The Skyfall trailer hints as to what Fiennes's involvement might be, but I'm not going to give it away - though I've known for more than a year, and there are rumours galore on the internet.
So he’s known some secret about the character for over a year and will not say. No surprise then that in October last year, he was being similarly enigmatic about Fiennes’s role.
Ralph Feinnes will play a role so top secret, I swallowed a pill to make me forget what I was told.
Of course, it was Bamigboye who first scooped that Fiennes was in talks to appear in Skyfall, back in February of last year. This is what he had to say at the time.
Mendes, has spoken to Fiennes about taking on what has been described to me as ‘a darkly complex’ role.
I was told Fiennes was approached because ‘the part is one of extreme complexity and only an actor of great ability and dexterity can take it on — and Ralph’s name is top of our list’.
My point is this, as there are ‘rumours galore’ that he will end up as M and Baz did not hold back with the Moneypenney spoiler, why so mysterious about what he knows about Fiennes’s character Mallory?
My feeling is that there is more to this than him ending up as M or that Mallory turns out to be something else entirely.
