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Michelle Keegan and Jodie Comer are battling it out as the bookies' favourites to take the female lead in the next Bond movie


Michelle Keegan and Jodie Comer are in the favourite running by bookies to land the next Bond role.

A betting expert told the MailOnline: 'Michelle Keegan has recently announced herself on the world stage in Netflix's Fool Me Once, in a starring role as grieving mother Maya Stern, who spends the series on a solo mission to investigate her husband's death after appearing to see him on her nanny cam when he was presumed dead. 'The actress has had the perfect training ground in hit BBC spy thriller Killing Eve, for which she landed a Primetime Emmy Award for her superb portrayal of sociopathic assassin Villanelle. She's been inundated with movie scripts and proposals for potential new roles as film chiefs fight it out to make Michelle the latest Brit actress to conquer the big screen.

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