
Dame Helen Mirren has mentioned James Bond needs to be performed by a person, regardless that she is “such a feminist”.
In a brand new interview with Saga Journal, the Oscar-winning actor mentioned “you possibly can’t have a girl. It simply does not work. James Bond must be James Bond, in any other case it turns into one thing else”.
Amazon MGM Studios will produce the following iteration of the spy franchise, with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight set to jot down what’s going to develop into the twenty sixth movie within the collection.
The Studios beforehand mentioned they have been planning a “recent” tackle franchise however would honour the “legacy” of the “iconic character”.
The 80-year-old is at present starring reverse former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan within the a lot anticipated movie adaption of The Thursday Homicide Membership, through which she performs a retired spy.
Brosnan, 72, additionally advised the journal that he believed a male actor ought to proceed to play Bond and he was excited to “see an entire new exuberance and life for this character.”
He starred in 4 Bond movies throughout his tenure as 007, beginning with GoldenEye in 1995 and ending with Die One other Day, which was launched in 2002.
Mirren has beforehand been quoted saying that the idea of James Bond was “born out of profound sexism”, and that girls have all the time been an “extremely necessary half” of the Secret Service.
Mirren and Brosnan usually are not the primary to push again on the concept of Bond being performed by a girl, with the sentiment echoed by Brosnan’s Die One other Day costar, Halle Berry.
“In 2025, it is good to say, ‘Oh, she needs to be a girl.’ However, I do not actually know if I believe that is the fitting factor to do,” she mentioned, talking at Cannes Movie Competition in Might.
The James Bond franchise was owned by the Broccoli household for greater than 60 years, however producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson bought inventive management to Amazon for a reported $1bn (£760m) earlier this yr.
Hypothesis about who will subsequent play the titular character has been rife, with British actors Aaron Taylor-Johnson and James Norton rumoured as frontrunners for the half.
There isn’t a present launch date set for the following movie.