Former Bond Girl Gemma Arterton calls idea of ​​female 007 ‘outrageous’

Gemma Arterton has some thoughts on the idea of ​​a female James Bond.

The British actor, who starred alongside Daniel Craig in 2008’s “Quantum of Solace” as ill-fated Bond girl Strawberry Fields, doesn’t think a female 007 would work.

“Isn’t a female James Bond like Mary Poppins played by a man? Arterton told the Times of the United Kingdom in an article published Tuesday. “They talk about it, but I think people would find it too scandalous. Sometimes you just have to respect tradition.

The tradition has certainly held strong amid the years-long discourse surrounding a female Bond, as even franchise producer Barbara Broccoli – who has been in charge of the coveted role since 1995 – revealed during Craig’s tenure that it didn’t would “probably” never happen.

“He was written as a man and I think he will probably stay as a man,” Broccoli told the Guardian in 2018. “And that’s fine. We don’t need to transform Let’s just create more female characters and tailor the story to those female characters.

Craig took exactly the same view ahead of his latest Bond outing, ‘No Time to Die,’ and told Radio Times magazine that there should simply be “better roles for women and actors of color.” when asked if he would support “larger roles for women and actors of color.” diverse actor” to replace him.

The franchise seemed to dip its toes into both territories when rumors emerged in 2019 that Lashana Lynch was going to take the reins, only for her character in “No Time to Die” to be revealed as just another agent coded 007 – but not quite. Bind.

Supporter campaigns in favor of Idris Elba, meanwhile, were ruined by racist reactions.

While former Bond star Pierce Brosnan previously supported the idea of ​​a female 007, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 that “we’ve seen guys do it for the last 40 years,” he recently is pushing for “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy to take the role.

Arterton said Tuesday that she did not regret her past as a Bond girl – although she previously criticized “Quantum” for making her character so open to Bond’s sexual advances – but was still “perplexed” about the how often it came up even though she was only in it filming “for five minutes”.

In 2020, the actor revealed the reason she took the job.

“I was poor as a church mouse and I was happy to be able to work and earn a living,” Arterton told The Sun. “I still get flak for taking ‘Quantum of Solace,’ but I was 21, I had student loans and you know, it was a James Bond movie.”