Should James Bond Ever Be Jane Bond?

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00:00And the Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren has said the iconic spy, James Bond, should be played by a man,

00:08even though she says she's such a feminist.

00:11Speaking in an interview, she said, you can't have a woman. It just doesn't work.

00:16James Bond has to be James Bond. Otherwise, it becomes something else.

00:20Her comments come as Amazon MGM Studios is planning to produce a so-called fresh take on the franchise.

00:29Wow, Dr. Ellie, should we have Jane Bond?

00:34Maybe as a completely different character in a different series, that would be lovely.

00:39But James Bond is James Bond. It's that image, it's that character, it's that British character, to be specific.

00:45It doesn't work to have another James Bond, like a French James Bond or a Chinese James Bond or a black James Bond or a woman James Bond.

00:53For me, all of these are not a James Bond because it's a specific character, a specific set.

00:58I would love to see a woman action, like we've seen in many places.

01:02It could be connected to James Bond, like the Marvel heroes are connected to each other or so.

01:06Why not introduce it in the next series and then have her own movies and so on?

01:11But don't take over a character. Don't destroy that character because this is the money bringer eventually.

01:17This is what the people love. This is what the people follow.

01:19And if they have bought it for so much money and they're going to change it now,

01:23I don't think it's going to pay back all the money that they have invested into creating a new series of James Bond.