Taron Egerton rules himself out of Bond role
01-Aug-2025 • Bond 26
Taron Egerton joins the queue of actors ruling themselves out of contention for the vacant James Bond role.
“I think I’m too messy for that,” Egerton told Collider on Tuesday. “I think I’m not [the right fit] - I really love James Bond and particularly Daniel Craig’s tenure.”
“But I think I wouldn’t be good at it,” he continued, “and I think there’s so many cool, younger actors who would be great for it. I think it would be wasted on me, probably.”
Egerton added that the role would be “quite an undertaking” at this stage in his career. “As far as I’m aware, nobody’s asking me to do it. But also, it’s possibly not quite the thing that would make me happiest,” he said, referring to the restrictive nature of playing Bond. “It kind of consumes your life, a role like that.”
