The way forward for James Bond stays undecided, with the sale of the franchise by homeowners Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson to Amazon and producers scratching their heads as to how one can reintroduce 007 following the character’s demise in Daniel Craig’s ultimate outing in No Time to Die.
All stakeholders might do worse than think about Alexander Skarsgard’s providing of a Swedish James Bond, a superspy with all of the requisite Bond trappings – tuxedo, licence to kill, means with the women – however with a very Scandinavian aptitude.
The topic got here up in an interview with The Occasions of London by which the Huge Little Lies actor defined he beforehand joined his nation’s nationwide service: “I did it as a result of I used to be 19, I didn’t know what I wished to do and I wished to be James Bond for 18 months.”
Pressed on the prospect of taking this concept to the large display, Skarsgard entered the spirit of the providing, saying:
“I could possibly be a really well mannered, diplomatic Swedish James Bond, who negotiates. There’ll be no violence in any respect. It’ll simply be boardroom conferences the place folks attempt to discover consensus, everybody’s stressed and desperately tries to keep away from an argument or problems, that’s very Swedish. I’ll pitch it!”
Skarsgard, who received his massive break in Zoolander and has not too long ago appeared as a tech mogul in Succession, subsequent seems in Murderbot, an AppleTV+ sequence based mostly on the sci-fi novella sequence Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Skarsgard performs an android working as a safety guard for people engaged on different planets. He instructed The Occasions that, following a string of darker characters, “to lean into comedy – that’s an actual blast.”
