Gary Oldman’s Sorry You Thought He Knew the Next James Bond
It was earlier this week that Gary Oldman dropped a little hint that he knew the actor who’d be next in line to play James Bond. Asked by host Josh Horowitz if he’d introduce Lowden as the next 007, Oldman said the press has taken things to the “very edge of almost misquoting me, but they don’t. […] A Canadian journalist asked me about Bond and Jack Lowden. I didn’t bring it up, she brought it up, I didn’t volunteer this.” He stood by his initial comment of hearing an actor had been picked among the shortlist, and that he was still “fingers crossed for my man Jack.
- ▪It was earlier this week that Gary Oldman dropped a little hint that he knew the actor who’d be next in line to play James Bond.
- ▪Asked by host Josh Horowitz if he’d introduce Lowden as the next 007, Oldman said the press has taken things to the “very edge of almost misquoting me, but they don’t. […] A Canadian journalist asked me about Bond and Jack Lowden.
- ▪I didn’t bring it up, she brought it up, I didn’t volunteer this.” He stood by his initial comment of hearing an actor had been picked among the shortlist, and that he was still “fingers crossed for my man Jack.
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It was earlier this week that Gary Oldman dropped a little hint that he knew the actor who’d be next in line to play James Bond. That read to many as an implication that his Slow Horses costar Jack Lowden landed the gig, but now the former Winston Churchill’s popped back in to basically say “whoops.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000810808","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"io9","SECTION":"movies","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"movies","TAGS":"amazon,gary-oldman,james-bond","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); At a recent TIFF Visionaries session, the actor amended that he doesn’t actually know…
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