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 could not comment on the potential part, adding: ‘If I told you, I would have to kill you.’
But the London-based actress has made no secret of her wish 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 certainly accept a role in Bond,’ her spokesman told The Mirror in April.
‘With Charlotte’s award-winning roles, infamous curves and sliver screen good looks it is natural she would position as a favorite for Bond.
‘Charlotte is currently the number one action female on the movie scene – her latest film The Lair made it to Number One in the US Box Office for action fiction thriller.’
Charlotte Kirk, 30, has said that she is auditioning for a role in the new Bond film
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 the Bond role
Bond producers are yet to confirm who will take the reins from Daniel Craig.
Current favorite is James Norton, followed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill.
The film – ‘Bond 26’ – will not be on our screens until 2025 at the earliest.
Kirk is known for her role in the 2018 film Ocean’s 8, alongside Sandra Bullock, and in the 2016 sci-fi thriller Vice, with Bruce Willis.
She is also known for bringing down two powerful Hollywood executives, who she dated and subsequently won roles in their films.
Kirk at 25 had an affair with Ron Meyer, the then 76-year-old former NBCUniversal vice chairman, and as a 21-year-old with the then-Warner Bros. chairman, 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 chair of NBCUniversal when he had an affair with Kirk, aged 25. He was also ousted
Kirk is seen in a photo from her Instagram
She also, in 2013, dated Australian billionaire James Packer.
Both Hollywood men used their power to help Kirk land mostly small roles in forgotten films.
In March 2019, The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Tsujihara had engaged in a relationship with Kirk in 2013; the news led to Tsujihara’s subsequent ouster.
Meyer was ousted from the company in August 2020, after 25 years, when news of his affair with Kirk was made public.
Kirk in 2017 met director Neil Marshall, a fellow Briton who had directed films such as 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 frequently work together.
Marshall and Kirk’s ex, Joshua Newton, were accused of trying to extort Meyer, which led him to go to the police, and subsequently be fired for the affair.
Marshall strongly denied being behind a plot to blackmail Meyer.
‘The allegations concerning myself, Ron Meyer and NBC/Universal are nothing but lies based upon falsehoods,’ 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 standing and lack of ethics, fueled by clickbait headlines such as we’ve seen these past few days, and carried out against the woman I love, my fiancé Charlotte Kirk.’
