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Amazon MGM can rest easy on its hunt for a new 007 because George Clooney’s been on the case and he’s cracked it. According to Clooney, there’s a “perfect” James Bond out there already, and it’s Callum Turner.
The London-born Turner, who recently wed pop star Dua Lipa, is best known for playing Newt Scamander’s brother Theseus in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, but has also snagged plum roles in Apple TV’s Masters of the Air and last year’s well-received romantic comedy Eternity.
The 36-year-old actor might be slightly on the older side for MGM, which is reportedly looking for a younger actor for its new incarnation of the iconic British spy. Still, Clooney has thrown Turner’s hat into the ring for him.
“I hope Callum ends up being the next Bond. I think he would be a great Bond,” Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter unprompted. “He’s tall and handsome and charming and British, so he’s the perfect guy to do it.”
Clooney also cites Turner’s comparative lack of “easy paychecks” over the years, in contrast to his more interesting roles, as a good reason to believe he’s proper leading man material. “Somehow Callum has weaved his way through all of the noise and found a place where people look at him and go, ‘There’s something with this young man.’ It’s exciting to watch people saying, ‘That guy — that’s a guy I want to follow and pay attention to.’“
When asked directly about the James Bond speculation swirling around him, Turner said, “I’m not going to comment on that,” later adding, “I’ll tell you what’s so funny about the Bond thing: Even your best friends ask you, people text you that you haven’t spoken to for 10 years — and you know nothing! It’s such a weird thing of something happening and nothing happening at all. I genuinely know nothing. I just find it quite amusing.”
Realistically, Turner is a solid choice for the new Bond. He’s young enough, but also looks like he could already be a bit experienced in espionage, given that he’s also the same age as actor Jack Lowden, the spy in Apple TV’s terrific Slow Horses. Callum is charismatic but has proved he can handle more serious roles, and also has the right physicality for Bond. More importantly, perhaps, people don’t immediately associate him with another iconic role, which might prove less of a distraction than someone like the hotly tipped Jacob Elordi, who many still think of as the manipulative and abusive Nate Jacobs in Euphoria.
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