‘I want to beat up some bad guys,’ said the London-born actor. Leo Woodall has thrown his hat into the ring to play James Bond, saying he’d “love” to take on the iconic role. “Every British actor’s getting that!” he responded with a laugh. “That call hasn’t come yet,” he added. “Yeah, I’d do Bond. I’d love to do something like that. “It doesn’t need to be saving the world, but I want to beat up some bad guys, you know?”.
The Fall Guy actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson was first rumoured for the role in January 2023 after it was reported that producer Barbara Broccoli had been left impressed by a screen test with the actor, whose credits include Kick-Ass, Bullet Train and Nowhere Boy. Former Bond stars including Pierce Brosnan and George Lazenby have all offered their support for the Nowhere Boy actor, saying they believe he could be the right candidate.
Woodall had a starring role in the second season of The White Lotus in 2021, and has since appeared as the romantic lead in Netflix’s One Day. “What we’re seeing is an erosion of an invisible wall that has meant that, for some reason in culture, we have traditionally been less interested in women over a certain age interacting with men [of a certain age],” he told The Independent. “That should be nonsense, I think we can all agree, that should be absolutely nonsense. There should be no invisible wall stopping anything.”.
