{"id":664897,"date":"2026-11-02T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664897\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:38:09","slug":"jack-lowden-on-flattering-james-bond-rumors-gary-oldman-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664897\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Lowden On “Flattering” James Bond Rumors; Gary Oldman Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJack Lowden<\/a> has done little to deny that he\u2019s in the running to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with GQ magazine, the Scottish actor said being linked to 007 was \u201call very flattering\u201d and that he was honored to secure the approval of his Slow Horses co-star, Gary Oldman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline revealed last month<\/a> that Lowden was one of four actors expected to test for the lead role in Denis Villeneuve<\/a>\u2018s reboot of the spy franchise for Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tCallum Turner and Josh O\u2019Connor were also among the actors namechecked by Deadline\u2019s Justin Kroll. The fourth actor involved in the screen tests remains a mystery.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOh, Christ,\u201d Lowden responded to the Bond question from GQ. \u201cOn this\u2026 It\u2019s all very flattering. It\u2019s nice to be mentioned \u2013 for any role \u2013 and I\u2019m just not really going to add to the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cAs a young male actor, generally, the minute you\u2019re not playing a zany artist type, the minute you\u2019re in a suit, people fling it at you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Oldman tipping him for the role, Lowden said: \u201cIt\u2019s very nice, and Gary\u2019s a sweetheart \u2013 it\u2019s particularly lovely, coming from someone like him. But I don\u2019t really listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring an interview with Canada\u2019s Global in September, Oldman caused a storm of headlines<\/a> when he suggested that Bond had been cast.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been rumored that he\u2019s [Lowden] on the shortlist. We\u2019re going to find out pretty soon, aren\u2019t we? Because they have picked him. They have made their choice, but they have not announced it yet. So my fingers are crossed for Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne possible factor in Lowden\u2019s favor: Nina Gold, who cast the actor as River Cartwright in Slow Horses, is leading the search for Bond alongside Villeneuve and producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Lowden has done little to deny that he\u2019s in the running to replace Daniel Craig as James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5877,29343,146,52083,85,46,68037,29345,397],"class_list":["post-664897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-entertainment","tag-gary-oldman","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jack-lowden","tag-james-bond","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664897","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=664897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}