His appearance as chica Bond in Quantum of Solacethe second film of Daniel Craig as 007, it was fleeting, but it decisively helped his then nascent career take off. Gemma Artertonwho played Agent Fields, Strawberry Fields, was then, in 2008, 22 years old. Now, 38 and consolidated in films and television series, the British actress admits that she is still surprised by the impact, during all this time, of her brief participation in the James Bond film saga.
«I don’t regret having made a Bond film, but I am surprised that it has followed me everywhere. I was only in the film for five minutes,” he says. Gemma Arterton in an interview in The Times.
With the James Bond saga stopped, not set aside, since Daniel Craig’s goodbye in 007: No time to diereleased in 2021, the rumors and debate about who will be the new 007 –Aaron Taylor-Johnson seems to be the chosen one, but without official confirmation– have been constant.
Beyond the logical and traditional pools with names of actors to embody James Bond every time the character is free (it happened previously, especially through the development of the Internet, with the Daniel Craig and before, in turn, with Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore y Sean Conneryin addition to George Lazenby), in these years, following 007: No time to diea new variable has been introduced into the debate: whether the character created by Ian Fleming should now be played by a man or a woman.
Gemma Arterton It is clear: tradition must be respected. “They talk about it, but I think people would consider it too scandalous. Sometimes you just have to respect tradition. “”Wouldn’t a female James Bond be like having Mary Poppins played by a man?», asks the British actress from films like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and television series such as Funny Woman.
Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who made the decision to choose the new 007, rule out that the next James Bond will be a woman. The producer, daughter of the legendary producer of the saga Albert R. Broccoli, revealed in a recent interview the requirements that Daniel Craig’s successor must meet: male, British and over 30 years old. And not necessarily white.
