{
  "id": 18799593,
  "title": "Bill Skarsgård Says He ‘Wasn’t Even Thrown Into the Mix’ to Be James Bond, Despite British and Australian Actors Auditioning: ‘Maybe They Were Like, “We Can’t Do a Swede”’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/bill-skarsgard-says-he-wasnt-even-thrown-into-the-mix-to-be-james",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-07T22:13:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/bill-skarsgard-playing-villains-james-bond-film-1236942134/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bill Skarsgård won’t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain. In a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Skarsgård revealed he wasn’t asked to test for Denis Villeneuve’s reboot. “They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what that was about,” he joked. “Every single British, […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}