Yahoo News James Bond Will Never Be Played By A Woman But Could Be Any Ethnicity, Say Bosses
The idea of James Bond being played by a woman has been getting a particular stratum of perpetually angry men exercised for a few years now.
They could be doing anything – choosing between Super Noodle flavours in Tesco, phoning their grandma, having a nice stare out of a window – and they'd suddenly be gripped by a spasm, and have to shout to no-one in particular: "JAMES BOND IS NOT A WOMAN." Call it Irritable Bond Syndrome.
Those men have finally – finally! – caught a break. They'll be cracking open a crisp, refreshing can of Monster to toast the news that James Bond bosses and keepers of the flame, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, have confirmed that James Bond isn't suddenly going to change gender any time soon. He may, however, be played by a British BAME actor.
"He can be of any colour, but he is male," Broccoli told Variety. "I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I'm not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that."
"You think of him as being from Britain or the Commonwealth, but Britain is a very diverse place," said fellow producer, Wilson.
Very true. The frontrunners on that score, for us at least, would be Riz Ahmed, John Boyega, Daniel Kaluuya and Henry Golding, though that deep, melancholy sound you just heard was Idris Elba sighing at the thought of having to field another two years of questions about playing Bond. Broccoli's notes on adding more roles for women certainly look to be borne out by the prominence of Lashana Lynch's double-O agent and Ana de Armas' CIA agent in No Time To Die.
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