Britain is obsessed with who will be the next James Bond, yet he is seemingly nowhere to be found. Earlier this year, between holidays with his pop-star girlfriend Dua Lipa, Callum Turner was supposedly anointed as 007, but those claims should be taken with a pinch of gunpowder after previous reports claimed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson was a dead cert.
Meanwhile, others clamour for Jacob Elordi, and just this week, Barry Keoghan ruled himself out of the running. The other day, Saturday Night Live UK dropped a promo featuring host Jamie Dornan and cast member Al Nash comparing their Bond chances, before Gugu Mbatha-Raw told The Independent it’s time for a female 007. Soon, census workers will go door to door asking every young person in the country to audition. After that, the draft.
