You’re going to cry at next Bond f ilm, Lea tells 007 fans

ONE OF the stars of the new Bond movie No Time To Die has warned audiences they must bring their hankies when the film opens later this year.

Lea Seydoux, who returns as Bond’s love interest Madeleine Swann in the new movie, warns: ‘There’s a lot of emotion in this Bond. It’s very moving.’

The French actress, who was last seen in 2015’s Spectre walking away hand-in-hand with Daniel Craig, added: ‘I bet you’re going to cry. When I watched it, I cried, which is weird because I am in it.’

The comments will renew speculation that No Time To Die, the 25th film in the Bond series, may feature the death of a significant character. It was reported last year that Danny Boyle, the movie’s original director, had considered killing off Bond himself in the final scenes.

Boyle’s replacement, Cary Joji Fukunaga, says the film – which begins with 007 in retirement in

Jamaica – will tie up loose ends. ‘For me as a writer and a director, it was essential to rediscover Bond,’ said Fukunaga.

‘After five years of retirement, who has he become?

‘The people close to Bond – those he considers to be family – are at great risk and now there is someone new out there, more dangerous than anyone he has ever previously encountered. No Time To Die is a culmination of all that Bond has become, it’s all that he’s seen, all the trauma and the loss.’

Meanwhile, Seydoux, 34, insists her character, the psychiatrist Swann, is no pliant Bond girl.

‘She’s not a character written to please men,’ she said. ‘She’s not objectified. She doesn’t define herself through her sexuality. She’s smart. She’s independent and I think she has a real depth.’