Goldie thinks Idris Elba sticks out from the crowd too much to play James Bond.
The 52-year-old star – who played a Bond villain in ‘The World Is Not Enough’ – has insisted it would be difficult for Idris to replace Daniel Craig as the iconic character, saying a "black guy in the middle of Russia in a casino" would be too easy to spot.
Speaking at the 2018 AIM Independent Music Awards in London on Tuesday (04.09.18), Goldie told BANG Showbiz: "I’d love to see him do it but you see a black guy in the middle of Russia in a casino you know, he’s gonna kind of stick out a bit, isn’t he? Like, it’s obvious who the spy is!"
Goldie is a huge fan of the British actor and claimed that if Idris does manage to make a success of the Bond role, it’ll prove that anything is possible.
The musician explained: "He’s a don, he’s an absolute don … if he does it fine, anything’s possible. But if it stays within the world of what Bond is, you know…?
"Hopefully in a multicultural world maybe he won’t stick out as much, hopefully."
Last month, Idris questioned whether the world is ready for the first black Bond.
Although the London-born actor is interested in playing 007, he doesn’t think cinema goers around the world want to see a black man play the character.
He said: "I think in England we have reached that stage [of having a black James Bond] because culturally we’re sort of a lot more diverse but the rest of the world is not like that and I think there is a real sort of stigma. It’s like, ‘Oh he’s black, can he do it because he’s black?’"
Goldie thinks Idris Elba would be ‘too easy to spot’ as James Bond
