Several actors have already been tipped to follow Craig, including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi, Harris Dickinson and Sir Idris Elba. Debbie McWilliams, who cast the previous 14 Bond films, said the spy should remain white and male. At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, earlier in the year, she told Variety: “Ian Fleming wrote a character, and that’s the character that stays. Elba himself told British GQ in June: “Bond is big all over the world. And [audiences] won’t [all] go for a black male, an African male, playing Bond.