Last week, the tabloid revealed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson conducted a “screen test” at Pinewood Studios last September, and that producer Barbara Broccoli and her team had “adoredthe result, putting him right at the top of their list for the most coveted role on the planet.
Curiously, the information, released by a “source close” to the file, has not been commented on either by the production company Eon which manages the destinies of the saga, nor by the entourage of the actor who is currently in Australia on the filming of The Fall Guyan adaptation of the series The Falling Manwhere he gives the reply to Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Since the announcement of the withdrawal of Daniel Craig, dozens of names have circulated to take over. Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Richard Madden, Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Regé-Jean Page… On the other hand, the name of Aaron Taylor-Johnson had never been put forward, neither by the media nor by the bookmakers.