Richard Madden refutes rumours of playing James Bond after Daniel Craig: 'It's all just noise'

Richard Madden is being billed as the next actor to play James Bond after Daniel Craig’s exit, but the Bodyguard star says the rumours are “just noise”. “It’s all just noise,” Madden, who shot to fame with HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones as Robb Stark, said of the reports. [caption id=“attachment_6462941” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Richard Madden. Image from Twitter @Guapazos[/caption] Bodyguard is BBC’s most-watched drama since the season finales of Downton Abbey. The actor, who plays the title role in the BBC series of David Budd, termed the reports as a pleasant aftereffect of the show’s success. “By March, there will be another British TV show with another young male actor, and then he’ll be the next James Bond for the following two months,” Madden told Elle magazine. He also recently won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama TV series for Bodyguard. Madden is currently looking forward to release of Elton John biopic, Rocketman , in which he portrays the music icon’s former manager, John Reid, who oversaw the singer’s career for over three decades starting in the 1970s. The film, which stars Taron Egerton in the lead, is scheduled to have its world premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. (With inputs from Press Trust of India)