Meet the #MeToo generation, James
JAMES BOND has always been a change-resistant figment of another era.
When Judi Dench’s M first meets Pierce Brosnan’s suave super-spy in GoldenEye, she lambasts him as a ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur; a relic of the Cold War’.
So it was only a matter of time before #MeToo caught up with 007.
Anyone wondering which of his leading ladies Bond will be leaving shaken and stirred should be aware that film bosses have apparently employed an intimacy coach to make sure the actors feel comfortable during sex scenes.
Phoebe Waller- Bridge has said she is keen to focus on the female characters
with her script adjustments, and even the iconic Bond Girl leading lady seems to be in danger.
At the film’s launch in April, Barbara Broccoli said that, while some actresses still like to be called Bond Girls, ‘we refer to them as Bond women’.
She went on: ‘I think, as we get older, they like the Bond Girl moniker. I think when they’re young, they don’t like it so much.’ She refused to name names.
At the film’s launch, the politically correct PR machine went to painful lengths to avoid describing the female stars as Bond Girls, with legendary Dr No star Ursula Andress — now 83 — referred to as a ‘Bond actress’.