Bill Skarsgård Says He ‘Wasn’t Even Thrown Into the Mix’ to Be James Bond: ‘Maybe They Were Like, “We Can’t Do a Swede”’

Bill Skarsgård won’t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain.

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In a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Skarsgård revealed he wasn’t asked to test for Denis Villeneuve’s reboot.

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“They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what that was about,” he joked. “Every single British, Australian [actor] … but maybe they were like, ‘We can’t do a Swede for this guy.’ I wasn’t even thrown into the mix.”

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Casting rumors for the new Bond have recently reached a fever pitch, with names like Callum Turner, Josh O’Connor and Jack Lowden swirling around. Most recently, Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult were revealed to have screen-tested for the role.

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Skarsgård agreed with Horowitz that he wouldn’t want to sign on for a decade plus of playing 007. “That’s right,” he said. “Just want to go in and do one Mads Mikkelsen villain.”

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“It’s not something that I’m actively looking for, but if I feel compelled to do something, yeah,” Skarsgård continued. “It’s the weird thing. A lot of people ask me, what goes into picking your roles or whatever and I don’t really know how to say it other than I feel…

Original source: https://variety.com/

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