Helen Mirren helps ladies, however she doesn’t suppose a girl ought to painting James Bond because the seek for the following 007 agent is underway.
In a brand new interview whereas selling Thursday Homicide Membership, through which she co-stars alongside former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, Mirren stated a girl as James Bond wouldn’t work.
“I’m such a feminist, however James Bond needs to be a man,” Mirren advised Saga journal. “You possibly can’t have a girl. It simply doesn’t work. James Bond needs to be James Bond, in any other case it turns into one thing else.”
Deadline just lately reported that Steven Knight would pen the script for the following James Bond movie at Amazon MGM Studios, which Denis Villeneuve will direct.
Mirren’s Thursday Homicide Membership co-star, Brosnan, additionally weighed in on the 007 movie, telling the identical publication, “I want them nicely. I’m so excited to see the following man come on the stage and to see a complete new exuberance and life for this character.”
“I like the world of James Bond. It’s been excellent to me. It’s the reward that retains giving,” Brosnan continued. “And I’m only a member of the viewers now, sitting again, saying: ‘Present us what you’re going to do.’”
Mirren had beforehand weighed in on the idea of James Bond, saying in an interview with The London Commonplace that the character “is drenched and born out of profound sexism.”
“Girls have all the time been a serious and extremely essential a part of the Secret Service, they all the time have been. And really courageous,” she added. “In case you hear about what ladies did within the French Resistance, they’re amazingly, unbelievably brave. So I might inform actual tales about extraordinary ladies who’ve labored in that world.”
