\u201cI can\u2019t. [Seven-second pause.] I don\u2019t know. [Ten-second pause.] To be honest, I don\u2019t know all the Bond rumors, but I\u2019ve always been a huge fan of the franchise, and I\u2019m excited and curious to see what they do with it,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly wants Sweeney to play a Bond girl in the 2028 film, according to Variety. But whether she wants to join the project depends on the story itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepends on the script,\u201d Sweeney told Variety. \u201cI think I\u2019d have more fun as James Bond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plans to develop a 26th installment were set in motion when Amazon MGM Studios, which acquired the franchise\u2019s rights in 2022, was granted full creative control by longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson in February. Public filings revealed that Amazon MGM Studios paid Eon Productions, which is owned by Broccoli and Wilson, $20 million for creative control<\/a> of the 007 series.<\/p>\n More details have emerged in recent months regarding the new Amazon-helmed James Bond era. Dune and Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve, for instance, was announced as the upcoming film\u2019s director in June, and House of Guinness creator Steven Knight<\/a> was unveiled as its screenwriter in July.<\/p>\n Villeneuve will reportedly commence his search for the actor who will play the famed fictional spy in 2026, after he finishes production on Dune: Part Three, according to a Deadline report<\/a> from September. The Canadian director is reportedly seeking a \u201cfresh face\u201d from the British Isles, which meshes with rumors that Bullet Train actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson could take over<\/a> as the famed spy. <\/p>\n At this time, there don\u2019t appear to be any constraints on where the Bond girl should hail from, which means Sweeney, a Spokane, Wash., native, is still in the running. That Amazon MGM Studios is producing the film, and Villeneuve is directing it, seems to bolster speculation that Sweeney is a serious candidate for the coveted role.<\/p>\n Sweeney in Venice for the Jeff Bezos-Lauren S\u00e1nchez wedding. (Ernesto S. Ruscio\/GC Images)<\/p>\n Speculation surrounding whether or not Sweeney may take her turn as a Bond girl reached a fever pitch in June, when she was spotted at Bezos and Lauren S<\/a>\u00e1<\/a>nchez\u2019s star-studded wedding<\/a> in Venice. A July report from the U.S. Sun<\/a> suggested that Sweeney is \u201cthe top name on the casting sheet for Bond\u201d and that Villeneuve is vying for her to join the project.<\/p>\n \u201cDenis believes she is hugely talented, as well as having an alluring appeal to younger generations, vital in modernising the franchise,\u201d the outlet\u2019s source said. \u201cThey\u2019ve hung out together a lot and he has admired her stratospheric rise.\u201d<\/p>\n Sweeney, who stars in the biographical sports drama Christy, which hits theaters in November, remains booked and busy. Next up, she\u2019ll star in the Paul Feig-directed drama The Housemaid, which is also out this winter; she\u2019s set to reprise her role as Cassie Howard in the upcoming third and final season of Euphoria<\/a>, which premieres in spring 2026; and she\u2019ll appear in the upcoming films I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl and the untitled Gundam movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney is aware of the Bond girl discourse \u2014 and she\u2019s ready to weigh in. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[59622,12779,15833,7106,88,37117,1168,206,7105,138495],"class_list":["post-255630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-founder","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-barbara-broccoli","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-entertainment","tag-james-bond","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-movies","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-the-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sweeney](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2222487850.jpg\"\/)
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