Daniel Craig’s Bond casting reminiscence might maintain key to Aaron Taylor-Johnson rumours | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Aaron Taylor-Johnson has lengthy been the bookies’ favorite to be forged as the following James Bond.

Back in March, a number of reviews claimed the 34-year-old Kraven the Hunter star had been formally provided the function after rumours that he impressed 007 producer Barbara Broccoli.

When questioned about all of it, the star has performed it very coy, with journalists who interviewed him highlighting he seemed like he wasn’t in a position to discuss it.

Yet months have handed since all that information, and we nonetheless haven’t acquired an official announcement.

Now, it’s simply doable that Daniel Craig’s enlightening reminiscences of his 007 casting virtually 20 years in the past might maintain the important thing to what’s actually happening at EON Productions.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, when Pierce Brosnan’s Bond period ended, Broccoli and her brother Michael G Wilson “began looking at 200 actors across three continents over a period of two years”. And in keeping with Craig, he first met her at a funeral in India when she requested him to come back for a cup of tea at EON Productions in Piccadilly, London.

The outgoing Bond recalled: “Not knowing what that was code for. I went to an office in Piccadilly at EON, sat down with them, and she basically offered me the job there and then… outright. [But] was a bit more complicated than that.”

We know that Craig, who had impressed Broccoli in 1998’s Elizabeth, went on to do the standard 007 auditions and compete in opposition to the likes of a younger Henry Cavill. Now if Craig’s recollections are right, this might clarify these Aaron Taylor-Johnson rumours.

Our finest wager is that Broccoli gave Taylor-Johnson a faucet on the shoulder sooner or later final yr and invited him to tea at EON Productions. If she’s as eager on him as she was on Craig then it’s doable he was outright provided the function like the previous 007.

That would clarify the rumours of a proper provide months in the past earlier than going into auditions with different doable contenders, simply in case the frontrunner wasn’t fairly proper for the function. He’s received to have a display check in that towel from Sean Connery’s From Russia with Love, in spite of everything.

Whatever the case, certainly 2025 is the yr we discover out who’s forged as the following Bond, and we wouldn’t be shocked if Taylor-Johnson takes up the Licence to Kill subsequent.