Nicholas Hoult won’t say
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As mentioned the other day in my post about Jack Lowden, the pop culture arms race known as Bond Search took on a whole new complexion when Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult entered the chat last week.
Denis Villeneuve was asked about taking on Bond because he’s out in the wild now with Dune Part 3:
And Nicholas Hoult is also out in the wild because his new movie, How to Rob a Bank, opens this Friday and there was a premiere in New York last night, the first time really that he’s been in front of a media wall since news broke about him supposedly being one of the last to screen test to play James Bond. Intriguingly…
Bond is now an Amazon MGM property and, well, guess what studio is behind How to Rob a Bank? That’s right, it’s Amazon MGM. As I wrote earlier this week in that Jack Lowden article, the leaks at this point, in my opinion, have to be coming from the studio; I find it very hard to believe that there are unauthorised sources out here on these streets just running their mouths without some kind of directive.
Anyway, Nicholas was asked straight up about the Bond rumours last night and conveniently had Pete Davidson with him (he has a role in the movie) and this is what happened:
Pete doing a great job deflecting but also… LOL, Nicholas Hoult has no poker face. If anyone needs proof that he did indeed screentest, this would be it. He can’t make eye contact, he’s trying to remain impassive… but when the effort is so evident that he’s trying to look impassive, the effect is the opposite. That said, I understand how he might be feeling. The stakes are clearly high for all the actors involved because they want it. And you never know what might tip the chances in either direction.
Nicholas is wearing Prada, which he wears a lot, a set featuring what looks like a denim jacket under a blazer in the same small-checked print. I love it.
As for How to Rob a Bank, this is a David Leitch movie, so it’s stunt-forward… but the plot is well suited to our times: a group of thieves posting their heists on social media who gain a following because F-ck Capitalism.
Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Pete Davidson attend the "How To Rob A Bank" New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on November 10, 2026 in New York City
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