Henry Cavill really got here agonisingly near being James Bond again in 2006 when he was right down to the final two alongside one other little identified (on the time) actor, Daniel Craig. Everyone knows how that went, and the poor 23-year-old was additionally informed to perhaps get in higher form. 17 years later and the British hunk is a spectacular specimen, with a again catalogue jam-packed with muscular actions figures from Superman and the Witcher to the beefcake baddie in Mission Inconceivable 7. He has by no means hidden his goals to step into that 007 tuxedo and this month his hope surged once more.
Cavill was the frontrunner favorite to be the subsequent James Bond for a lot of final yr – till younger pretender Aaron Taylor-Johnson was reported to have display screen examined for the function and impressed Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.
Nevertheless, this has now been disputed and Cavill has surged again out entrance within the newest odds from UK bookies Ladbrokes.
Spokesman Alex Apati informed Categorical On-line: “Henry Cavill has this month been the topic of extra bets on Daniel Craig’s substitute than every other title.”
Though Cavill was reasonably distressingly (for a lot of DC followers) dropped as Superman in James Gunn’s new imaginative and prescient for the DCEU that includes a youthful Clark Kent, he nonetheless has a raft of latest tasks lined up, together with a slick spy movie. He’ll play the lead in Matthew Vaughan’s Argylle, out later this yr. The avid gamer has additionally signed a serious cope with Netflix to carry the Warhammer universe to the display screen.
Hopefully, the British actor will not be aged out of Bond competition, however it’s price remembering that he turns 40 this yr and business studies say Broccoli is searching for an actor beneath that age to take over a task that would doubtlessly span at the least a decade of movies.
