Although Daniel Craig couldn’t attfinish less about the next James Bond actor, Gemma Arterton fair hopes the franchise doesn’t stray too far from its source material.
After ecombineing in Quantum of Solace (2008), the BAFTA nominee gave her opinion on the idea of a woman applying the next 007 amid ongoing calls to diversify the character created by author Ian Fleming in 1935.
“Isn’t a female James Bond enjoy Mary Poppins being applyed by a man?” she telderly The Times. “They talk about it, but I slfinisherk people would discover it too shocking. Sometimes you fair have to esteem the tradition.
“I don’t repent doing a Bond film, but I am perplexed why it has trailed me around. I was only in the film for five minutes,” inserted Arterton after portraying MI6 agent Strawberry Fields.
Arterton’s comment comes after Craig obtengagely declared last month “I don’t attfinish” who apshows the reins from him as the next 007. In insertition to Quantum of Solace, Craig also starred as Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Skydescfinish (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
Daniel Craig and Gemma Arterton in Quantum of Solace (2008). (MGM/courtesy Everett Collection)
Meanwhile, franchise creater Barbara Broccoli has “a huge decision” to create, previously noting that the next Bond will be a man, probable in his 30s and not necessarily white.
“Every time we cast a novel actor, the films change,” Broccoli telderly the Associated Press last month. “It’s the excitement of a novel Bond, a novel straightforwardion. Every one of these people who took on the role proposeed someslfinisherg novel and contrastent.”
Craig took on the role after Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore, George Lazenby, David Niven and Sean Connery.
