James Bond: Outlander's Sam Heughan reveals he auditioned for 007 with Daniel Craig WATCH

The 38-year-old star is best known of playing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser in Outlander.

But before he bagged the part, he once auditioned for James Bond at the same time as Daniel Craig.

Appearing on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan, Sam was asked if he would ever like to play Bond.

He said: “Have I thought about it? Yeah, I have a few times.”

The actor continued: “I did audition for Bond a long time ago when they were redoing it with Daniel Craig when he was Bond 21.

“They were going to go younger with him and it was a pretty good experience.”

“It’s about time we got a Scottish Bond.”

Obviously, Sam doesn’t remember the first official 007 was played by Sir Sean Connery, who was born in Edinburgh.

Cavill said as recently as July that he would say yes to replacing Daniel Craig and that he’d love to be 007 next.

Speaking with Yahoo Movies, Cavill said: “I would love to do it of course. I think Bond would be a really fun role. It’s British, it’s cool. I think that now that I have my Mission: Impossible badge we can do real stunts and really amp it up as well.

“Not to say they weren’t doing real stunts I’m just saying it would be fun for me to actually take what I’ve learnt on this and carry it through to a movie like Bond.”

“I’d love to play a Brit. I don’t get to play a Brit very often. “So yes, I would love the opportunity and if they were to ask I would say ‘yes.’