Bill Skarsgård won’t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain.
During a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Skarsgård revealed that he was not asked to test Denis Villeneuve’s reboot.
“They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what it was about,” he joked. “All the British and Australian (actors)… but maybe they were saying, ‘We can’t do a Swede for this guy.’ I wasn’t even involved in the mixing.
Rumors surrounding the new Bond have reached fever pitch recently, with names like Callum Turner, Josh O’Connor and Jack Lowden swirling. Most recently, it was revealed that Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult had screen tested for the role.
Skarsgård agreed with Horowitz that he wouldn’t want to commit for more than a decade to playing 007. “That’s true,” he said. “I just want to go in and make a Mads Mikkelsen villain.”
“It’s not something I actively pursue, but if I feel compelled to do something, yes,” Skarsgård continued. “That’s what’s weird. A lot of people ask me what happens with your casting or whatever and I don’t really know how to say it other than I feel drawn to it or obligated to it. It’s something you can’t really put into words and describe why it happens.”
He added: “But I’ve also noticed that I don’t want to become jaded. Which means I think I could probably go long periods of time without working and waiting for something to be compelling enough for me to work on.”
The Swedish actor is no stranger to villainous characters. He played Pennywise in the “It” films, Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” Eric Draven in “The Crow,” and Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont in “John Wick: Chapter 4.” But he told Horowitz that he was becoming more discerning about the villain roles he took on.
“For a villain, it would have to be something that felt original to me, something I had never done before,” Skarsgård said. “I kind of feel exhausted by these things. But there are villains (who) could be really fun in different ways and if it’s the right genre.”
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