Though she was only in Daniel Craig’s final James Bond outing”No Time to Die” for a few minutes, actress Ana de Armas stole the show.
The “Knives Out” actress made a short appearance as MI6 agent-in-training Paloma during the film’s Cuba sequence and ended up becoming arguably the best Bond girl since Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd in what is the film’s most crowd-pleasing and old-school Bond sequence.
Recently the actress, out promoting “The Gray Man,” spoke with EW about the question of a female Bond for the next outing. It’s a topic that comes up repeatedly, with people on various sides.
de Armas comes down on the side of long-time Bond producer Barbara Broccoli which is it is not needed:
“There’s no need for a female Bond. There shouldn’t be any need to steal someone else’s character, you know, to take over. This is a novel, and it leads into this James Bond world and this fantasy of that universe where he’s at.”
Instead, de Armas calls for something else that’s more widely agreed upon – better and more substantial roles for women in the Bond universe:
“What I would like is that the female roles in the Bond films, even though Bond will continue to be a man, are brought to life in a different way. That they’re given a more substantial part and recognition. That’s what I think is more interesting than flipping things.”
Last month, Broccoli said that production for the next film is at least two years away if not longer and “nobody’s in the running” for the new bond just yet as they’re still working out what the next iteration of Bond will be.
