Gerard Butler has poured cold water on any hopes he would be donning the famous James Bond tuxedo and getting his martini all shaken, not stirred.
We won’t be seeing Gerard as Bond (Picture: Getty Images)
Seems he’s been asked before to play the suave spy and turned it down. Now? Well, he believes he’s just too old.
The Angel Has Fallen star was in London chatting about his new movie when he was quizzed on radio about taking on the famous spy.
His name has been thrown about for a long time and with Daniel Craig about to hang up his 007 badge following the next instalment, Bond 25, next year it begs the question of who will take over.
Everyone from Gerard to Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston and James Norton has been mentioned.
But Gerard thinks time is no longer on his side.
It’s though Bond 25 will be Daniel’s last film as the spy (Picture: Rex Features)
‘No. I had a meeting for it like 20 years ago,’ he said on Capital FM’s Breakfast show with Roman Kemp on Wednesday.
‘Now I think I’m at a nice ripe old age where they won’t be coming back my way which is fine.’
Gerard is pretty happy working on his own franchise with Fallen (first it was Olympus, then London, now Angel).
‘Listen, here’s the thing, you know what I love is – and I love Bond, I grew up on Bond – but the cool thing with this is that we created our own franchise,’ he continued.
‘We created our own Bond and that’s more fun than to have to play Bond and be compared to the others.’
That’s not to say he hasn’t had his own brush with Bond in the past, as Gerard recounted a rather thrilling moment on set with former 007 star Pierce Brosnan.
Speaking about the injuries he’s sustained living the life of an action man, he said: ‘Yeah, in Chasing Mavericks I ended up in hospital.
‘I’ve been in car crashes, in fact, Pierce Brosnan – James Bond himself – drove me right into a wall. That was 10 years ago.’
Fun times!
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