British actress Charlotte Kirk has said she is auditioning for a “deadly, brilliant and complicated” role in the new Bond film.
Kirk, 30, told Los Angeles Magazine that she couldn’t comment on the potential role, adding, “If I told you, I would have to kill you.”
But the London-based actress has made no secret of her desire to follow in the footsteps of Ursula Andress, Grace Jones and Halle Berry. The last actress to star alongside Daniel Craig in his last film as Bond was Lea Seydoux, who played Madeleine Swann.
“I can confirm that Charlotte would absolutely accept a role in Bond,” her rep told The Mirror in April.
“Given Charlotte’s award-winning roles, notorious curves and gorgeous looks, it’s only natural that she would position herself as a Bond favorite.”
“Charlotte is the number one action woman on the movie scene right now – her latest film The Lair was the number one US box office action fiction thriller.”
Charlotte Kirk, 30, has said she is auditioning for a role in the new Bond film
James Norton is currently the bookies favorite to succeed Daniel Craig
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (left) and Henry Cavill (right) are two other potential candidates for 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” – won’t be on our screens until 2025 at the earliest.
Kirk is known for her roles in the 2018 film Ocean’s 8 opposite Sandra Bullock and in the 2016 sci-fi thriller Vice with Bruce Willis.
She is also known for bringing down two powerful Hollywood executives whom she dated and subsequently landed for roles in their films.
Kirk, 25, had an affair with Ron Meyer, then 76-year-old former vice chairman of NBCUniversal, and at 21 with 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 25-year-old Kirk. He too was fired
Kirk can be seen in a photo from her Instagram
She was also dating Australian billionaire James Packer in 2013.
Both Hollywood men used their power to land Kirk mostly small roles in forgotten films.
In March 2019, The Hollywood Reporter ran the story that Tsujihara began dating Kirk in 2013; The news led to Tsujihara’s subsequent downfall.
Meyer was ousted from the company in August 2020 after 25 years when news of his affair with Kirk broke.
In 2017, Kirk met director Neil Marshall, a compatriot who had directed films like Dog Soldiers and Hellboy, as well as episodes of Game of Thrones and Westworld.
The pair became a unit and Marshall, now 53, and Kirk work together frequently.
Marshall and Kirk’s ex, Joshua Newton, was accused of trying to blackmail Meyer, which led to him going to the police and subsequently being fired over the affair.
Marshall emphatically denied being behind any conspiracy to blackmail Meyer.
“The allegations against me, 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, pure and simple, being perpetrated by overprivileged men in positions of power, backed by equal friends with no ethics, fueled by clickbait headlines like the ones we’ve seen over the past few days” and against the woman executed, who I love, my fiancee Charlotte Kirk.’