It’s inevitable that a new James Bond actor will be announced soon. Denis Villeneuve is directing , Steven Knight is writing , and Amazon is eager to get its big-ticket IP back into theaters. But what if those rumors of a younger star (Jacob Elordi, Harris Dickinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson… take your pick among the names being tossed around) are just misdirection—and the studio decides to bet on a sure thing, skewing way older than Ian Fleming ever imagined for his signature character?

It’s a long shot, admittedly. But Pierce Brosnan, who played Bond in four movies ( GoldenEye , Tomorrow Never Dies , The World Is Not Enough , and Die Another Day ), says he’s up for the challenge. Speaking to the Radio Times , the 72-year-old actor had a good-natured reaction to being asked

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