Helen Mirren Says James Bond ‘Doesn’t Work’ As A Woman

“It just doesn’t work,” Mirren said during a sit-down with her “Thursday Murder Club” co-star Pierce Brosnan, a former 007.

“James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else,” she argued.

Revealing how Bond’s trademark chauvinism never appealed to her, she said, “The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing. It really wasn’t. I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond.”

“The whole concept of James Bond is drenched and born out of profound sexism,” she went on, telling the paper that there were plenty of “real stories about extraordinary women” who’ve worked in British intelligence that would make better material.

Amazon MGM Studios is currently cooking up its first Bond film, and while it has tapped “Dune” auteur Denis Villeneuve to direct and “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight to write, the studio has yet to announce its star.