{"id":104576,"date":"2025-07-30T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104576\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:35:10","slug":"taron-egerton-says-hes-too-messy-to-play-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104576\/","title":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Too Messy&#8221; To Play James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taron-egerton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taron-egerton\" data-tag=\"taron-egerton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taron Egerton<\/a> has ruled himself out of playing <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-bond\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-bond\" data-tag=\"james-bond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond<\/a>, saying he\u2019s \u201ctoo messy\u201d to star as the polished super spy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amazon-mgm-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm-studios\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM Studios<\/a> is officially on the hunt for the next 007 after setting <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/denis-villeneuve\/\" id=\"auto-tag_denis-villeneuve\" data-tag=\"denis-villeneuve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Villeneuve<\/a> as the film\u2019s director under a producing team of Amy Pascal and David Heyman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEgerton, 35, said he was not the right fit for the role in the post-<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-craig\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-craig\" data-tag=\"daniel-craig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Craig<\/a> era, and that there were younger actors who should be ready to take on the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI think I\u2019m too messy for that. I think I\u2019m not [the right fit]\u2014 I really love James Bond and particularly Daniel Craig\u2019s tenure,\u201d the Kingsman: The Golden Circle star told Collider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBut I think I wouldn\u2019t be good at it, and I think there\u2019s so many cool, younger actors who would be great for it. I think it would be wasted on me, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEgerton added that Bond would be \u201cquite an undertaking\u201d at a stage in his career where he is keen to explore new kinds of roles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAs far as I\u2019m aware, nobody\u2019s asking me to do it. But also, it\u2019s possibly not quite the thing that would make me happiest,\u201d he said. \u201cIt kind of consumes your life, a role like that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt\u2019s not the first time Egerton, a Welshman who recently starred in Netflix hit movie Carry-On, has eschewed talk of James Bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a 2023 interview with The Daily Telegraph, he said: \u201cYou have to be consistently statuesque to be that guy. And that\u2019s something that I am still striving for. I\u2019ve always struggled with my weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVariety reported last month that Jacob Elordi, Tom Holland, and Harris Dickinson were among the names on Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Bond wishlist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton has ruled himself out of playing James Bond, saying he\u2019s \u201ctoo messy\u201d to star as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[18423,67398,15222,171,15223,53,67399,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","9":"tag-daniel-craig","10":"tag-denis-villeneuve","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-james-bond","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-taron-egerton","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941744072903838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}