Former Bond Girl Gemma Arterton Says Female 007 Would Be ‘Too Outrageous’: ‘Sometimes You Just Have to Respect the Tradition’

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/gemma-arterton-james-bond-female-outrageous-1236245642/

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  2. There’s nothing wrong with traditional. If breaking the mold was all anything was about, which a lot of things are, well you just get a lot of trash. Like a lot of the content that’s out there.

    Don’t lose your edge trying to be edgy.

  3. I think Gemma needs that her stupid face. Keep telling yourself you’re not good enough and indeed, you won’t be good enough

  4. The main problem here is that the 007 designation is associated with a particular character, James Bond. After bond retires, that designation could be given to a female agent. But you also could do a movie about 005 or 004 which would avoid confusion and still allow you to tell the story of a 00 agent.

    Ultimately it just doesn’t seem to be necessary. It also seems like nobody’s actually saying they want to do it. 

  6. It’s like with the uncanny valley, where I can accept a photorealistic animal or object, but human faces just aren’t there yet:

    I can buy dragons and wizards and aliens, but a 5 ft nothing woman taking out a regular sized man feels too ridiculous.

  7. No. Respecting tradition is why homosexuals are being thrown off of buildings

  8. Why do they have to hijack EVERY franchise & replace the main characters gender to a woman??
    I kinda hope they do it, so I can watch the fan backlash & subsequent box office failure!!

  9. I agree. Have a Ballerina like spin off that the John Wick universe is having. The Bond franchise just had its most successful and rewarding era under Barbara Broccoli. She could absolutely do a female perspective suave spy franchise. Give Idris his own spin off as well. James Bond is dead even in the main universe. Sure the 007 designations may live on but the actual character for decades is dead.

  10. A female James Bond is ridiculous. The character’s always been male.

    A *female 007* I can get behind.

  13. There already has been a female 007. Lashana Lynch played an agent named Nomi who took the 007 designation after Bond retired in No Time To Die.

  14. Would almost be worth it to see the meltdown from the quartering and critical drinker types

  16. Why can’t the “female Bond” be an agent with her own set of skills, achievements and qualifications under her own agent ID? Why should James Bond himself be meddled with?

  17. But Hollywood will do it. They already ruined Oceans & Ghost Busters

    How about this, and hear me out….create an actual compelling original female lead story and film it instead of trying to rewrite the past.

    Part of it is laziness and greed, desperate to revitalize a brand but being completely out of touch with reality.

  18. After the last one I thought they should make a spin off movie or series with Ana De Armas and Lashana Lynch and let Bond rest for a while but keep the universe alive.

    They were high points of No Time To Die.

    Then come back in ten years or so with a Bond reboot.

    Too late, now.

    Or is it??

  19. We already have female bond in Melissa McCarthy form, called Spy and Jason Statham still demand his Face/Off machine 

  20. I don’t understand this dilemma, can’t you just make another character who is also a spy?

  21. I disagree. The best Ocean was Ocean’s 8. Super badass ladies.

  22. This is such a ridiculous hill to die on.
    James Bond is a man.

    My mother, sister, wife, and daughter are all progressive, and I support them. But a female Bond is just stupid.

  23. It’s not outrageous, it’s just dumb. Bond is Bond. He’s supposed to be a little camp, suave, aggressively British, borderline alcoholic, have a good looking lady or two with a silly name in the cast, etc. The nostalgia is a big part of the draw.

    I think the baffling thing with things like this is I just don’t understand why. By messing with the formula, you’re not making a Bond movie anymore, you’re making a generic spy movie. And who is it for? You’ll annoy the fans of Bond and you’re not going to suddenly get a bunch of non-Bond fans to show up just because you made the main character a woman. Why can’t we have a good spy movie with a female lead and also Bond? They’re not mutually exclusive. And I don’t buy the ‘male audiences don’t like female leads’. Rogue One and Fallout, for example, are super well-regarded. But they had good characters and writing, not just shoehorning in a gender swap to seem modern.

  24. Just make a woman 006 or 008, you could do a woman bond movie that way. Have a cameo of the 007 where she one-ups him.

  25. We have a female James Bond in a way.

    Sydney Bristow.

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