{"id":70228,"date":"2025-10-12T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:31:08","slug":"rebecca-ferguson-insists-that-she-is-not-in-the-next-james-bond-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70228\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Ferguson Insists That She Is Not In The Next James Bond Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

A House of Dynamite star Rebecca Ferguson may seem to have an inside track on a role in Bond 26<\/a>, given her connections to the project\u2019s director Denis Villeneuve and writer Steven Knight.<\/p>\n

But Ferguson insists she has not used those connections to land a role in the next James Bond movie<\/a>, though she admitted in a recent interview with The Times<\/a> that if the subject had come up with Knight while the two were working on their upcoming Peaky Blinders spinoff The Immortal Man, she might have lobbied for a villain role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have been pushing to play the baddie,\u201d she said when asked if Knight was on-set when news broke of his being hired to write Bond 26 (the news was actually confirmed this July, months after the December wrap date of The Immortal Man).<\/p>\n

The ever-candid Ferguson then gave her thoughts about the Bond series\u2019 spotty history when it comes to female characters:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a female Bond villain. I already said that to Denis \u2014 \u2018female Bond villain, b–ch!\u2019 He was like, \u2018Oh l\u00e0 l\u00e0.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been many female Bond villains<\/a> throughout the course of the long-running series, but never has one risen to become an iconic main antagonist on the level of a Blofeld or Goldfinger. Ferguson suggests Knight may be the man to change this:<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the Bonds, most of them, but I often found that they weren\u2019t very good at writing for women. [But Knight] wrote Maria [the Maria Callas biopic] for Angelina Jolie \u2014 he\u2019s written loads of good female roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ilsa
\n Ilsa is looking to the side in Mission Impossible Fallout<\/p>\n

Ferguson\u2019s seeming Bond qualifications extend to her having major experience in the spy genre, after starring alongside Tom Cruise in three Mission: Impossible movies. Her time on that franchise did not end happily for her, however, as she related in a 2024 interview with WrapWomen’s UnWrapped Podcast (via The Wrap).<\/p>\n

The Ilsa Faust actor said in the interview that she loved the character because she was a rogue element, and suggested the role got less interesting the more Ilsa became part of Ethan Hunt\u2019s team. Ferguson also expressed dismay at the amount of down-time she had while shooting such big-budget, expansive productions:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a moment where you think it needs to be worth it, not just to love the character and to embrace Tom and [Christopher McQuarrie] and the story. I want to work, man. I want to work. I don\u2019t want to sit in a trailer and know that there\u2019s maybe coming a scene in [the middle of the] credits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faust was killed off in Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning<\/a> and therefore was not on-hand in this summer\u2019s Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning. The possibility of a Faust spinoff movie has been raised to Ferguson in interviews, but she said she wouldn’t do it unless Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, two very busy people, were involved.<\/p>\n

She may be out on Mission: Impossible and Bond, but that doesn\u2019t mean Ferguson is entirely done with that kind of movie. Indeed, her latest film A House of Dynamite, an apocalyptic thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, puts her in a situation room role that would not be out-of-place in a Bond or Mission: Impossible or Bourne movie.<\/p>\n

Ferguson has been confirmed for Dune 3, but her role is thought to be small.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tGenres \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst TV Show \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFleming: The Man Who Would be Bond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A House of Dynamite star Rebecca Ferguson may seem to have an inside track on a role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-70228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70228","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=70228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}