Tom Hanks: Give Idris Elba ‘license to kill’ as new James Bond
nypost.comfan-favorite frontrunner Idris Elba is the next British man in a suave suit to embody the super spy.“Understand this,” Hanks told the BBC recently. “James Bond has a license to kill.
I would issue that license to Idris Elba just based on the work that I’ve seen him do.” While Elba’s much-desired turn as Bond has earned the love and support of both fans and the spy franchise’s longtime producer, Barbara Broccoli, he’s not so sure he wants to play the role.“It is not a goal for my career,” Elba told “The Shop” podcast last September. “I don’t think that, you know, playing Bond will satisfy some of my personal goals.“It will definitely satisfy the will of a nation.
I’m not gonna lie, every corner of the world I go, and I’m talking about different cultures, they always go ‘Bond,’ and I feel it is beyond me at this junction,” the 50-year-old “Luther” actor added. “It’s beyond me.
You know, it’s not a question of, ‘Should I? Do I? Will I?’ It is what the will of the nation dictates sometimes.”Daniel Craig has played the womanizer since 2006’s “Casino Royale” until the last installment, 2021’s “No Time to Die.”Broccoli and her co-producer Michael G.
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