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I definitely don't see Bond having a relationship with her. It's pretty obvious Nomi will be the strong masculine #MeToo female character of the movie, someone who doesn't need to fell into Bond's arms. Just look at her... Jessica Chastain will be proud. Beside that, another MI6 new character written to turn bad like Denbigh? I don't know...
I think Nomi/Lushana is going to be involved in some full on fight scenes. She looks like she can take care of herself in a tight corner and appears super fit. Hasn't she mentioned some fight training of some sort? I just hope she also has a bit of warmth/wit about her and isn't just a stereotypical kick ass character.
Plenty of opportunities to get things wrong but hopefully Cary with PWB's writing will keep it light and tight.
When people first heard Lupita's name being mentioned, she got similar comments saying she wasn't attractive enough, etc.
i say people shouldn't write off Lynch merely because they aren't physically attracted to her. Clealy she impressed Barbara Broccoli, Cary Fukunaga and Daniel Craig enough to get the gig. They are three very difficult individuals to please.
Personally, I think she looks cool.
What I like about Cary and PWB that they are tremendeously talented screenwriters who deal with characters very well. Their works are famous for its complex, multi-layered characters, as for example character of Idris Elba in "Beasts of No Nation" (maybe the best role in Idris' carreer), particularly all key characters in "Maniac", Eve and Villanelle from "Killing Eve" and Fleabag from "Fleabag". Characters are in good hands. And Cary is also a great master of story, plot and he is probably main author of story and plot for Bond 25.
I don't think she's physically imposing at all. Not sure how you came up with that one.
If Lashana nails the role, there is always the chance they will spin-off her character. Especially is she is the new 007.
Any day now Universal are expected to announce a streaming network, maybe a flagship show named "007" and staring Lynch would be a great prospect.
Yes, but according to different rumours Cary worked with them from September to January (Barbara said that Cary, P&W are main writers and PWB and S. Burns were added to polish th script) and basic screenplay war rewritten significantly after Cary entering project.
I only now notice she´s got eyebrows like Connery.
Both look nice, though :)
i think it's a good thing : less bimbos and more talented actresses ! no more denise richards...
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Oh, Charlie! We are all smitten by Naomie, but come on, you are better than this.
Look, Eon, I know surveillance is a fact of life. It's how you use the information that concerns me, and who is using it.
"This is what we need to do to keep the crew from playing video games when they're supposed to be doing their job."
I’m paying to see boobs and hot girls. I’m not paying to see some feminist bs. I hope they do the right thing and not have Lynch be the main Bond girl.
Might as well add Idris Elba as Bonds gay non gender interracial lover. LOL.
Agreed!
But there's no reason we can't have both.
And that's what Ana de Armas is for, obviously. Lovely, sure, but not the kind of actress that's going to get Oscars for a drama film.
The intimacy coach is hired for scenes between Craig and de Armas. It means that it's her character who has an affair with Bond, not Lynch's, and that she's the main James Bond girl.
Regarding "PC" and #metoo, and using them as curse words, thanks God we're not having the '60s version of Moneypenny anymore in our times. The character made sense in the days Lois Maxwell played her. As the secretary to the head of MI6, she was supposed to have a pristine life, and flings with agents were out of the question if she wanted to keep her job. Hence the verbal banter, because she couldn't push for more.
When they carried on with a somewhat similar take in the Brosnan days (and it wasn't Samantha Bond's fault), all this social and moral pressure had vanished, and Moneypenny became more or less the comic relief, the woman who pushed so hard that she would never get a real shot at Bond. They had nothing otherwise to do with her in Die Another Day, until the final scene, and it was the not-so-funny saucy joke from the Roger Moore days. The innuendos in her scenes with Bond was definitely one of the elements that had to go with the reboots, as something that started out as colourful characterization was by DAD just a checkmark the writers would cross.
Mendes and the screenwriters did a great job to reestablish Moneypenny in the Craig films. She's not just a minor employee who's smarter than she looks, she's a former field agent who took a desk job due to PTSD, and the trauma she shares with Bond is one of the reasons for which they don't hook up, but they still get along well and even flirt. The relationship rings much truer than in the eighties and nineties.
Re: Samantha Bond: One of her first dialogues included equalling Bond´s behaviour as sexual harrassment. In retrospect I find that as criminal as the rumor of oh so many bimbos in Bond films.
In the Connery and Lazenby days, if an important female employee had a fling or even a one night stand with an agent, it would have been enough to make her lose her job, given the imperatives of "morality" in those days in secret services. Either she could make the relationship official or she had to let it go. That was the moral background then. Of course, the writers, Connery and Maxwell built on that to turn it into some good comedy, where Moneypenny would make some double entendres to Bond, who would ignore some of them or quietly crush down her hopes, but she was still bound to some strict rules, especially given her duties. Bond could have sex with a lot of different women, and had no particular reason to consider Moneypenny, but Moneypenny was also aware deep down herself that their relationship was impossible. That's also what doesn't make the scenes too cruel to her. She (and the audience in those days) knows that she can't do it.
In the Moore days, the interplay was more of two old friends making slightly lewd jokes at each other, without much of a real sexual tension, especially as Moore and Maxwell were in very good terms.
When Maxwell left and Caroline Bliss then Samantha Bond stepped in, the moral values in society had evolved. It wouldn't have been shocking if an attractive secretary had casually dated Bond. Yet, they turned first Moneypenny into a young innocent, then into a more assertive but ultimately starry-eyed character. And I think that it made Moneypenny solely a comic relief character, who is mostly the butt of the joke. You can't have a character with the prude mentality of sixties Moneypenny two, three or four decades later.
That's why the reinvention of Moneypenny in Skyfall was very smart. There's a mutual attraction with Bond (as shown in the shaving scene), but she nearly killed him in Istanbul, even if it wasn't her fault, and they would have a hard time trying to forget it, so they prefer to be just friends. In Spectre, she can mention that she actually has a boyfriend, and it isn't shocking at all to us. (That said, she wasn't necessary for the third act of this film) The dynamics between Bond and Moneypenny are indeed quite close to the early days, the two characters just have completely new reasons to be this way.
And that's what a successful reboot does. It doesn't take things for granted, but it knows what to keep and what to change to recreate something, in that case the witty interplay between Bond and the woman who ultimately knows him the best.
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