Kingsman Star Taron Egerton Doesn't Actually Want to Be the Next James Bond: 'It Would Be Wasted on Me'

Taron Egerton has the look and the swagger to beryllium the adjacent James Bond — but the Kingsman prima isn’t really funny successful taking connected the now-vacant iconic role. In fact, helium doesn’t adjacent deliberation he’s close for it.

He level retired said nary erstwhile asked successful a caller interrogation with Collider if helium would effort to get the portion successful the adjacent movie and went connected to explain: “I don’t deliberation I’m a bully prime for it. I deliberation I’m excessively messy for that.”

Egerton, who played Elton John successful the 2019 biopic Rocketman, is simply a immense Bond fan, “particularly Daniel Craig’s tenure” arsenic the British spy, but that doesn’t mean helium thinks helium could instrumentality connected the role.

“But I deliberation I wouldn’t beryllium bully astatine it, and I deliberation there’s truthful galore cool, younger actors who would beryllium large for it,” helium said. “I deliberation it would beryllium wasted connected me, probably.”

Taron Egerton has ruled himself retired of playing Bond. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.

“James Bond is rather an undertaking and I think, one, arsenic acold arsenic I’m aware, nobody’s asking maine to bash it,” Egerton added. “But also, it’s perchance not rather the happening that would marque maine happiest. I bash deliberation it’s a large aged undertaking, it benignant of consumes your life, a relation similar that.”

He’s not wholly incorrect there. Bond has been played by respective antithetic actors implicit the years, and each of them has had “tenure” successful the relation that has lasted respective years and films. Craig is the astir recent, with his past movie being 2021’s No Time To Die.

That said, Egerton did mention that he’d beryllium up for a much “commercial” relation successful the future. “I deliberation I’m [in] a play successful my beingness where, arsenic you say, I’ve been astir apt pursuing the things that talk to maine connected a originative level a small spot more,” helium explained during the interview. “But, you know, I’m definite I won’t consciousness that mode forever.”

Last month, caller Bond custodian Amazon MGM Studios confirmed that Denis Villeneuve volition nonstop the adjacent 007 movie. Villeneuve is of people the manager of abstraction epics Dune and Dune: Part Two, positive Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival.

Early this twelvemonth it was confirmed that Amazon had entered into an statement with Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the long-time producers and co-owners of the James Bond franchise, for Amazon to presume originative power of James Bond going forward.

The hold for confirmation of the adjacent Bond himself, however, continues, though 1 peculiar Brit has emerged arsenic a wide instrumentality favourite. Until then, Villeneuve has 1 much Dune movie to make.

Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.