Actress Freida Pinto arrives for the 20th annual Producers Guild Awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on January 24, 2009. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo

Freida Pinto, a cast member in the film "Slumdog Millionaire" appears backstage at the15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on January 25, 2009. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo

Indian actress Freida Pinto attends the "Elle Style Awards" at Big Sky in London on February 9, 2009. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad) | License Photo

Indian actress Freida Pinto attends the "Elle Style Awards" at Big Sky in London on February 9, 2009. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad) | License Photo

Freida Pinto from "Slumdog Millionaire" arrives at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 22, 2009. (UPI Photo/ Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo

Freida Pinto from "Slumdog Millionaire" arrives at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 22, 2009. (UPI Photo/ Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo

Freida Pinto from "Slumdog Millionaire" arrives at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood on February 22, 2009. (UPI Photo/ Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, March 15 (UPI) -- Mumbai-born actress Freida Pinto, star of "Slumdog Millionaire," could soon be the next female star of a James Bond movie, a source says.

An unidentified source said Pinto has been asked by Barbara Broccoli, who produces the James Bond spy films, about serving as the next Bond girl, People.com reported Sunday.


The source said the 24-year-old beauty, who starred as Latika in "Slumdog," has been in the sights of Bond creators before the franchise's last installment, "Quantum of Solace."

"Freida came to the attention of the Bond team when they were casting 'Quantum of Solace,'" the source said, but "she was too young at the time to have a part as a love interest for a secret agent."

Pinto recently parlayed her "Slumdog" fame into an Indian Vogue magazine cover shoot and a deal with the Estee Lauder cosmetics group, People.com said.