Has Jack Lowden been cast as next James Bond? Wife Saoirse Ronan reveals truth

Now his wife Ronan - with whom he welcomed a child last year - has addressed the gossip about Ian Fleming’s iconic MI5 agent in an interview with the Associated Press.

“Well, Gary Oldman thinks he’s James Bond,” the Lady Bird actor said.

“[That’s] its own thing. We’re kind of getting on with our life, to be honest. We have plenty of other things to be dealing with. So, yeah, it’s not really a subject that’s coming up in our house, to be honest.”

Jack Lowden is tipped to be the next Bond

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Ronan added: “The dog needs to be walked, the dinner needs be made - we’re most focused on that.”

Last month, Oldman said his co-star is tipped to be taking on the field agent role.

“It’s been rumoured that he’s on the shortlist,” Oldman told Global News. “We’re going to find out pretty soon, aren’t we? Because they have picked him. They have made their choice, but they have not announced it yet. So my fingers are crossed for Jack.”

Lowden with his partner Saoirse Ronan

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“I want to go dark. I said that I wanted to be a Bond villain and I’m dead serious,” she told Empire.

“I think it would be really interesting, having a young female villain. Especially for girls and women, to see someone who can just take all that pent-up anger and direct it somewhere, there’s something interesting in that dramatically. So I would love to do more of that.”

Casting director Nina Gold teased that the team were looking for an actor who “oozes sex appeal”.

Producer Amy Pascal recently said the new Bond actor might be revealed by the “end of the year”.

“I mean, Daniel Craig is a hard act to follow. And it’s got to be something really different that is stirring and exciting and different,” she added.

Turner, Elordi, Damson Idris, Harris Dickinson, Tom Holland and Louis Partridge have all been named as bookies’ favourites to take on the character.