Robbie Williams may yearn to portray James Bond, but if casting director Debbie McWilliams has any choice in the matter, Russell Crowe will get the part.
The BBC quoted an online interview with McWilliams saying that Williams, who stole some Bond imagery for his "Millennium" video, doesn't have what it takes to play Agent 007.
"Robbie Williams, bless him, I don't think is quite what we're looking for," McWilliams, who has cast six Bond films, told the Internet radio station Netfm.com.
Whoever choses to follow Pierce Brosnan as Bond must be "devastatingly handsome, incredibly fit and available," she said.
"Strangely enough, if you saw what was in my postbox, it seems that every man who walks this earth thinks he is James Bond," she said.
"Russell Crowe, maybe, but I think it will be somebody less well known."
The BBC said British papers have reported that the obscure Scottish actor Gerard Butler has been approached to step into Bond's shoes when Brosnan steps aside.
Butler's only leading role so far was in Wes Craven's "Dracula 2000," although he had a small part in the Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
McWilliams said the screenplay for the next Bond film, known in the industry as "XX," has been completed.
"The script is on the producer's desk but I haven't been able to open it yet ... I gather we're going to some far-flung places this time," the BBC quoted her as saying.
Meanwhile, the British movie news website Popcorn.co.uk quotes former Bond Roger Moore saying his pick for the next super spy would be African-American star Cuba Gooding Jr., saying it's high-time there was a black Bond.
Gooding, who earned a best supporting actor Oscar for his work in "Jerry Maguire," will next be seen in the World War II epic "Pearl Harbour." (More on Robbie Williams, Russell Crowe and Cuba Gooding Jr.)
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