{"id":93272,"date":"2025-08-19T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93272\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:14:06","slug":"helen-mirren-says-you-cant-have-a-woman-as-james-bond-it-just-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93272\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren Says “You Can’t Have A Woman” As James Bond: “It Just Doesn’t Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHelen Mirren<\/a> supports women, but she doesn\u2019t think a woman should portray James Bond<\/a> as the search for the next 007 agent is underway.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new interview while promoting Thursday Murder Club, in which she co-stars alongside former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, Mirren said a woman as James Bond wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy,\u201d Mirren told Saga<\/a> magazine. \u201cYou can\u2019t have a woman. It just doesn\u2019t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline recently reported that Steven Knight would pen the script<\/a> for the next James Bond film at Amazon MGM Studios, which Denis Villeneuve will direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMirren\u2019s Thursday Murder Club co-star, Brosnan, also weighed in on the 007 film, telling the same publication, \u201cI wish them well. I\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<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI adore the world of James Bond. It\u2019s been very good to me. It\u2019s the gift that keeps giving,\u201d Brosnan continued. \u201cAnd I\u2019m just a member of the audience now, sitting back, saying: \u2018Show us what you\u2019re going to do.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMirren had previously weighed in on the concept of James Bond, saying in an interview with The London Standard<\/a> that the character \u201cis drenched and born out of profound sexism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWomen have always been a major and incredibly important part of the Secret Service, they always have been. And very brave,\u201d she added. \u201cIf you hear about what women did in the French Resistance, they\u2019re amazingly, unbelievably courageous. So I would tell real stories about extraordinary women who\u2019ve worked in that world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren supports women, but she doesn\u2019t think a woman should portray James Bond as the search for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,12668,37117,206],"class_list":["post-93272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-helen-mirren","tag-james-bond","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}