Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden aren't letting the Bond rumors go to their heads

Still, the question of Lowden potentially playing Bond looms over the married couple, like nailing down holiday plans or deciding what kind of food you’re in the mood for tonight, honey—those kinds of things. “I mean, we’re getting on with our life, to be honest,” Ronan said in an interview with The Associated Press to promote her new film, Bad Apples—which, again, is a regular thing people do every single day. “We have plenty of other things to be dealing with. It’s not really a subject that’s coming up in our house to be honest; the dog needs to be walked, the dinner needs to be made. We’re more focused on that. Jack’s on Slow Horses right now, and he’s having a good time on that.”

As for Lowden’s co-workers on Slow Horses, some of them can’t help but express their neighborly support for the jolly good fellow. Like series star Gary Oldman, who made a stir in September when he said Amazon’s search for the new Bond was over, only to soon after clarify he didn’t know anything about Bond, and leave him alone. Through it all, Oldman’s endorsement of Lowden to play a superspy who drives a car with twin-mounted machine guns remains, because that’s what normal people do for their fellow normal friends. “Gary Oldman thinks [Jack] is James Bond, which is its own thing,” Ronan said when AP broached the Bond subject. Yet Oldman’s support in this matter, like anything else in everyday life—sitting in a chair, smiling with mouths—is perfectly normal and relatable!