SCREEN star Sydney Sweeney is in line to be a Bond bombshell in the next 007 film.

The franchise’s new director Denis Ville­neuve is a friend, and keen to cast the White Lotus and Euphoria actress, 27.

Sydney also has the backing of Jeff Bezos, boss of Amazon — which has creative control of the series.

A movie source said: “Sydney is the top name on the casting sheet for Bond.

“Denis believes she is hugely talented, as well as having an alluring appeal to younger generations, vital in modernising the franchise.

“They’ve hung out together a lot and he has admired her stratospheric rise.

“Plus Sydney has the quality of being athletic and able to perform physical scenes, as well as being feminine and following in the legacy of Bond girls.”

She recently transformed her figure to play US boxer Christy Martin in a new biopic, lifting weights daily and kickboxing.

Sydney was pictured last year chatting to Villeneuve, 57, and Bond girl Ana de Armas, 37, at the Toronto Film Festival.

And last month she was a guest at Bezos’s Venice wedding.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and James Norton are among the favourites to replace Daniel Craig — whose last film as Bond was 2021’s No Time to Die.