Is this when Bond advances into the #MeToo era? Looking at the characterisation of some of the Bond women to date, it's not a moment too soon:
DR NO: HONEY RYDER
The bikini-clad, titillating icon of male sexual fantasy who killed the man who raped her with a Black Widow spider.
Ryder: It took him a whole week to die … Did I do wrong?
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: TATIANA ROMANOVA
Eastern bloc seductress who's first introduced wearing only black stockings and a ribbon around her neck.
Romanova: I think my mouth is too big.
Bond: No, it's the right size … for me, that is.
GOLDFINGER: PUSSY GALORE
She gives Bond a run for his money, but in the end, the name says it all.
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Female 007 set to shake up 'sexist' Bond in new spy flick
A female 007 who calls out James Bond for his misogynist mentality could feature in the next instalment of hit movie franchise, if plot leaks are to be believed
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We may be getting a female 007. The Daily Mail reported that Lashana Lynch of Captain Marvel fame will take over the codename in the 25th Bond film, due out next year.
Her character, Nomi, has reportedly been written to address Bond's historical misogyny and racism.
According to plot leaks in the press, Bond begins the film in retirement and is called back to active duty when a crisis hits. At M16, he meets the new 007 played by Lynch.
Writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, considered a brilliant feminist voice since her series Fleabag and Killing Eve, was brought in to punch up the Bond 25 script. Leaks suggest it was Waller-Bridge's idea to introduce Lynch as the new 007 and that the script will explicitly call out Bond for his misogynist mentality.
'Fleabag' writer lets viewers in on the secrets of the female sexual mind
Is this when Bond advances into the #MeToo era? Looking at the characterisation of some of the Bond women to date, it's not a moment too soon:
DR NO: HONEY RYDER
The bikini-clad, titillating icon of male sexual fantasy who killed the man who raped her with a Black Widow spider.
Ryder: It took him a whole week to die … Did I do wrong?
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: TATIANA ROMANOVA
Eastern bloc seductress who's first introduced wearing only black stockings and a ribbon around her neck.
Romanova: I think my mouth is too big.
Bond: No, it's the right size … for me, that is.
GOLDFINGER: PUSSY GALORE
She gives Bond a run for his money, but in the end, the name says it all.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: AKI
Japanese secret agent who dies saving Bond from assassination after they've had sex.
Aki: I think I will enjoy very much serving under you.
MOONRAKER: HOLLY GOODHEAD
Bond seduces her in space.
Goodhead: Take me 'round the world one more time.
Bond: Why not?
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GOLDENEYE: XENIA ONATOPP
Russian nympho who is excited by killing men.
Onatopp: You don't need the gun, commander.
Bond: Well, that depends on your definition of safe sex.
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: DR CHRISTMAS JONES
A vacuous nuclear physicist in a film full of holiday puns.
Bond: I was wrong about you.
Jones: Yeah, how so?
Bond: I thought Christmas only comesonce a year.
SKYFALL: SÉVÉRINE
Saved from the Macau sex trade but gets shot in the head in front of Bond while balancing a shot glass on her head.
Bond: What a waste of good scotch.
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