Hollywood star Jenna Ortega said she thinks women have made great strides in Hollywood, but said she has no interest in seeing a “Jamie Bond.”
During an interview with MTV about her upcoming movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the 21-year-old actress said she doesn’t think women should simply be swapped into movie roles previously given to men and said that actresses should have their own franchises.
“I love that there’s a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that’s so special, but we should have our own,” Ortega told the reporter. “I don’t like it when it’s like a spinoff — I don’t want to see, like, ‘Jamie Bond.’ You know? I want to see another bada**.”
The comments echoed that of “James Bond” producer Barbara Broccoli, who previously said that she thought the next Bond should definitely be a male, and not a woman, as some at the time had suggested, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
“I think [the next James Bond] will be a man because I don’t think a woman should play James Bond,” Broccoli said in 2021. “I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men’s roles.”
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“I don’t think there are enough great roles for women, and it’s very important to me that we make movies for women about women,” she added. “He should be British, so British can be any [ethnicity or race].”
“Knives Out” star and former “Bond girl “Ana de Armas made headlines when she also said there’s no reason for there to be a “female Bond” just in order to flip things around, as Hollywood continues to do.
During an interview in 2022 with The Sun, the then 34-year-old actress was asked about reports that the next installment in the James Bond franchise could consist of a “non-binary” Bond, meaning a person who doesn’t consider themselves either male or female.
“There’s no need for a female Bond,” the “Knives Out” star shared. “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.”
“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,” de Armas continued. “That they’re given a more substantial part and recognition. That’s what I think is more interesting than flipping things.”
