British actress Charlotte Kirk has said she is auditioning for a “lethal, brilliant and complicated” role in the new Bond film.
Kirk, 30, told Los Angeles magazine that she couldn’t comment on the possible role, adding, “If I told you, I’d have to kill you.”
But the London actress has made it no secret that she wants to follow in the footsteps of Ursula Andress, Grace Jones and Halle Berry. The last actress to star alongside Daniel Craig in his final film as Bond was Lea Seydoux, who played Madeleine Swann.
“I can confirm that Charlotte would definitely accept a role in Bond,” her spokesperson said The mirror in April.
With Charlotte’s award-winning roles, notorious curves and good looks on screen, it makes sense that she would position herself as a favorite for Bond.
“Charlotte is currently the number one action female on the movie scene – her latest film The Lair hit number one at the US Box Office for action-fiction thriller.”
Charlotte Kirk, 30, has said she is auditioning for a role in the new Bond movie
James Norton is currently the bookmakers’ favorite to step into Daniel Craig’s shoes
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (left) and Henry Cavill (right) are two others hotly tipped to take on the Bond role
Bond producers have yet to confirm who will take over from Daniel Craig.
Current favorite is James Norton, followed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill.
The film – ‘Bond 26’ – will hit our screens at the earliest in 2025.
Kirk is known for her role in the 2018 film Ocean’s 8, co-starring Sandra Bullock, and in the 2016 sci-fi thriller Vice, co-starring Bruce Willis.
She is also known for taking down two powerful Hollywood executives, who she dated and went on to win roles in their films.
Kirk had an affair at the age of 25 with Ron Meyer, the then 76-year-old former Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal, and at the age of 21 with the then Chairman of Warner Bros. Kevin Tsujihara, who was 55 at the time.
Kevin Tsujihara, CEO and chairman of Warner Bros. (left), was 55 when he had an affair with 21-year-old Charlotte Kirk in 2013: he was fired. Ron Meyer (right) was a 76-year-old Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal when he had an affair with Kirk, age 25. He was also dropped
Kirk can be seen in a photo from her Instagram
She also dated Australian billionaire James Packer in 2013.
Both Hollywood men used their power to help Kirk land mostly small roles in forgotten movies.
In March 2019, The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Tsujihara had dated Kirk in 2013; the news led to Tsujihara’s subsequent deposition.
Meyer was fired from the company in August 2020 after 25 years when news of his affair with Kirk became public.
Kirk met director Neil Marshall in 2017, a fellow Brit who had directed films like Dog Soldiers and Hellboy, as well as episodes of Game of Thrones and Westworld.
The pair became an item and Marshall, now 53, and Kirk work together regularly.
Marshall and Kirk’s ex, Joshua Newton, was accused of blackmailing Meyer, which led him to go to the police and was subsequently fired for the affair.
Marshall strongly denied that he was behind a plot to blackmail Meyer.
“The allegations about myself, Ron Meyer and NBC/Universal are nothing but lies based on untruths,” Marshall said in a statement to Vanity Fair.
“What we have here is a witch hunt, plain and simple, perpetrated by overprivileged men in positions of power, aided by friends of equal status and lacking in ethics, fueled by clickbait headlines as we have seen in recent days, and carried out against the wife of whom I love, my betrothed Charlotte Kirk.’