Kendall Jenner rumoured to be top choice for Bond Girl in new 007 movie

Kendall Jenner might be the next Bond girl, according to the bookies (Picture: Getty/Shutterstock)

Kendall Jenner is reportedly now the top dog to play the Bond girl in the new James Bond franchise.

The role of the Bond girl is a coveted character played by some of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, including Rosamund Pike, Halle Berry, and Ana de Armas.

As the franchise is being revived with a whole new Bond, and of course, new Bond girls, there has been a lot of speculation about who might step into this iconic role.

The supermodel, 29, may not have had much acting experience, but she is reportedly now the top dog to play the leading Bond girl.

Bookies’ odds have seen the model skyrocket, with Coral revealing Kendall Jenner is now 1/2 (cut from 6/1)  to be the next Bond girl.

‘Kendall Jenner has jumped to the top of our next Bond girl betting following strong support over the last few days. The model is now odds-on to be involved in the next instalment of the iconic film franchise,’ said Coral’s John Hill.

Could Kendall be the next leading lady (Picture: Kendall Jenner/ Instagram) The model’s name is cropping up in a lot of bookies (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Other bookies also have odds on the model to be the next leading lady, but Paddy Power ranks her in fourth place behind the likes of other well-known actresses.

A Paddy Power spokesperson said: ‘Our number-crunchers reckon Sydney Sweeney could be about to swap Euphoria for espionage as the next ‘Bond Girl’, and she certainly has the glamour and star power to leave even 007 shaken and stirred.

‘English actress Florence Pugh is next in the betting with Ariana Grande just edging out another American in Kendall Jenner, who is an 8/1 shot to get the gig as the world’s most famous spy’s sidekick.’

Ursula Andress was both an actor and a model who starred in Dr. No in 1962 (Picture: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Kendall is of course, frequently on screens, but typically playing herself in various iterations of her reality TV show with her mother and sisters, The Kardashians.

The star has previously acted in 2012 in Hawaii Five-0 as a character named AJ, and in 2014 in The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, as Strawberry.

She has also appeared as herself in various music videos, and made cameos as herself in Ocean’s 8, and in a short film for Gucci titled The Tiger.

This wouldn’t be the first time a Bond girl has been a model. Israeli model Aliza Gur played Vida in 1963’s From Russia With Love, and Tania Mallett was a British model who resigned from the runway when she was cast as Tilly Masterton in 1964’s Goldfinger.

Martine Beswick who played Paula Caplan in 1965’s Thunderball, Denise Perrier who played Marie in Diamonds Are Forever, and. Barbara Bach who she played Anya Amasova in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, were all models before acting in Bond.

More recently, Olga Kurylenko made the transition from model to actor with her role of Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace opposite Daniel Craig in 2008.

A-listers in the running to be a Bond girl

Coral’s odds have predicted these women could be 007’s next leading lady:

Sydney Sweeney 2/1

Hailey Bieber 3/1

Cara Delevingne 5/1

Margot Robbie 6/1

Lily James 8/1

Sophie Turner 10/1

Daniel Craig starred opposite Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko (Picture: Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) From Russia With Love starred Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana who was an actress and model (Picture: Screen Archives/Getty Images)

Ever since Daniel Craig stepped down as James Bond in 2021, there has been huge speculation about who will play 007 next. Every other week, the bookies are changing their odds and predicting who might be the next Casanova to fill in the shoes of the beloved icon.

Jack Lowden, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner, and Theo James have all been front-runners for some time, but there’s been a recent twist in the tale.

Deadline confirmed that director Denis Villeneuve is looking for three things in the next 007: a man, a Brit, and an unknown, effectively ruining the bookies’ odds of the who’s who of major names in Hollywood.

Happy Valley star James Norton also officially ruled himself out of the running.

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