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Q: What is David James Elliott's next project? He is an excellent actor. Is there any chance he will be the next James Bond?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Coming off a pretty big role in the high-profile 2015 film "Trumbo," David James Elliott's next project is a modest indie picture called "Camera Store." As for his chances at one day playing James Bond, let's say they're slim.

"Camera Store" is a quiet-sounding ensemble drama set in a suburban shopping mall, and also stars fellow TV veteran John Larroquette and the great character actor John Rhys-Davies. It recently wrapped filming, but there's no word yet on a release date (being an indie pic, a distribution deal has to be negotiated first).

Elliott, who is still best known for starring in the late-'90s/early-'00s legal drama "JAG," is coming off the role of a lifetime, playing film legend John Wayne in "Trumbo," a biography of the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Elliott was nominated, along with the rest of the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Even so, and despite fitting the profile in a number of other ways (including being an established star with a pretty distinguished look), Elliott stands little chance of taking over the Bond role from Daniel Craig. In fact, Elliott was more or less ruled out the day he was born in Toronto, Canada.

Superspy James Bond has changed a bit over the years -- Craig is a much rougher sort of spy than Roger Moore was, for example. And there have even been calls for Idris Elba, a black actor, to take on the role. However, the actors who've played Bond have always been from the British Isles. The character is a British icon -- he even figured in London's Olympic opening ceremonies in 2012.

And though Canada is part of the British Commonwealth, that's likely not enough to satisfy the purists.

 

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