Ex-James Bond George Lazenby Says Aaron Taylor-Johnson Is Tough Enough For 007

Aaron Taylor-Johnson gettin’ his license to kill it as James Bond from a former 007 … who tells us ATJ’s acquired the toughness to deal with the key agent life.

George Lazenby — who performed Bond in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” — gave Aaron his seal of approval … saying the 33-year-old can deal with the stunts, and all the women who love a person in a tux.

Price noting, Aaron’s already acquired a number one girl of his personal — director/producer Sam Taylor-Johnson … however we get the place George is goin’.

Lazenby provides he is fairly certain Aaron does not have the half but … ‘trigger when he auditioned for the half again within the Sixties, he went by way of a bunch of various assessments and auditions earlier than he received the function.

James Bond has gone completely worldwide now, in line with George … who factors out the character’s been performed by folks of various nationalities over the previous 60 years, together with a Scot, a Welshman, an Irishman, a number of Englishmen, and George himself, who’s Australian.

Due to that number of nationwide origins, Lazenby says he is wonderful with wherever the actor occurs to hail from … so long as they do the character justice.

GL’s acquired some recommendation for Aaron too … telling the Golden Globe winner to be true to himself and reinvent the function to suit him — identical to George says he did all these years in the past.

In fact, George took over for iconic Bond actor Sean Connery in ‘OHMSS’ — and the function’s modified palms fairly just a few occasions since … going again to Connery earlier than Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig — who left the franchise after his fifth flip because the famed 007 agent in again 2021.

Now, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s reportedly got an offer in entrance of him to step into the function, successful out over different actors like Idris Elba and Henry Cavill.