Speaking to The Sun about his ambition, he said, “Yeah, I’d definitely like to go for Bond, but in more like 20 years. There’d be nothing worse than, like, ‘Let’s get a fresh-faced Bond!’ That would be the worst idea in the world. It would be ridiculous to reinvent it as some young posh kid.
“After Daniel Craig, you have to have some baggage. I’d have to be tortured in the first few scenes. I’d have to do the first film with one arm or something.”
The actor also confessed that he’s started to be more concerned about his health now that he’s in his twenties. He said, “I think 26 is the turning point. I’ve got to make up for 10 years of living like a degenerate. I’ve suddenly become conscious of being unhealthy.
“You’ve spent every bit of free time since the age of 15 in a pub. And suddenly you’re like: ‘Oh God, I don’t want to be this grey ghost sitting there with a pot belly. I’ve got to get it together.’”
He also admitted that he took on his latest role in the film Cosmopolis to get away from being a teen star. He confessed, “You get to the point where you’re like, ‘I don’t want to do a film for a teen audience any more. I think the script was so bizarre, we thought it was quite funny it was even getting made. Literally it’s totally ridiculous.
“Ninety per cent of it is in a limo and it’s about getting a haircut and being worried about your asymmetrical prostate. It feels like an absolute ‘f*** you’ to any kind of hope of commercialism.
“I’m curious who, if anyone, sees it. It’s such a weird movie. I guess, because I’m in it.”
Right, we best get down the gym – if there’s any chance of R-Patz becoming Bond then we want to be in the running to play his Bond girl!