Saoirse Ronan has revealed she has a secret ambition to play the role of a James Bond villain and would like her husband Jack Lowden to play 007.
If the wishes of the Little Women stars, 30, were to come true, the couple would be the first ever Mr and Mrs Bond, making them an even more iconic couple.
When discussing what her bad trait would be if she were to star in the spy series, Saoirse suggested that she would like her character to have a limp.
She told me The sun: ‘I’ve always said I want to play a Bond villain. I would really like to do that. I mean it, I would. If anyone knows Barbara Broccoli, please tell her.
“There’s something nice about just saying, ‘I’m going to make a big movie next. And I know it’s going to be seen by people.’
Saoirse Ronan has revealed she has a secret ambition to star as a James Bond villain and would like her husband Jack Lowden to become 007
If the wishes of the Little Women stars, 30, were to come true, the couple would be the first ever Mr and Mrs Bond, making them an even more iconic couple
She added: “I’m aware that I’m blonde because I feel like a lot of female villains in movies are always super blonde and look bad. I would like to break the trend, but honestly: it’s what Barbara wants!’
Saoirse also admitted that when it came to playing the villain in James Bond or her husband playing 007, she was happy to pass on the role.
Speaking on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast: ‘He should be Bond, if it’s a choice between the two. Isn’t it nice that I did that?’
Although Bond Girls are well known in spy films, female leads are much scarcer.
In 1999’s The World Is Not Enough, Sophie Marceau played the first female Bond villain, Elektra King.
Other female villains include Grace Jones as assassin-turned-ally May Day in 1985’s A View To A Kill, and Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp, who killed her victims between her muscular thighs, in 1995’s GoldenEye.
Saoirse co-hosted a BBC Radio 2 show with Scottish DJ Edith Bowman and discussed her husband Jack’s hopes of becoming 007.
Edith said Jack would be a good choice for the iconic role, adding that she had been making a similar argument for years.
In response, Saoirse said, “I’m going to count how many times you plug it in for Bond.”
When Saoirse discussed what her bad trait would be if she were to star in the spy series, she suggested that she should have a limp
She said: ‘I’ve always said I want to play a Bond villain. I would really like to do that. I mean it, I would. If anyone knows Barbara Broccoli, please tell her.”
Saoirse also admitted that when it came to playing the villain in James Bond or her husband taking over as 007 from Daniel Craig (pictured), she was keen to pass on the role.
When Edith replied that she had been doing this for six years, Saoirse responded: “But that hasn’t happened yet,” before adding: “There’s time, there’s time.”
Saoirse also discussed how she and Jack – who helped her produce new Orkney-based film The Outrun – feel it’s important to work with people they feel comfortable with.
The Mary Queen of Scots star said: ‘If you feel safe in the company you’re in, but also feel pressured, that’s the best environment.
‘The older we get, and certainly for myself and Jack, the more we do this, the more important it is for us – and essential really – to only work with people who are on the same wavelength as us and who are just nice. and good at what they do.
“It doesn’t mean you have to be the best, but you just have to be passionate about it and take care of each other because there are a lot of people who aren’t like that.”
Three years after the release of No Time To Die, fans are eagerly awaiting the official announcement of who will replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson remains the bookmakers’ favorite at 6-4, while Henry Cavill’s odds have been cut from 7-2, while Lowden is at 12-1.
Jack, 34, grew up in the Berwickshire village of Oxton and has made a career of films including Dunkirk and Benediction and TV shows including Slow Horses and The Gold.
He and Saoirse met in 2018 when they starred together in Mary Queen Of Scots and married on the weekend of July 20 this year.
She played the title role while Jack played Lord Darnley, the monarch’s husband. They started dating in December 2018.
They married in a secret ceremony in Edinburgh’s Old Town in July. The four-time Oscar-nominated star and the Scottish actor held the wedding in an intimate setting just off the Royal Mile.
The private affair involved a handful of the couple’s friends, who along with family members kept the wedding a secret. Their marriage certificate states that Jack Andrew Lowden, 34, married Saoirse Una Ronan, 30, at the City Chambers registry office on July 17.
US-born Saoirse, who grew up in Ireland, and Jack share a £2.5million house in London with their dog Fran.
