{"id":75391,"date":"2025-08-18T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:14:11","slug":"james-bond-actor-pierce-brosnan-backtracks-on-claim-007-should-be-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75391\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan backtracks on claim 007 should be a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pierce Brosnan<\/a> has insisted that the new James Bond<\/a> must be played by a male lead after previously suggesting that the spy should be portrayed by a woman<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In 2019, former 007 star Brosnan told The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>that it was time to \u201cput a woman up there\u201d, adding: \u201cIt would be exhilarating.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the Irishman, who appeared in four Bond films, has gone back on his opinion and revealed that he is looking forward to a man bringing \u201cnew life\u201d to the role after Daniel Craig quit the franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I think it has to be a man,\u201d the 72-year-old told Saga magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited to see the next man come on the stage and to see a whole new exuberance and life for this character,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n

The actor was supported in his new opinion<\/a> by Dame Helen Mirren<\/a>, his co-star in the forthcoming adaptation of Richard Osman\u2019s best-selling book<\/a>, The Thursday Murder Club. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo many women have worked in that world,\u201d she said. \u201cShe’s a manifestation of a reality, that’s for sure. Is she a better portrayal of it than in the world of 007? More realistic. But not so much fun as Bond!\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor, who previously accused the films of sexism, <\/a>continued: \u201cI’m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy. You can\u2019t have a woman. It just doesn’t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PiercePierce Brosnan as James Bond in ‘Die Another Day’ (United Artists)<\/p>\n

Brosnan was the face of the franchise, based on the books by Ian Fleming, in the 1990s and into the 2000s. He starred as the secret agent in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). <\/p>\n

\u201cI adore the world of James Bond. It\u2019s been very good to me,\u201d he added, calling the film series \u201cthe gift that keeps giving\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a member of the audience now, sitting back, saying: \u2018Show us what you\u2019re going to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Speculation has swirled around who will replace<\/a> Daniel Craig<\/a> in the franchise, which has been taken over by Amazon-MGM. <\/p>\n

Dune director Denis Villeneuve will make<\/a> the new movies. Bullet Train actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson<\/a> has been at the centre of speculation with Masters of the Air actor Callum Turner emerging as a recent favourite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-75391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}