Sydney Sweeney is being lined up to play the next Bond girl.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old actress is wanted by new 007 director Denis Villeneuve for a role in the upcoming movie and the Euphoria actress is also said to have the backing of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos – with the company acquiring creative control of the spy franchise from long-serving producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.<\/p>\n
A source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “Sydney is the top name on the casting sheet for Bond.<\/p>\n
“Denis believes she is hugely talented, as well as having an alluring appeal to younger generations, vital in modernising the franchise.<\/p>\n
“They’ve hung out together a lot and he has admired her stratospheric rise.<\/p>\n
“Plus Sydney has the quality of being athletic and able to perform physical scenes, as well as being feminine and following in the legacy of the Bond girls.”<\/p>\n
Denis was unveiled as the director of the next Bond film last month and has vowed to “honour the tradition” of the character – who will be played by a new actor in the picture after Daniel Craig bowed out as 007 in the 2021 movie No Time To Die.<\/p>\n
The Dune filmmaker said in a statement: “Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father, ever since Dr No with Sean Connery.<\/p>\n
“To me, he’s sacred territory. I intend to honour the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come.”<\/p>\n
Amazon MGM’s Mike Hopkins commented: “Denis has delivered compelling worlds, dynamic visuals, complex characters, and – most importantly – the immersive storytelling that global audiences yearn to experience in theatres.<\/p>\n
“James Bond is in the hands of one of today’s greatest filmmakers and we cannot wait to get started on 007’s next adventure.”<\/p>\n
Sydney has become one the most sought-after stars in Hollywood and explained that she is keen to take parts that “challenge” her.<\/p>\n
The Immaculate star told W magazine: “In general, if something scares me, then usually I\u2019m going to do it, because that means I\u2019m challenging myself.”<\/p>\n
She also revealed that she doesn’t get nervous about flashing the flesh for nude scenes.<\/p>\n
Sydney said: “I don\u2019t get nervous [about shooting nude scenes].<\/p>\n
“I think that the female body is a very powerful thing. And I\u2019m telling my character\u2019s story, so I owe it to them to tell it well and to do what needs to be done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney is being lined up to play the next Bond girl. The 27-year-old actress is wanted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[324,86850,99771,85289,77,627,99772,3943,24808,16,15,99773],"class_list":{"0":"post-260424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-barbara-broccoli","10":"tag-bond-girls","11":"tag-denis-villeneuve","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-james-bond","14":"tag-michael-g-wilson","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-sydney-sweeney","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-upcoming-movie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}