{"id":956508,"date":"2026-11-08T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/956508\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:58:09","slug":"bill-skarsgard-is-spent-playing-villains-but-would-for-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/956508\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd is ‘Spent’ Playing Villains, but Would for James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> won\u2019t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz\u2019s \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast, Skarsg\u00e5rd revealed he wasn\u2019t asked to test for Denis Villeneuve\u2019s reboot. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey didn\u2019t call me about James Bond<\/a>. I don\u2019t know what that was about,\u201d he joked. \u201cEvery single British, Australian [actor] \u2026 but maybe they were like, \u2018We can\u2019t do a Swede for this guy.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t even thrown into the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCasting rumors for the new Bond have recently reached a fever pitch, with names like Callum Turner, Josh O\u2019Connor and Jack Lowden swirling around. Most recently<\/a>, Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult were revealed to have screen-tested for the role.<\/p>\n

\n\tSkarsg\u00e5rd agreed with Horowitz that he wouldn\u2019t want to sign on for a decade plus of playing 007. \u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d he said. \u201cJust want to go in and do one Mads Mikkelsen villain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not something that I\u2019m actively looking for, but if I feel compelled to do something, yeah,\u201d Skarsg\u00e5rd continued. \u201cIt\u2019s the weird thing. A lot of people ask me, what goes into picking your roles or whatever and I don\u2019t really know how to say it other than I feel drawn or compelled to. It\u2019s something that you can\u2019t really put your words on it and describe why it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cBut I\u2019ve also noticed that I don\u2019t want to become jaded. Which means that I think I could probably go long stretches without working and waiting for something to be compelling enough for me to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Swedish actor is no stranger to a villainous character. He has played Pennywise in the \u201cIt\u201d movies, Count Orlok in Robert Eggers\u2019 \u201cNosferatu,\u201d Eric Draven in \u201cThe Crow\u201d and Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont in \u201cJohn Wick: Chapter 4.\u201d But he told Horowitz that he is becoming more discerning about the villain roles he takes on.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor a villain, it would have to be something that felt original to me, that was something that I hadn\u2019t done before,\u201d Skarsg\u00e5rd said. \u201cI feel, kind of, spent with those things. But there are villains [that] could be really fun in different ways and if it\u2019s the right kind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd won\u2019t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain. In a recent appearance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,523796,134,30108,344],"class_list":["post-956508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bill-skarsgu00e5rd","tag-entertainment","tag-james-bond","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}