James Bond, that is. “Someone told me for definite who the new Bond is the other day, but I mean that’s happened before,” he teased. Of course, this is far from the first time that a new name has shot up the prospective Bond rankings. Speaking to their difference as characters, Lowden brushed off any Bond parallels when discussing Cartwright in an interview with GQ back in 2022. While Lowden is undoubtedly stirring and exciting, it’s hard to argue that a conventionally attractive guy in his mid-to-late 30s might be “different.”