Daniel Craig doesn’t want his James Bond successor to be a woman. He wants the best choice to have a role that’s even better.
The 007 star, who is hanging up his spy gear after the upcoming “No Time To Die,” doesn’t necessarily have a choice for who takes over the iconic franchise, but he believes women deserve better.
“There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color,” the 53-year-old actor told the RadioTimes in a new interview published Tuesday. “Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”
The fantasy casting for the next Bond has landed on everyone from “Bridgerton” star Rege-Jean Page to Lashana Lynch, who recently joined the “No Time To Die” cast, even as far as “Fleabag” creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who cleaned up the script.
But the question keeps coming up: why force a woman into a man’s role when you can just write a role for her instead?
“He’s a male character. He was written as a male and I think he’ll probably stay as a male,” franchise producer Barbara Broccoli previously told The Guardian. “And that’s fine. We don’t have to turn male characters into women. Let’s just create more female characters and make the story fit those female characters.”
