‘Little Women' star Saoirse Ronan wants to go ‘dark' in new ‘James Bond' film

Saoirse Ronan is not shying away to actively campaign for a female Bond villain role.

Expressing her strong interest once again, the Little Women star said she is “dead serious” about wanting to take on a darker role in the James Bond universe.

While searching for the next 007 has been underway, Ronan said she would especially like to portray a young female villain who channels her pent-up anger into something dangerous.

“I want to go dark,” she told Empire. “I said that I wanted to be a Bond villain and I’m dead serious.”

“I think it would be really interesting, having a young female villain,” the Lady Bird actress continued. “Especially for girls and women, to see someone who can just take all that pent-up anger and direct it somewhere."

“There's something interesting in that dramatically. So I would love to do more of that,” she added.

This was not the first time that the 32-year-old American-Irish beauty has expressed her desire to play a Bond villain.

In an interview from 2024, she told Vanity Fair, “I will stand by really wanting to play a Bond villain, which I will say again and again.”