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.