Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 5:42:01 GMT -5
The new agent 007 is a woman and her name is Lashana Lynch.
A source from the film's production company told The Daily Mail that when M (Ralph Fiennes), the head of the secret service, calls 007 into action, the person who appears is not Bond but a new spy: the British actress Lashana Lynch .
The film that is filming France Mobile Number List in London under the direction of Cary Fukunaga is making a big difference, since it will be the first time that a woman will be a 007 agent.
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This fact comes after Disney announced that the next protagonist of the Little Mermaid will be a black actress, Halle Bailey .
The new 007 will be… an African-American woman?
Data revealed in the Spanish newspaper El País , state that until now it was known that in the plot, Bond came out of retirement when his CIA friend Felix Leiter - a character played by Jeffrey Wright at the time that Daniel Craig gives life to James Bond—was asking him for help.
The rest of the cast again stars Fiennes, Ben Whishaw (as the efficient engineer Q), Rory Kinnear (as Tunner), Naomie Harris (as Moneypenny, who is no longer a silly secretary), Léa Seydoux (as Madeleine Swann) and Christoph Waltz (as the great villain of the Bond saga, who plays Blofeld).
In this new installment of the saga, Bond will help the CIA agent save a kidnapped scientist, a mission that will be complicated when a brand new villain appears who has cutting-edge technology in his possession.
Gender change of character 007
The gender change of the character 007 is a strong step that the production company has taken; Involving a woman as the protagonist of the film will have positive consequences.
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Lashana Lynch's performance is known for her participation in the Captain Marvel event, when she represented the pilot María Rambeau.
The production team's source says that this change is likely the idea of screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge, - also the star of the Fleabag series - who said that when she became part of the project, the saga had to grow, "and The most important thing is that the film treats women correctly.
The production company wants to go beyond granting an African-American woman a "license to kill"; it is trying to stop using the term "Bond girl" and instead use that of "Bond woman."
The gender change of agent 007 is still a rumor that almost confirms the participation of the actress, however, we have to wait for this information to be official. Meanwhile, criticism has not been long in coming.
Remembering Samuel L. Jackson's statement when Captain Marvel was released , perhaps involving a woman in the role of 007 is part of a "company strategy", which, like Captain Marvel and Black Panther , is part of female empowerment in cinema.
After several delays in production, motivated by the change of director and restructuring of the script, the 25th film in the saga will hit the big screen in April 2020.