{"id":249116,"date":"2026-04-01T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249116"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:29:11","slug":"james-bond-to-be-played-by-a-woman-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249116\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond to be played by a woman for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>After years of incessant rumors, the actor who will take over the role of James Bond following Daniel Craig has been announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/04\/01\/so-long-daniel-craig-the-identity-of-the-new-james-bond-has-been-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, Scott Rose-Marsh and Callum Turner were rumoured to be in contention for the next superspy, and recent reports suggested that 28-year-old Australian actor Jacob Elordi was the current favourite to play 007.<\/p>\n<p>It is now confirmed that the new James Bond will be portrayed by Oscar-winning Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley, marking the first time the iconic spy character will be played by a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows Lashana Lynch briefly taking on the 007 role in Daniel Craig&rsquo;s final Bond film.<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon spokesperson told Euronews Culture: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re distancing ourselves from the previous stance held by franchise head Barbara Broccoli, who said that Bond should only be played by a man. We&rsquo;re thrilled to have Jessie Buckley on board. Additionally, her initials are also &lsquo;JB&rsquo;, so that&rsquo;s delightful. Plus, her singing background makes her the ideal candidate for the project, as we&rsquo;ve been thinking of adding some musical numbers into the mix.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of incessant rumors, the actor who will take over the role of James Bond following Daniel Craig has been announced, Euronews writes. The likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, Scott Rose-Marsh and Callum Turner were rumoured to be in contention for the next superspy, and recent reports suggested that 28-year-old Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249117,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249116\/revisions\/249117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}