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Why not just give it to any good actor regardless of their race? IMO Naomi Harris was perfectly cast as she has the right flirtatious vibe, and has good charisma with Craig. That’s all you need from Moneypenny. There’s no sense in only limiting it to white women when others could fit the part just fine.
I never could understand the smoking part? I am non smoker still think bond looks really cool while smoking
I like Naomie as MP she fits perfectly for me
This means nothing.
Because race-baiting and pandering is bad for everyone. Tokenizing a certain race is belittling to them and takes away roles meant to be played by members of the original race of the character. Again, why do it all? If the character is written a certain way there is no reason to change accept to pander to a specific audience and to virtue signal.
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Oh come on, it's obvious. The fact that they had less things to do back in the days doesn't mean they shouldn't have more now in this new Bond era.
Why should they get more screen time? For the sake of it? Cause the Avengers is a team? Cause the X Men are a team? Cause Ethan Hunt has a team? It just comes off as cliche and it would be change for the sake of change. It reminds me more of the Scooby crew solving mysteries than a Bond movie.
I like Fiennes as M. I like Harris as Moneypenny. I even like Wishaw as Q. Doesn't mean I need them in constant contact with Bond for 2 hours.
I completely agree.
That’s not a terribly convincing argument. For example Jeffrey Wright got the part of Felix because Craig recommended him due to having worked with him on another project, which can be said of a lot of other cast members like Ben Whishaw and Ana de Armas.
Casting people of color isn’t always down to tokenism/PC.
Funnily Tarantino said if he did CR he would have cast Samuel L Jackson as Felix, which I could see work as Jackson has more of a jovial vibe like the Felix in the novels.
Instead Jackson later went onto play Nick Fury, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
In addition, while I would like to think that Bond is above the franchise “fatigue” that seems to exist at the moment, it must be acknowledged that 58 years is a long time, and some younger viewers may see Bond as: ”….oh my father and grandfather were into that.
I'll hope for the best, but I see a global take in the range of SP.
Jackson is too big a star to play Felix,It would have taken the focus off of Craig as Bond.
I don't think it would have worked at all.
No, not Craig, Brosnan. Tarantino would have done CR with Brosnan. Funnily enough, I always thought he would choose Michael Madsen for Felix.
Aaah I see,yes,Brosnan would make more sense,apologies matey.
Such a ridiculous statement.DC came back for only one reason...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Not very confidant in the film at all to be honest.Its taken them nearly five years to get another movie together,and even then they have no solid official title,directors fired and hired at a very late stage,a script thats being rewritten by a trendy feminist writer to please the #Metoo crazies ( should have been called #Weallknew ),Craig getting injured,a dangerous explosion on set that could have killed people because proper safety precautions were not taken.
If thats not bad enough,you have them bringing back BLOWfeld,which really should have just been ignored given how badly that was received by fans last time.
Its amazing to think that in between the last Bond film,and the next Bond film,a complete Star Wars trilogy will have come and gone as well as several spin offs.
Bottom line after all this time,they should have retired Craig from the role ( especially after slashmywristsgate ) and started fresh.
Well, it seems like you've had your mind made up for a while now. Sorry to hear that.
I was going to say the same thing, but I also sense some bitterness and anger there as well