Taron Egerton says he's not part of the Bond conversation: "I think they've already got someone and it's not me"

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Taron Egerton is a busy man, having just finished filming a new Netflix movie and rounded up press on his Apple TV Plus show Black Bird. Next up, he's got Tetris, the latest film Egerton stars in from Matthew Vaughn's British-American production company Marv Studios. Directed by Jon S. Baird (Filth, Stan & Ollie), Tetris is not a video-game movie in the traditional sense, instead telling the story of the development and Henk Rogers' involvement in it. 

"When Matthew [Vaughn, producer] asked me over the phone what I thought, I was a bit like, 'What is it that you think..?' I don't know," Egerton tells Total Film magazine (opens in new tab) in the latest issue, which features Renfield on the cover. "It was hard to wrap my head around it. I read it and it's just mad as a box of frogs, you know? It's this insane story with this really lovable, eccentric central character. And, yeah, I just thought, 'Why not? I'll have a bit of that.' It was right at the end of the first lockdown that I signed up to do [the film]. The world had been stopped for a few months, and I was just so excited to get back out there, really."

Egerton's name has also been linked to James Bond casting rumors ever since he hit the big screen in Kingsman: The Secret Service. However, according to Egerton, he's not involved in the conversations for that. When asked by Total Film (opens in new tab) about this, he says: "Yeah. I mean, I think they've already got someone, and it's not me." 

Pushed on whether this is just based on instinct, Egerton adds: "Yeah. I mean, I've never been a part of the conversations. I've never met the Broccolis. They've never enquired about me. I've just never been one of the guys that they're looking at. I just don't think I'm the