Jason Statham said in a recent interview with the Guardian, “I really want to become agent 007.” In all honesty, Daniel Craig is the ideal James Bond. Plus, I’ll bring a respectable James Bond back. If I were Agent 007, things would be quite different.”

Given that Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton, two actors who established their careers as renowned spies, both have Welsh and Scottish accents, Jason Statham was seen to be a good fit for the James Bond role. In addition, Jason Statham’s look more closely aligns with the idea of a contemporary British spy than the archetypal one.

Jason Statham once assisted his father in making phony jewelry and perfume sales on the streets of London after going through a terrible upbringing. Jason Statham rose to fame with the television series The Transporter, and he first appeared in film in 1998 with the film Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. With a global box office receipt of USD 1.5 billion, the film Fast & Furious 7, in which he portrayed the antagonist, rose to the fourth position in the history of box office receipts. Action movies come to mind when fans hear the name Jason Statham.

The actor has frequently stated how much he admires seasoned action movie stars like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone, Liam Neeson, and Denzel Washington. The 48-year-old actor revealed that he admires people who take on dangerous action sequences on their own without the assistance of a stuntman. Statham, on the other hand, dislikes playing superhero roles because the genre frequently makes use of stunt performers and visual effects.

This summer, Jason Statham caught everyone off guard with his comedic turn in the spy film Spy. The actor claimed he didn’t want to get into comedy, though. Next up for Jason Statham is the thriller Viva La Madness. He will then get back to work on the Fast & Furious 8 project after that.