The new 007

Yes a younger Colin Firth or George Clooney!

How about Sam Clafin?

I would have preferred Idris Elba, or Aiden Turner or Richard Madden.

How about Sophie Okenedo? Time for a female 007? She is a good actor and has the most beguiling smile; give her a kick-ass attitude, and she would totally bewilder the baddies!

Idris Elba

Only ever be one. Sean Connery

My favourite is Roger Moore but I think now it would be Tom Hardy definitely.

Tom Hiddleston is beautiful, but I think a little too cerebral to be Bond. James Norton would be good.

Idris Elba would be a good choice but what about Chris Hemsworth, he's gorgeous. Oh, if I was 10 years younger .......
(or maybe 40 years younger)! Dream on

I think it is about time we had a female 007!

Tom Hardy is a brilliant actor.

James Norton or Aiden Turner would be my choice, but I really thought Idris had it in the bag.

Chiwetel Ejiofor or Sam Heughan would be my choice...Tom Hardy is very good but for me he lacks the charm needed to play Bond.

My choice would be Armie Hammer - I have never seen a more gorgeous hunk

Aidan Turner or Idris Elba for me please.

Idris Elba definitely. He might even be better than Sean Connery. <I shall quickly take cover now>

I used to think Idris Elba would be good - great actor, good looking - until I noticed he's got bow legs!

I like Tom Hardy....yes, he played both the Kray twins in the film 'legend'...very good he was too.

He's perfect in Superman and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I've just seen in an article that Henry Cavill may be the next Bond - he looks fairly handsome and rugged.

Looks like Hardy won't be the next 007 after all! Maybe Sam Heughan?

JackyB Sat 26-Sep-20 21:27:38
I've been looking up Tom Hardy on the Web and have realised that I have no idea who he is.

Well that's a relief, when I saw the name I thought: "Tom Who?" But I didn't dare say so, I once made that mistake with Gary Barlow, but I'm still none the wiser on either of them.

The Kray twins.....can’t imagine Hardy playing Ronnie or Reggie.?
Was Tom Hiddlestone the main character in The Night Manager? He was excellent in that.

I think I remember Idris Elba saying in an interview that he wouldn't take the part if it was offered.

I think further up the thread someone was trying to remember the name Tom Hiddlestone.

I've been looking up Tom Hardy on the Web and have realised that I have no idea who he is. I do remember hearing that he played twins in a film once and was highly praised for it. May have been the Cray twins.

Rosalyn69 Sat 26-Sep-20 10:56:29
Sean Connery will always be James Bond to me.

Of course he is, even though he's just turned 90. As a young teenage boy, I avidly read all of Fleming's 007 adventures and seeing a photo of Fleming, that's how I pictured Bond, but Connery changed that.

Some actors can read a script and just get inside a character. Harrison Ford is always Indiana Jones, Sean Bean is Richard Sharpe, (did you know that Sean Bean's birth certificate shows the spelling of his name as Shaun?) and Ioan Gruffudd is Horatio Hornblower.

However, Michael Gambon did a brilliant job of Dumbledore, when he replaced Richard Harris. The latter having sadly passed away.