{"id":432132,"date":"2026-05-17T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:53:11","slug":"tom-francis-has-auditioned-for-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432132\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Francis Has Auditioned For James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tom-francis-has-auditioned-for-james-bond.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tom-francis-has-auditioned-for-james-bond.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"tom-francis-has-auditioned-for-james-bond\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of Amazon\u2019s announcement the other day that casting is now underway on the next James Bond film, the first new name to join the fray in a while has emerged \u2013 Tom Francis.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old British stage actor is best known for his Olivier Award-winning performance alongside Nicole Scherzinger in Jamie Lloyd\u2019s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s musical \u201cSunset Boulevard,\u201d which played on the West End in 2023 and Broadway in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On screen, his work has been fairly limited with small roles in Netflix\u2019s \u201cYou\u201d and the George Clooney-led film \u201cJay Kelly\u201d.  He will soon appear in Peter Berg\u2019s sports drama \u201cThe Mosquito Bowl\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/james-bond-tom-francis-audition-amazon-mgm-1236749910\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> reported the news, saying the actor has already auditioned to play the part and is just one of many performers to be under consideration by casting director Nina Gold and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.<\/p>\n<p>Francis marks the latest name to join the rumor list which is skewing younger \u2013 late 20s\/early 30s \u2013 than previous Bonds who have generally been in their late 30s when cast.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Elordi, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Callum Turner are all said to be under consideration, though a spokesperson for \u201cSh\u014dgun\u201d actor Cosmo Jarvis has ruled him out saying the actor is not auditioning for it.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/jackson-may-get-to-adapt-tolkiens-silmarillion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson May Get To Adapt Tolkien\u2019s \u201cSilmarillion\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix Hot on the heels of Amazon\u2019s announcement the other day that casting is now underway on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84767,430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-432132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bigslider","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}