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Dame Helen Mirren has said that the next James Bond \u201chas to be a guy\u201d.<\/p>\n
It comes after Amazon MGM Studios\u00a0revealed last month that Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight would be taking charge for the next film.<\/p>\n
She told Saga Magazine: \u201cI\u2019m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy. You can\u2019t have a woman. It just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Oscar-winning actress, 80, stars alongside former 007 actor Pierce Brosnan in the new Thursday Murder Club film, a cosy crime drama adapted from the best-selling book by game show host Richard Osman.<\/p>\n
Pierce, 72, agreed with the actress about the next portrayal of Bond and told the magazine: \u201cOh, I think it has to be a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI wish (Amazon) 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI adore the world of James Bond. It\u2019s been very good to me. It\u2019s the gift that keeps giving.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m just a member of the audience now, sitting back, saying: \u2018Show us what you\u2019re going to do\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dame Helen previously told the Standard that \u201cthe whole concept of James Bond is drenched and born out of profound sexism\u201d and added: \u201cWomen have always been a major and incredibly important part of the Secret Service, they always have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the forthcoming Thursday Murder Club film, the veteran actress plays a retired spy, who is also the founder and leader of the club.<\/p>\n
Speaking about her character Elizabeth, she told Saga: \u201cSo many women have worked in that world. She\u2019s a manifestation of a reality, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recommended reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked if she is a better portrayal of a spy than Bond, she responded: \u201cMore realistic. But not so much fun as Bond!\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cThe great thing about a movie like this is that it reminds everyone, as an older person I have a brain. I have agency, energy, commitment, passion and intellect. It doesn\u2019t all stop when you\u2019re 40.\u201d<\/p>\n Brosnan said the film, directed by Harry Potter director Chris Columbus, would also appeal to anyone who likes the film series about wizardry and added: \u201cThis is like a Harry Potter retirement home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dame Helen Mirren has said that the next James Bond \u201chas to be a guy\u201d. It comes after Amazon MGM Studios\u00a0revealed last month that Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight would be taking charge for the next film. She told Saga Magazine: \u201cI\u2019m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy. You can\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1965752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[347731,315031,318038,320001],"class_list":["post-1965751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dame-helen-mirren","tag-james-bond","tag-peaky-blinders","tag-pierce-brosnan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dame-Helen-Mirren-and-Pierce-Brosnan-chime-in-on-Bond.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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