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Daniel Craig thinks Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp should be the new James Bond

Daniel Craig thinks Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp should be the new James Bond

Daniel Craig wants Jurgen Klopp to be the next Bond
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James Bond 

Now that Daniel Craig’s drank his last martini and sailed off into the sunset, people are already starting to speculate – who will be the next James Bond? Could it be Idris Elba, might it be Tom Hardy, would they consider a woman in the role?

Well, he may have handed back his license to kill, but Craig’s suggested a somewhat left-field choice for his successor, or should that be ‘left-football-field’ choice… no, I’ve never willingly watched football how did you know? In an interview with Sky Sports, Craig was asked whether he thought Liverpool Football Club manager Jurgen Klopp would make a good James Bond.

Being a die-hard Liverpool fan, Craig said that yes, the man who’s led his team to Premiership glory would be a great Bond. “I mean, I worship him, so yes. I mean, I’ve been lucky enough to meet him a couple of times, and you just want to follow him,” the spy movie star explained. “There’s a couple of people I’ve met over the years like that – the other one’s Alex Ferguson, but I shouldn’t really mention him. [Klopp’s] a leader, and he’s way beyond James Bond really.”

So there we have it, Craig would like to see Klopp play Bond but also thinks he’d be wasting his talents as an international man of mystery. While Craig seems relatively keen on having a football coach take over as Bond, he’s less keen on seeing a woman in the role.

“The answer to that is very simple. There should simply be better parts for women and actors of colour,” Craig told the Radio Times when asked about the possibility of a female Bond. “Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”

If you can’t get enough international espionage and general thrills, then No Time To Die is in cinemas now, or you check out our list of the best thriller movies of all time.

After graduating with an MA in journalism from the University of Salford, Tom set out to make a career for himself in the heady world of entertainment journalism. After spending six years working at UNILAD (and moonlighting at the BBC) where he interviewed the likes of Hugh Grant, Hugh Jackman, and Hugh Bonneville (plus other people not called Hugh) he left to find his fortune as editor at The Digital Fix where he spends his days trying to guess if the MCU's Doctor Doom will be in Avengers Secret Wars, thinking about Spider-Man, and watching Game of Thrones in a desperate attempt to untangle the Targaryen family tree.