Javier Bardem Confirmed For ‘Bond 23’
We’re still in the grey zone with respect to real news about the next James Bond film.Rumoredto be calledSkyfall, we’re still just calling itBond 23for now. There will be a press conference early next month to announce the beginning of production, at which point we’ll likely get a batch of official info.
But for now, we’ll take a statement fromJavier Bardemconfirming that he’s playing the bad guy in the movie. (Or one of the bad guys, at least.) Along with that confirmation, there are confirmations thatFrench actressBerenice Marlohewill be in the film, as willBen Whishaw(who is shooting the Tykwer/WahcowskiCloud Atlasright now) andHarry Potter’sHelen McCrory.
Get Bardem’s statement and another rumor aboutBond 23after the break.
In an interview with Nightline on ABC (video below), Bardem was asked about playing the villain in Bond 23, to which he said,
I am very excited, my parents took me to watch the movies, and I saw all of them, and to play that is going to be fun. They chose me to play this man, but I cannot give you many details.
I won’t speculate on what his role might be, but then there’s also the rumor that the end of the film will be shot at Duntrune Castle in Argyll, Scotland, which will be standing in as “James Bond’s ancestral home.” There’s a tiny bit of extra and possibly spoilerish info at theBBC— assuming it is correct at all.
So: now we’ve got thatSam Mendesis directingDaniel CraiginBond 23, Javier Bardem will be a bad guy,Ralph Fiennesis still strongly rumored for the film (playing, theDaily Mailsays, “a role so top secret, I swallowed a pill to make me forget what I was told”) andJudi Denchreturns as M, whileNaomi Harriswill play Miss Moneypenny.
