Bill Skarsgård Says He ‘Wasn’t Even Thrown Into the Mix’ to Be James Bond: ‘Maybe They Were Like, “We Can’t Do a Swede”’

News Briefvia VarietyNovember 7, 2026

Bill Skarsgård won’t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain. In a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Skarsgård revealed he wasn’t asked to test for Denis Villeneuve’s reboot. “They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what that was about,” he joked.

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