‘Ballerina’ Star Ana de Armas Calls for More Original Female Action Films; Says Bond Should ‘Let James Be James’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-bond-sexism-ana-de-armas-ballerina-1236358176/

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  1. >“Why don’t we have more movies about Paloma? Let James be James and John Wick be John Wick. We’ll do our thing,” de Armas said during an appearance at The John Wick Experience, a multi-room immersive pop-up, where fans can check into the notorious Continental Hotel featured in the Keanu Reeves films. “When you get a woman fighting, you’ll be surprised the things she can pull off.”

    >“I’m sure that Barbara Broccoli and Robert Wilson made the best decision for James Bond. Whatever happens, that can go anywhere [creatively],” she said of future narratives from the world of Ian Fleming’s spy novels.

  2. I’m all for this and agree but let’s just not have her star another, or Gal Gadot.. those last two straight to Netflix movies were a poor representation of badass women. Immediately Uma Thurman in Kill Bill comes to mind…

  3. This reminds me of the point of the Episode of always sunny; “the gang beats Boggs, Lady reboot”

    >I don’t get it. You already did this. Shouldn’t we do our own thing? Why are we copying the guys?” “That’s the whole point. It’s the exact same thing, but with women. So it’s a new idea.”

    Ana de Armas is right, the problem is that everything is viewed through a franchise lens. Just make something new! Stop making old IPs with random genders or races and just make new ones

  4. “From the world of John Wick..” I agree but does she not realize that her movie isnt exactly a completely original franchise? They even have John Wick show up based on the trailers…

  5. I want a science fiction Bond film called Atomic Bond.

  6. We can’t have original stories anymore. Movie studios decided to stop making actors into big stars because it gave them more power and more ability to exploit the people actually making movies; but as a result, they can’t use the cast’s star power to put butts in seats. They have to use familiar franchises to do that because they killed the concept of the Movie Star.

  7. I would like another film like ‘atomic blonde’

  9. Faithful adaptation of the Tamora Pierce Tortall universe PLEASE.

  12. I wouldn’t mind if they toned Bond down a little bit.

  13. Exactly. Star Wars, Alien, Kill bill, etc are all originals and more importantly had GOOD writers.

    Disney and other studios half ass it when it comes to giving a female character and actual good script instead of banking on their sex.

  14. Off the top of my head:

    Aliens (Ripley)

    The terminator (Cameron does female protagonists well)

    Hunger games (Katniss)

    Scarlett Johannsen has a solid resume

    Atomic blonde

    Divergent

    Salt

    Lucy

    The cleaner

    The killer

    There’s been some traction over the decades

    Edit: additional thoughts

    Daisy Ridley and Star Wars

    Right now there’s a semi changing of the guard, and a vacuum until a new female action star steps in.

  15. My issue is that when they do make a female centric action film, it’s just generic slop. Look at Halle Berry, J-Lo, Alba or anyone else’s films that Netflix produces. None are worth a shit. They’re all lazily made. Atomic Blonde is probably the only one that had great action sequences. Why can’t a female have an Extraction level film?

    I understand that the effort and training involved is not for everyone, but Halle Berry showed she was willing to train extensively for John Wick 3. So why was the action in The Union so bad? It’s not just the actors it’s clearly these productions just either don’t understand how to film a great action sequence, or they just don’t care to try it.

    There’s got to be something going on behind the scenes. Logic says to replicate what you’re seeing Stahelski, Leitch, Hargrave, Evans, or Timo do. It’s 2025. The Raid released in 2011. How that just didn’t become the standard right then is mind blowing. These films weren’t super high budgeted. The Raid was made for 1.1m. John Wick 1 was 30m. Raid 2 was 4m, the Night Comes for us was a little higher. Atomic Blonde was 30m. I’m certain these Netflix turds are way higher than 30m.

  16. What about James Bond played by Brosnan who’s philandering ways led him to have a daughter who just happens to have a penchant for scotch, Rugers and kicking ass.

  17. Glad to see common sense and actual equality starting to come through… the mentally that preceded this did more harm than good.

  19. Weird way to promote a literal female John Wick movie…

  20. I’ll stick with the original, no need for a white people version, thx

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