It’s been over 20 years since Pierce Brosnan concluded his four-movie career as James Bond.
And now as his successor Daniel Craig has bowed out, fans are wondering who will be the seventh official star to play Ian Fleming’s spy on the big screen.
The 70-year-old GoldenEye star was at the annual Oscar Wilde Awards last night when asked who he’ll be backing.
And it turns out he’s chosen fellow Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who is tipped to win the Best Actor Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday evening for Oppenheimer.
Brosnan told the BBC: “Cillian would do a magnificent job as James Bond on His Majesty’s Secret Service.”
Cillian was also in attendance at the Oscar Wilde Awards in Santa Monica, which celebrates Irish actors and filmmakers.
The Oppenheimer star said he hadn’t heard anything on the Bond rumour front and asked about potentially winning the Oscar said: “I just want to go in and have a good time.”
The 47-year-old, who may be too old and already established as an A-lister to be beginning a Bond career, currently has odds of 9-1 to take up the Licence to Kill next.
