Priyanka Chopra plays an up-and-coming FBI agent on ABC’s Quantico, but the leading lady has her eye on a much bigger, wildly coveted role.

The 33-year-old actress tells Complex magazine that she has been told that she would make a great Bond girl in the 007 film franchise. “I get that all the time,” she says with a sigh. “But f**k that. I wanna be Bond!”

Over the weekend, X-Files star Gillian Anderson also joked that she too wouldn’t mind being cast as the beloved spy. “It’s Bond. Jane Bond,” the 47-year-old actress tweeted with the hashtag “#NextBond.”

While it’s yet to be determined who will fill Daniel Craig’s shoes as the next Bond, Chopra – who was recently cast as the villain in the Baywatch movie – says she’s out to break the typecasting in Hollywood. “I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood, and henna,” Chopra, who got her start as a Bollywood actress, explains. “That’s all great! It’s what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music; I love henna; I love dancing, but that’s not all we are.”

The international star opened up to ET recently about her big break in show business. “When I became Miss World, movie offers started coming to me in India,” Chopra said. “I was like, 'You know what? I’ve been brought here for a reason,’ and I started believing that I was the other Destiny’s Child [member] besides Beyonce, because destiny had plans for me.”

After Priyanka Chopra announced her desire to play James Bond, the actress clarified her qualifications in an interview with TheWrap on Monday.

“I don’t think Bond does too much, he’s just suave and sexy,” the “Quantico” star told TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell. “He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.”

Chopra sent fans into a frenzy on Monday when a social media-friendly quote from her Complex cover story went viral. While discussing the possibility of playing a Bond girl in one of the franchise’s upcoming films, the actress said, “F–k that–I wanna be Bond.”

And if the actor to take up the mantle from current 007, Daniel Craig, were to be a woman, that doesn’t mean the character’s name has to change. In fact, Chopra says it absolutely should not.

“It has to be James,” she said. “It’s so hot.”

Daniel Craig has reportedly said he is “done” playing James Bond, just days after a bookmaker suspended betting on his replacement following a large wager on Tom Hiddleston.

Daniel, 48, is said to have turned down a £68 million offer from MGM Studios to return as 007 for two more films after 2015′s Spectre.

Last year the actor joked to Time Out that he would rather “slash my wrists” than play the British Secret Service agent again.

He told studio bosses that returning to the role “just wasn’t what he wanted” despite them throwing “huge amounts of money at him”, a source told the Daily Mail.

“Daniel is done – pure and simple – he told top brass at MGM after Spectre,” the source said.

He added: “He had told people after shooting that this would be his final outing, but the film company still felt he could come around after Spectre if he was offered a money deal.”

The source said a knee injury he suffered during filming for a scene in Spectre had helped him decide “it was a journey with an ending”.

A flurry of bets at the end of last week tipped The Night Manager star Tom to replace Daniel as the spy with the licence to kill, making him the 2-1 favourite.

After a particularly big gamble, his odds plummeted to 1-2 and Coral bookmakers suspended betting on Saturday.

Former James Bond star George Lazenby has backed Idris Elba to be the next actor to play 007.

The Australian, who starred in the 1969 film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, said there would be “a lot of people scratching their head” if a black actor was cast as Ian Fleming’s super spy, but he believed hiring Idris would be a “good idea”.

There has been much speculation about who will replace current Bond star Daniel Craig after he said he would rather “slash my wrists” than play the fictional spy again, with Tom Hiddleston and Damian Lewis also linked with the role.

When asked whether a black actor could play Bond, George, 76, told the Press Association: “That’s beyond me. I mean, why not? That’s what I say.

“But then on the other hand, you’re going to have a lot of people scratching their head going ‘James Bond wasn’t black’.

“It’s who they are, not what colour they are. It’s ‘are they a good guy or not?’ That’s what I’m looking for.”

Bad news for Tom Hiddleston fans! Despite the success of the hit BBC thriller, The Night Manager, Tom has denied that there are any plans to make a second season of the show.

After reports that the BBC was looking into renewing the show, the 35-year-old actor revealed that he feels the story of his character, Jonathan Pine, is over. He told The Sunday Mirror: "As it stands, Pine exists for six hours in a miniseries. The story feels complete. I know the rumours about it extending, but none of that is real."

Co-star Hugh Laurie confirmed that there would not be a season two, saying: "It’s based on a novel, we’ve got to the end of the novel and John le Carré has yet to write another novel, so in cold practical terms, no, we’re done."

The Marvel Avengers Assemble actor has also recently addressed rumours that he will be filling Daniel Craig's shoes as the the next James Bond.

Although Tom revealed that playing 007 would be an "extraordinary opportunity," he also described the rumours as "unreal." Speaking at the US launch of The Night Manager, he said: "People have very strong opinions about Bond and why shouldn't they? But it's difficult to talk about because it's a completely unreal conversation in a way. I haven't spoken to anyone who makes those films.

"It's odd because it's becoming overwhelming – not the thing of it, but the number of people per day who bring it up, it's actually becoming a weird thing to deal with."

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The Voice has caught flak for years due to its failure to launch a Clarkson- or Underwood-level recording artist. And while Season 9 winner Jordan Smith isn’t quite in that illustrious category, he has done what many other Voice winners could not (or simply were not given the opportunity to do). He’s actually a sales success story.

Smith’s first album, Something Beautiful, just debuted on the Billboard album chart at #2 – ironically right behind former Voice coach Gwen Stefani – and it also went to #1 on the iTunes and Amazon album charts. (The Billboard 200 takes into account album sales, track sales, and track streams.) This is the highest ranking on the charts for any TV singing competition winner in nearly five years, and it’s the highest album sales debut from a new artist in 2016 so far.

It obviously goes without saying that Smith’s 54,000 tally is the highest first-week album sales for any Voice winner, too. The previous record was held by Season 3 champ Cassadee Pope, whose debut album Frame by Frame sold 43,000 copies in its first week, followed by Season 4 winner Danielle Bradbery, whose self-titled debut raked in a first-week total of 41,000. The Voice’s only other big first-week sales story, aside from Pope and Bradbery, is Season 3 top six finalist Melanie Martinez, whose Cry Baby (on Atlantic Records) sold 41,000 when it was released in August last year.

The Voice (or, more specifically, its associated Universal label) has been notorious for not promoting the series’ alumni. Three past winners – Season 2’s Jermaine Paul, Season 6’s Josh Kaufman, and Season 7’s Craig Wayne Boyd – never put out post-Voice albums at all, and Season 8’s Sawyer Fredericks has still only released an EP almost a year after his win. Other contestants (Season 1’s Javier Colon, Season 5’s Tessanne Chin) released albums that quickly came and went.