Across the Atlantic at the Deauville American Film Festival in France, former 007 Pierce Brosnan wholeheartedly endorsed the idea of a woman playing Bond to the Hollywood Reporter.
“I think we’ve watched the guys do it for the last 40 years, get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there,” said Brosnan, who played the super spy in four films: “The World Is Not Enough,” “Tomorrow Never Dies,” “GoldenEye,” and “Die Another Day.” “I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting.”
However, Brosnan conceded that a female James Bond was unlikely, given executive producer Barbara Broccoli’s insistence that “Bond is male.”
“He’s a male character. He was written as a male, and I think he’ll probably stay as a male,” Broccoli told the Guardian in October. “And that’s fine. We don’t have to turn male characters into women. Let’s just create more female characters and make the story fit those female characters.”