James Bond: Piers Morgan SLAMS Jane Seymour’s calls for female 007 after Daniel Craig
It’s become something of a big debate as Daniel Craig gears up to play James Bond one last time in next year’s No Time To Die. Should the incumbent 007 be replaced by a woman?
Aside from the rumours that Lashana Lynch’s Nomi has taken on the 007 codename in No Time To Die, gender-swapping the actual character of James Bond is now something that Live and Let Die star Jane Seymour backs.
Speaking with The Mirror, the 68-year-old said: “More power to the women… why not? It’s time.
“[Bond producer] Barbara Broccoli has steered this ship quite brilliantly, in my opinion.
“I remember, when I did Live And Let Die, Roger Moore joined after Sean Connery and everyone said that can never happen..”
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James Bond: Piers Morgan SLAMS Daniel Craig’s support for female 007
But now Piers Morgan has lashed out at Seymour today on Good Morning Britain for her comments.
The journalist said: “Jane Seymour, famous Bond girl, wants a female Bond. We’ve had this debate before…
“I love Jane Seymour, absolutely think she’s wonderful, but this is so wrong.
“We don’t need a female James Bond, because his name is James Bond.”
Morgan continued: “If you want to have your own spy hero, go and create one. Write one.
“Go and write one yourself. Jane Seymour can go and write one.”
However, both Susanna Reid and Charlotte Hawkins pointed out to the 54-year-old that a woman now plays Doctor Who.
But he retorted: “Because Doctor Who, as the name suggests, could be anything. Doctor who?”
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Morgan added: “James Bond is a male name. Name me one other woman called James.
“There aren’t any. There are no women called James.”
Reid responded: “It’s not the name that’s important though, it’s the role, 007.”
To which her co-host asserted: “Make it 004 and have a woman called Jeanetta, but don’t steal our James Bond.”
Morgan made similar comments in April when Craig himself backed a female Bond.
The No Time To Die star told the Mirror: “I think that everybody should be considered. Also for women and for African-Americans, there should be great parts anyway, across the board.”
But the Good Morning Britain host said: “James Bond was written as a man. James Bond should remain a man. James Bond is a towering monument of masculinity so why would anyone in the entire world, least of all women who all secretly fantasise about James Bond, now want him to become a woman?”
No Time To Die is released in UK cinemas on April 3, 2020.
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