Daniel Craig is indifferent about who plays James Bond next.
Craig notably portrayed the infamous spy James Bond in five different James Bond movies, with his final performance as the character being No Time to Die. A new James Bond movie hasn’t been officially announced at this time; however, given the franchise’s track record, it is safe to assume there will be a new Bond movie at some point.
Speaking alongside his Queer co-star Drew Starkey in a recent interview with Variety, Craig was asked who he’d love to see play Bond if he were to pass the torch on to someone else.
“I don’t care,” Craig said with a laugh.
What other James Bond movies has Daniel Craig been in?
Craig’s Bond first debuted in 2006’s Casino Royale, which was directed by Martin Campbell. Craig went on to reprise the role in 2008’s Quantum of Solace (directed by Marc Forster), 2012’s Skyfall (directed by Sam Mendes), and 2015’s Spectre (also directed by Mendes) before Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die was then released in 2021.
Ben Whishaw, who portrayed Q in three of the Bond movies featuring Craig, recently told BBC he believes there will be a “completely new cast” in the franchise’s next entry.
“I don’t think I’m going to be in the next one,” Whishaw said, via Deadline. “I think they’re going to start all over again, and with a new cast, a completely new cast. I think that’s my hunch, but I don’t know. I have no idea,”
He added, “I think it might need a new lease of life and a whole new group of people. But if they asked me, I would do it, of course.”
While he won’t be playing Bond again, Craig plays a character named William Lee in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, which will be released in limited United States theaters on November 27, 2024. He’s also reprising his role as Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, also known as Knives Out 3, which arrives in 2025.