{"id":598031,"date":"2026-05-22T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598031\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:13:08","slug":"as-the-official-search-for-the-new-james-bond-begins-here-are-five-things-the-new-007-needs-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598031\/","title":{"rendered":"As the official search for the new James Bond begins, here are five things the new 007 needs to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">But while an actor from Ireland or the Antipodes would be acceptable, the consensus seems to be than an American Bond is a step too far, no matter how good his accent. Californian beefcake Austin Butler ruled himself out on that basis, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DNnCv5gslm9\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">calling the idea<\/a> &#8220;sacrilegious&#8221;. It might seem arbitrary, but Bond&#8217;s emergence as an icon of post-war British identity was, in part, a response to the growing cultural dominance of the United States. &#8220;I agree with Austin Butler,&#8221; Bruce Feirstein, screenwriter on three Bond films, tells the BBC. &#8220;The reason Bond is so loved internationally is specifically because he&#8217;s not American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But while an actor from Ireland or the Antipodes would be acceptable, the consensus seems to be than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}