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“He’s fantastic,” Joe Russo beamed. “I mean, he has more charisma in his pinky than most people do in their entire body. So you know, we’d watch him do anything—I mean we’d watch him read the phonebook!”
Page has heard this question before a number of times. Last year, on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show, he told the host that it just kind of comes with the territory. “If you’re a Brit and you do something of any regard that people renown well, people are going to start saying the ‘B word.’” The star smiled, “I’m very glad to have the badge, I’m very glad to be in the company of such people who have the badge, but it’s just a badge.”
Producer Barbara Broccoli told Deadline that there isn’t a contest yet. They’re hard at work trying to figure out what Bond means in a new era.
“Nobody’s in the running,” she revealed. “We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through. There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.”
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