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		</div><p>Damian Lewis has said it would be unlikely he is the next actor to play James Bond because he will be too old by the time the film is made.</p>
<p>The Homeland star – along with Idris Elba, Aidan Turner and Cillian Murphy – has long been tipped for the role after Daniel Craig ends his tenure as the famous spy.</p>
<p>Damian Lewis has said it would be unlikely he is the next actor to play James Bond because he will be too old by the time the film is made.</p>
<p>The Homeland star – along with Idris Elba, Aidan Turner and Cillian Murphy – has long been tipped for the role after Daniel Craig ends his tenure as the famous spy.</p>
<p>However, he added: <em>“But on the other hand, from a diversity point of view, don’t you think it’s about time we had a ginger Bond?”</em></p>
<p>Craig was confirmed as the sixth actor to portray Bond in 2005 at the age of 37.</p>
<p>The 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, starring Craig as Bond for his fifth outing, will be released next year.</p>
<p>It is believed it will be Craig’s final appearance as the suave spy, at the age of 51.</p>
<p>There have been reports that British actress Lashana Lynch will take over Bond’s famous codename after his character leaves MI6 in the new film – but she will not be the next Bond.</p>
<p>Richard Madden, Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston are among the other names who have been tipped for the role after Craig hangs up his tuxedo.</p>
<p>While Lewis has ruled himself out of playing Bond, he does believe he could have what it takes to be a spy himself because he went to boarding school in his youth.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“If you are sent away from your family at the age of eight, it gives you a rigour, a dissociative quality that is extremely useful for spies because they have to be able to shut down parts of their emotional life.</em></p>
<p><em>“That’s why the British secret services actively recruited public schoolboys.”</em></p>
<p>From October 7, Lewis fronts an eight-part docudrama series called Damian Lewis: Spy Wars on the History channel, which is comprised of archive footage, interviews with former agents and dramatic reconstructions, each episode looking at a different espionage story from the past 40 years.</p>
<p>Radio Times is available now.</p>
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