The best choice to be the next James Bond? A total nobody

Who should be the next James Bond is always a tough question.But never more so than right now.Murmurs got loud after Daniel Craig donned the tuxedo for the final time in 2021’s “No Time To Die.” However, speculation has been deafening in the weeks since the franchise’s longtime producers, the Broccoli family, ceded creative control to SPECTRE, sorry, Amazon — perhaps out of fear that their decision-making will not be so prime.Jeff Bezos even tweeted, “Who’d you pick as the next James Bond?”Overeager Jeff sounds like he’s asking us to leave a review on Amazon. Fans have been shouting that Idris Elba should be Bond for what feels like 30 years.He’s 52 now, so that dream has been 00-86’d.And today, there’s a wrongheaded online push for former “Superman” Henry Cavill to take on the role of the MI6 agent with a license to kill.

Bad idea.Clark Kent is too recognizable, glasses or no.

And did you see “Argylle”? For your health and sanity, I hope not.My gut tells me that the ultimate 007 actor should not be very famous at all.Not yet, anyway.

It’s best if he’s not a household name until the very day the Bond producers reveal him.That means no Supermen, no Spider-Men (Andrew Garfield), no huge action movie heroes and no obvious A-listers.

Why? Because it’s vital for our escapism that the man disappear completely into the iconic role. Playing Bond is like joining the Men in Black — you surrender your whole identity. Much to Daniel Craig’s chagrin!Proving my point, the six splendid actors who’ve played the super-spy so far have come from smaller or prestige films, TV and relative obscurity.And now they’re only known for one thing — and that thing enjoys vodka martinis. Sean Connery had only appeared in a few modest movies such as “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” Roger Moore was Simon Templar on TV’s “The Saint.” Pierce Brosnan starred on “Remington Steele,” and Timothy Dalton acted in period pieces ...