Bill Skarsgård is kind of "spent" playing villains, but would gladly be James Bond's foe

While Robert Pattinson, Nicholas Hoult, Callum Turner, Jack Lowden, and Josh O’Connor are reportedly battling it out to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond, Bill Skarsgård is throwing his hat in the ring to play 007’s enemy. During an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Skarsgård said that after years of transformations for memorable villains like Pennywise and Nosferatu, he’s become more discerning about playing the bad guy and suspects his team probably filters out a lot of those roles before they ever reach him. “For a villain, it would have to be something that felt original to me, that was something that I hadn’t done before,” he said. “I feel kind of spent with those things. But there are villains that could be really fun in different ways.” One such role is a Bond nemesis, which would offer the appeal of a one-off movie deal similar to Mads Mikkelsen’s part in Casino Royale, “because they didn’t call me about James Bond,” he joked to Horowitz. “I don’t know what that was about. Every single British, Australian… But maybe they were like, ‘We can’t do a Swede for this guy.’ I wasn’t even thrown into the mix.”