For Ana de Armas, “You don’t need a James Bond woman”

James Bond crystallizes many debates around the issues of representation, inclusiveness and of male gauze. This time it is Ana de Armas’ turn to participate.

“Stealing” a character to “feminize” him?

Used to the roles ofsuper trained agent in the largest blockbuster action, Ana de Armas stood out in particular Death can wait.

She played Paloma, a CIA agent alongside Daniel Craig. A role before which we were surprised to dream : rather than continuously assist James Bond and stay in the backgroundhe could have embody it ?

In an interview for the magazine The sun released on July 19, the actress said be against this idea, stating: “There is not no need for a James Bond woman. There shouldn’t be any need steal the character from someone else to feminize it. “

Enhance the female characters

Self James Bond shines regularly with hers sexism and its gender norms terribly boring, Ana de Armas explained that these representation choices related the protagonist’s imagination :

“The novels take us into a whole world of fantasies in which James Bond gravitates. Therefore, what I would like is female roles in 007 movies to be staged differently. We have to give them more substance it’s a true recognition. It seems more interesting to me than turning things upside down. “

In 2021 another actress of the saga had expressed such an opinion shed much more light on the power of industry these questions. Lashana Lynch, racialized interpreter of 007 stated thus in the columns of The Guardian :

“We are at a time when the industry isn’t just giving the public what it thinks the public wants. Indeed, it gives the audience what it wants to give them. The bond could be male or female. They could be white, black, Asian, mixed race. They can be young or old. At the end of the day, even though a two-year-old played Bond, everyone would flock to the cinema to see what this two-year-old is up to, No ? “

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