{"id":599167,"date":"2026-08-29T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:52:10","slug":"who-should-play-the-new-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599167\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Play the New James Bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a recent Page Six report by Tatiana Siegel<\/a>, we have our finalists to play James Bond in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s crack at 007 with Amazon MGM Studios: Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Callum Turner, Jack Lowden, Harris Dickinson, and\u2026 Jack Barton. So who the hell is that?<\/p>\n

Barton is a British actor who\u2019s had roles in the film<\/a> \u201cPoor Things\u201d and on Netflix\u2019s queer young-adult series \u201cHeartstopper,\u201d but Bond would be his first big-screen leading role. Oscar-nominated Nina Gold is handling the search for a new 007, but with Barton, the franchise\u2019s original casting director Debbie McWilliams would get her wish for the new Bond to be a complete unknown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"COYOTE<\/a> \"Orlando<\/a> <\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s episode of IndieWire\u2019s \u201cScreen Talk<\/a>\u201d podcast, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio assess the alleged finalists to determine which of them has the stuff to play James Bond. The answer is, mostly, none of them, irrespective of their acting abilities. We feel that \u201cSlow Horses\u201d star Jack Lowden is the best fit, but we\u2019re certainly intrigued by Barton. Elordi, for his part, is probably too tall to play a spy, and Dickinson is more invested in his filmmaking career<\/a>. Though right now he\u2019s welded to Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles movies playing John Lennon (in a social-media-controversial wig, by the way).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the podcast, we also debate whether Mark Ruffalo\u2019s recent comments about the Warnermount merger and Oracle CTO Larry Ellison\u2019s ties to the Israeli defense industry will hurt his career. Paramount labeled his remarks as antisemitism, and for now, they\u2019re successfully distracting press attention from the not-widely-beloved merger. <\/p>\n

We also review Ridley Scott\u2019s mixed bag \u201cThe Dog Stars<\/a>,\u201d which stars Elordi, and doesn\u2019t undermine the fact that the \u201cEuphoria\u201d breakout is indeed a movie star who can carry a studio picture. All this and more in this week\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode below or on your preferred podcast platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a recent Page Six report by Tatiana Siegel, we have our finalists to play James Bond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,878,85,46,397,965,64603],"class_list":["post-599167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-podcasts","tag-screen-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}