The name’s Norton: Keaton says co-star is the perfect Bond

JAMES NORTON should be the next James Bond, Diane Keaton has said.

The actress, 71, who plays Norton’s mother in the upcoming film Hampstead, about London hermit Harry Hallowes, said she was certain that the 31-year-old was the best choice to follow Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s spy.

“Don’t you think he’s going to be the next James Bond?” she asked in The Mail on Sunday’s Event magazine.

“He ticks every box. He’s beautiful, he’s a man, he’s very sexy, he is smart and he even went to Cambridge.”

In the race to be the next Bond, the bookies have Norton at 4/1, slightly behind Michael Fassbender and Aidan Turner at 3/1 and favourite Tom Hardy at 5/2. Jamie Bell, Henry Cavill, Benedict Cumberbatch and Idris Elba are also all in the running.

However Norton, who is best known for his roles in Happy Valley and Grantchester, said: “If it ever comes to pass that there is in the future even the remotest conversation about Bond, there will only be one condition as far as I am concerned, which would be to have Diane Keaton as a Bond girl.”