Posted on 05/09/2023 6:35:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tom Hanks has made the suggestion that Idris Elba should be selected to play the next iteration of James Bond. Elba has been linked to the famous Ian Fleming character for some time now but has kept quiet on the matter. His new film, Luther: The Fallen Sun, sees his character order a martini, which some fans viewed as something of a Bond audition.
In response to the martini scene, Elba told the Radio Times: “My Bond audition? Oh my God, no! I’ve been saying for years, no… The martini line is a bit cheeky, isn’t it?”
Meanwhile, Hanks backed him for Bond, telling the BBC: “Understand this, James Bond has a licence to kill. I would issue that licence to Idris Elba just based on the work that I’ve seen him do.”
Hanks has also opened up on his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, saying: “I have pulled every single one of those moments of behaviour myself on a set… Not everybody is at their best every single day on a motion picture set…”
He added: “I’ve had tough days trying to be a professional when my life has been falling apart in more ways than one, and the requirement for me that day is to be funny, charming and loving – and it’s the last way I feel.”
Why?
What’s next?
How about billy Bob Thornton as a laconic Shaka Zulu?
Moore played Bond more tongue in cheek
They’ve all been decent
I did like Craig’s character when M was killed
The emotion seemed real
He loved her in a pure love way and in that coke grey barren setting
I may watch that again
Dench nailed M
She loved him too
And she was a woke pick but she had the chops and lack of fembot stridency to pull it off
Idiris not such a big fan of
Yeah
That’s how I’m thinking
”And you are?”
”Bond. James, pronouns she/her, Bond.”
They’re relegated by Hollywood whites to copies.
Blacks do have their own characters.
Hollywood's goal is to deny whites their characters.
Go woke, go broke.
After Daniel Craig, anybody new will be a let down.
Let the franchise go without cheapening it.
Why, they can’t have a non metrosexusl Bond?
Today’s Bond should be a flaming queer and illegal migrant just to make him relevant.
Being a pedophile would give it even more realism.
Idris would be the only reason I watch a Bond movie.
Still grieving the loss of my Dark Tower/Gunslinger poster to water damage.
:’(
Wouldn’t bother me; he’s a good actor, as long as it’s not just a diversity hire, which I hope it wouldn’t be.g
“Hanks is just virtue signaling …”
Bingo.
Tom Hardy
The Wiz!
Well if a real historical Queen of England can be black ...
Bond, in a dozen or so movies, is a white man.
Why not create an entirely new secret agent man that was black, and have a series of movies with him as star.
No, you cannot legitimately change Bond’s race. Because the character has a specific identity and characteristics. Characterization is an important part of fiction. I wouldn’t want a Bond that was suddenly 5 feet tall or autistic or bespectacled either. That’s not Bond. Bond is an English gentleman spy of the old school, not an African immigrant.
You’re a tiresomely woke type. How unoriginal. You probably would like to see Sherlock Holmes as a Chinese Fu-manchu type and feel proud of how “open-minded” you are.
What next, Bond gives up martinis for Bud Light?
I like Idris Elba but he’s not James Bond. I think they should do a casting call and look for a new face among the young unknown British actors.
A period piece like Bridgerton? Who knew that every other member of the entire royal family was a person of color?
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