Film star Ana de Armas argued the leisure trade ought to create new characters relatively than gender-swap established characters like James Bond or John Wick.
In recent times, the leisure trade has been in fixed battle over altering the race, gender, and different elements of basic characters to cater to trendy cultural norms. Some have voiced their issues that Amazon MGM Studios gaining artistic management of the James Bond franchise will transform the character, significantly after studio executives Courtenay Valenti and Sue Kroll reportedly declared they’d carry forth a “recent, unique new chapter” to the collection.
Ana de Armas, who is understood for being in fashionable movies like “Knives Out,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and James Bond’s “No Time to Die,” spoke about the way forward for the James Bond franchise, arguing the character shouldn’t be modified.
De Armas had been attending CinemaCon, the annual conference for movie show house owners in Las Vegas, selling her upcoming movie, “Ballerina,” a by-product of the “John Wick” collection. Whereas there, she spoke to Selection Journal in regards to the discourse round ladies in James Bond motion pictures.
Film star Ana de Armas argued that the leisure trade ought to concentrate on creating new characters relatively than altering basic ones. (Sebastian Reuter/Getty Photos for Netflix)
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“Why don’t we’ve extra motion pictures about Paloma?” she requested of her character in “No Time to Die” whereas talking on the occasion. “Let James be James and John Wick be John Wick. We’ll do our factor. Whenever you get a girl preventing, you’ll be stunned the issues she will be able to pull off.”
Whereas some are involved about the way forward for the James Bond franchise, De Armas nonetheless informed Selection that she is assured about its future.
“I’m positive that Barbara Broccoli and Robert Wilson made the perfect resolution for James Bond,” de Armas mentioned of the James Bond collection’ artistic management being handed over to Amazon MGM Studios. “No matter occurs, that may go anyplace [creatively].”
Selection famous that de Armas has been addressing latest discourse stirred up by actress Helen Mirren, who not too long ago mentioned that she is not excited by a feminine James Bond as a result of she “by no means favored” the character, whom she says was “born out of profound sexism.”
Helen Mirren speaks onstage on the thirty seventh Annual American Cinematheque Awards Honoring Helen Mirren held at The Beverly Hilton on February 15, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Picture by Michael Buckner/Selection)
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“The entire collection of James Bond, it was not my factor. It actually wasn’t,” Mirren informed The Normal after being requested about Amazon MGM Studios gaining artistic management of the British spy movie franchise. “I by no means favored James Bond. I by no means favored the best way ladies had been in James Bond.”
Selection recalled that, if something, de Armas’ involvement confirmed the collection had already made a shift in “No Time to Die,” the place “her character Paloma was praised for breaking with Bond Woman custom. The character not solely bought the film’s greatest laughs, she held her personal in gun and hand fight alongside Daniel Craig, saving his Tom Ford-suited a– of their scenes collectively.”
Ana de Armas on the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2025 Present held at Park Güell on Could 23, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. (Picture by Aitor Rosas Sune/WWD by way of Getty Photos) (Picture by Aitor Rosas Sune/WWD by way of Getty Photos)
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Fox Information’ Kristine Parks and Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
