{"id":813179,"date":"2026-08-14T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813179\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:24:09","slug":"next-james-bond-jack-lowden-linked-to-007-role-amid-casting-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813179\/","title":{"rendered":"Next James Bond: Jack Lowden linked to 007 role amid casting speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Osman\u2019s claim comes as auditions for the next James Bond reportedly get underway this month, according to online news site Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Osman\u2019s podcast co-host, Marina Hyde, agreed, describing the 36-year-old actor as being at a \u201cgood age\u201d to take on the role and saying he had \u201creal Daniel Craig energy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Scottish actor Jack Lowden is being \u201cstrongly considered\u201d to become the next James Bond. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Scottish actor Jack Lowden is being \u201cstrongly considered\u201d to become the next James Bond. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Lowden is best known for playing MI5 agent River Cartwright in the acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses. He has also appeared in films including Dunkirk and is set to star as Mr Darcy in Netflix\u2019s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">He is one of several actors linked to the role as speculation continues over who will succeed Craig as 007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Craig made his final appearance as the secret agent in 2021\u2019s No Time to Die, bringing his five-film, 15-year tenure as Bond to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Idris Elba, Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi are among the other actors previously mentioned as possible contenders.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Speculation as to who will take over the role has been rife in recent years, with frontrunners including Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Speculation as to who will take over the role has been rife in recent years, with frontrunners including Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The lengthy wait for a new Bond has partly coincided with a change in leadership for the franchise. Amazon MGM Studios gained creative control in 2025 after acquiring MGM three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The next Bond film is set to be directed by Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight writing the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Producer Amy Pascal has said the team is taking a careful approach to finding Craig\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are being really, really methodical,\u201d Pascal told Deadline. \u201cDaniel Craig is a hard act to follow. And it\u2019s got to be something that\u2019s stirring, exciting and different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">No casting decision has been announced, and neither Lowden nor the film\u2019s producers has publicly responded to Osman\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osman\u2019s claim comes as auditions for the next James Bond reportedly get underway this month, according to online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[38498,33531,38257,60791,151106,58978,22747,43498,30737,88,45954,8304,8509,344991,206,6212,344994,344995,344993,32744,4990,344992,122636,215568,1505,826],"class_list":["post-813179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-38498","tag-according","tag-actor","tag-amid","tag-become","tag-being","tag-bond","tag-casting","tag-considered","tag-entertainment","tag-jack","tag-james","tag-linked","tag-lowden","tag-movies","tag-next","tag-novelist","tag-osman","tag-presenter","tag-richard","tag-role","tag-scottish","tag-speculation","tag-strongly","tag-television","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813179","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=813179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}