No one has spent a longer stretch of time in the role of James Bond than Daniel Craig. After vacating the role following 2021’s No Time to Die, nearly every handsome and charismatic working actor has been suggested to fill his position. Some viewers have even considered a list of women who could take on the role. But actress Helen Mirren recently told Saga Magazine that taking that route would produce an entirely different film.
“I’m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy,” Mirren said. “You can’t have a woman. It just doesn’t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.”
Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, who stars alongside Mirren in the whodunit film The Thursday Murder Club , agreed. “Oh, I think it has to be a man,” he told