{"id":605326,"date":"2026-05-26T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605326\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:32:14","slug":"idris-elba-finally-shuts-down-james-bond-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605326\/","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba Finally Shuts Down James Bond Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luther and The Wire star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/idris-elba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Idris Elba<\/a> has long been the ideal next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/james-bond\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond<\/a> for some of 007\u2019s vocal fan base, but the actor has now confirmed that he was never in the running to step into the iconic British spy\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/idris-elba-says-hes-never-truly-been-in-the-race-to-play-james-bond-007-exclusive-11981939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">People<\/a> at the premiere of his new movie, Masters of the Universe, Elba reacted to the notion that his name was once again being suggested for Bond as Amazon seeks to follow up on the success of the Daniel Craig era, saying, \u201cMy name\u2019s not getting thrown out, no way. They\u2019re going younger. And I wish them all the luck of the world. I can\u2019t wait \u2014 it\u2019s going to be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elba added, \u201cI\u2019m honestly not in the race ever. I wasn\u2019t in the race in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hackney-born actor and DJ previously told the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NUav-gUr7Wg?si=G90lrlmLf3qonkx7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Smartless podcast<\/a> in 2023 that he felt \u201csuper complimented\u201d by the persistent rumors that he might be the next James Bond, noting that the role is \u201cone of those sort of coveted types\u201d but that the ensuing cultural conversation about the character\u2019s race had disheartened him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luther and The Wire star Idris Elba has long been the ideal next James Bond for some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605326","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\/605326","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=605326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}