--- title: Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond description: Rather than just being a Bond girl, Priyanka Chopra said she wanted to be the next Bond. canonical: https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-23T19:19:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:34.423Z og:title: Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond og:description: She has no interest in playing a Bond girl og:url: https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0742bbe4edb67e3/698894733c1639161945d5cf/priyanka-chopra-next-james-bond.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3799 og:image:height: 2137 og:image:alt: 2016 Time 100 Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond twitter:description: She has no interest in playing a Bond girl twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0742bbe4edb67e3/698894733c1639161945d5cf/priyanka-chopra-next-james-bond.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Actress Priyanka Chopra attends the 2016 Time 100 Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 26, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) Taylor Hill—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly May 23, 2016 7:19 PM UTC Even before the premiere of _Spectre_ in November, rumors were swirling about who might be the next person to play 007 — or one of the spy’s many love interests. One of the names that’s been bandied about is _Quantico_ star Priyanka Chopra, but in a [new interview with _Complex_](http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/priyanka-chopra-interview-2016-cover-story) for the magazine’s latest cover story, she revealed that she has no interest in being considered for a role as a Bond girl. “I get that all the time,” she told _Complex_. “But f— that — I wanna be Bond.” In the wide-ranging interview, Chopra also said that she’s excited for her part in the upcoming _Baywatch_ movie, adding that her role as the bad guy was originally written for a man. Chopra stars as the icy Victoria Leeds in _Baywatch_ (out May 19, 2017) alongside Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, and earlier this year, Chopra [spoke to EW](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/29/baywatch-priyanka-chopra) about her villainous ambitions on the Oscars red carpet. “I wanted to play a bad guy for a really long time,” she said at the time. “And I’m doing that in _Baywatch,_ so I’m excited.” Read the full interview with Chopra at [_Complex_](http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/priyanka-chopra-interview-2016-cover-story). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/23/priyanka-chopra-james-bond) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/"},"headline":"Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond","datePublished":"2016-05-23T19:19:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:34.423Z","description":"She has no interest in playing a Bond girl","url":"https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/","keywords":["motto","movies","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0742bbe4edb67e3/698894733c1639161945d5cf/priyanka-chopra-next-james-bond.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0742bbe4edb67e3/698894733c1639161945d5cf/priyanka-chopra-next-james-bond.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 Time 100 Gala","caption":"2016 Time 100 Gala","creditText":"Taylor Hill—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4345377/priyanka-chopra-next-bond/","name":"Priyanka Chopra Wants to Be The Next Bond"}}]}] ```