As the 007 casting speculation reaches across the pond, Austin Butler is taking himself out of the running. The Oscar nominee admitted it “would be kind of sacrilegious” for him to play the British MI6 agent as a California-born-and-raised actor,

Austin Butler is taking himself out of the 007 sweepstakes, but not out of the franchise. In a Hits Radio chat, the Caught Stealing opened up on his desire to work in a James Bond film, but before you imagine him in a spy suit, there's a catch.

With rumors swirling that an American could play James Bond, Glen Powell has already taken his name out of the running for 007.