Naomie Harris says the times of the ”previous Bond” are numbered due to Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Phoebe – who wrote the script of the hit murderer thriller TV collection ‘Killing Eve’ and wrote and starred in BBC comedy-drama ‘Fleabag’ – has joined the writing group for Bond 25, which might be Daniel Craig’s fifth and remaining outing as 007.
Harris – who performs Miss Moneypenny within the franchise – revealed that the author and actress will ”ramp up the feminine perspective” on the yet-to-be-titled movie and hailed the star as a ”sturdy lady” with a ”comedic contact”.
Speaking to Stuart McGurk on the GQ Heroes summit on Thursday (09.05.19) the 42-year-old star mentioned: ”She’s a robust lady with a terrific comedic contact so she’s going to ramp up the feminine perspective on Bond 25. The Bond of previous, his days are numbered.”
The ‘Moonlight’ actress additionally defined that one of many causes James Bond is such a profitable franchise is that it toes the road between Ian Fleming’s unique novels and ”being progressive with the instances.”
She added: ”I feel it at all times must be its personal factor since you at all times must symbolize the Bond Ian Fleming wrote and it was a really explicit time.
”But that is going to be the 25th Bond, that is the longest working franchise of all time and that is for a really explicit purpose. The purpose is that it manages to maintain the essence of what Ian Fleming wrote but it surely’s additionally always adapting and altering with the instances.
”To maintain folks that is the extremely troublesome line you must stroll between preserving the diehard Bond followers who need [a] conventional Bond and in addition being progressive with the instances.”
