Louis Partridge Joins James Bond Candidate List

Until now, most of the names being mentioned as potential candidates for the new James Bond are ones we’ve been hearing about for a while.

Callum Turner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jacob Elordi, and to a lesser extent Harris Dickinson have all been mentioned as potentials for many months now, with Turner seemingly the favourite.

Now, a new name has entered the fray – Louis Partridge. The 23-year-old British actor has built up quite a resume in the past few years and is best known for his role as Viscount Tewkesbury, a potential love interest for Millie Bobby Brown’s character in the “Enola Holmes” films.

Other major roles include Alfonso Cuaron’s “Disclaimer” where his character was the key to all the events that took place, Peter Pan in “The Lost Girls” film in 2022, and the younger versions of Henry Cavill and Billy Crudup’s characters in “Argylle” and “Jay Kelly” respectively. He will soon be seen as Wickham in the new “Pride and Prejudice”.

Most recently, he’s been playing Edward Guinness in Netflix’s “House of Guinness”, a series created and penned by Steven Knight who is also penning the new Bond film.

Variety today is reporting that Partridge is in contention for the job and claim this goes well “beyond simply being put on a bookmaker’s list”. However, as this isn’t from anyone involved in the key creative team, they advise “this is no more than speculation” and attempts to confirm this have been futile.

One difference is that Partridge is considerably younger than all the other candidates mentioned so far, who are either late 20s or mid-30s. Most of the Bond actors cast to date over the years have been in their 30s or 40s, but it is known that Amazon MGM Studios wants to go younger with the character.

If this report has any truth, they’re going considerably younger than expected – a producer telling the trade “writing a film to be led by a 23-year-old is completely different to writing one for a 36-year-old.”

Denis Villeneuve is slated to direct the next Bond film, and casting is expected to officially get underway sometime this Summer ahead of a 2027 shoot.