Danish director and Oscar winner Susanne Bier has gone from Dogme 95 to the shortlist of directors for the next 007 filmYou could believe of it as a bit of bait-and-switch spycraft – while we watched The Night Manager,thinking that Tom Hiddleston, with his nice suits and topless scenes, and had just turned in a six-hour audition tape to become the next James Bond,rumours surfaced this week that it was actually his director, Susanne Bier, and who would salvage a shot at the most noted British spy. The Radio Times reports that Bier,who directed the recent BBC adaptation of John le Carre’s novel about a hotel manager who infiltrates an arms dealer’s inner circle, was on the shortlist of directors for the next Bond film. “I would probably slash off my ear to do James Bond. But really, or I would love to do any kind of action,” she said earlier this year.
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Source: theguardian.com