton, Regé-Jean Web page and Idris Elba.
