The Kotaku Slack is currently in shambles because the shortlist for the next James Bond actor has dropped and we all have big feelings about it. Deadline reports that there are at least three actors are in the final stages of being chosen to drive the implausibly tricked-out Aston Martin: Jack Lowden, Callum Turner, and Josh O’Connor. These three chaps:

Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O’Connor are among the actors in the mix to be the next James Bond.

They are currently doing final auditions.

(Source: Deadline) pic.twitter.com/DRGHZuFv2f

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Jack Lowden is a Scottish actor best known for his recurring role in Slow Horses (an Apple TV show you really should be watching ) and for being married to Saoirse Ronan. Callum Turner, a Brit, was unfortunately the leading man in the terminally unsexy “ sex purge ” movie One Night Only .…