De [url2]http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070579408058&call_pageid=976600361453&col=969048864482[]Toronto[/url2] Star has heeft een interview gepubliceerd met Ewan McGregor waarin hij niet ontkend in de 'running' te zijn om de volgende james Bond te worden.

[eng]He's the right age — 32 — and certainly has the right accent, since fellow Scotsman Sean Connery still tops every poll for the fans' favourite Bond. And since McGregor has already proven himself as one pop icon, playing the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in three Star Wars prequels, why not add Agent 007 to his lifetime to-do list?

"There has been talk of it, but not with the people that matter," McGregor says. "I believe Pierce is either doing his last (Bond film) or he's doing one more.

"It's interesting. It's a fun thing to talk about when it's not really even on the cards. In the same respects, I'm not sure what would happen if it cropped up. You'd have to really think about it. I think you'd have to really think about it in the same way that I did with the Star Wars films. I really thought about it and spoke to people I knew and in the end I just wanted to do it more and more, the closer it got.

"I think it would be the same with Bond. It might take a bigger man to turn it down."[/eng]