Michael Fassbender Doesn't Want to Be James Bond, Suggests Woman Should Get the Role

The list of contenders to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond has just gotten a little shorter. In an interview with GQ, X-Men star Michael Fassbender said he’s not going to be 007. He told the British edition of the magazine, “Bond! Is this rumor still going round? … You would have thought I was out of the bookies by now.” And then when he was asked if he’d consider playing Bond if offered, he said, “To be honest, no. As an acting role, I think Daniel has done such a cracking job in this age group.”

But just because the Oscar-nominated actor doesn’t want to play the part doesn’t mean he hasn’t given thought to who should. He suggested that the franchise should go in a new direction. “Bond should be someone in their early 20s,” he said. “I always thought Bond should be British, but let’s get an American in. Or maybe someone like Jack O’Connell would be good? Or even better, how about Jane Bond?”

Fassbender even had a pretty good idea for how a Bond film with a younger star should start out. “The film could start off in Sandhurst…” [Time out — There’s a Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, which is otherwise a small British town. Time in!] “… The film could start off in Sandhurst and how he became a ‘double 0.’ M could walk in and say to him, ‘Bond, there’s a 00 project but it’s going to be totally off the book, black ops, and you’ve got to go into prison undetected.”

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