Dame Judi Dench aka M has backed Idris Elba as the next James Bond.
Elba's name has been in the mix for awhile despite him dismissing rumours and fans' calls backing him for the role as 007.
Now Dame Judi has spoken and she thinks he'd do a great job.
Speaking to The Telegraph , Dench said: “Oh I think he would be a brilliant Bond.”
Dench was talking about her upcoming film Cats, the adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which also stars Elba.
She also revealed they shared a cheeky 007 joke while filming.
Dench said: “When we filmed Cats he kept saying to me ‘Will you send me to the Heaviside Layer?’ And at one point I turned to him and said: ‘No – I’ll send you to MI6’.”
Dench's M was killed off in Skyfall with Ralph Fiennes taking on the role, though she did crop up in Spectre.
Daniel Craig has just started filming the next Bond movie, the as yet unnamed Bond 25, in Norway as he was seen flying to meet up with the crew. Set photos showed a new masked man character chasing a young girl across some ice.
The film will be his last outing as the MI6 agent speaking speculation over who will replace him.
As well as Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Richard Madden, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy have all been linked with the role.
More recently Outlander's Sam Heughan was linked with 007 after Mail on Sunday reported he had got a call to audition for producer Barbara Broccoli.
Bond 25 is released in cinemas on April 3, 2020.
