“I’m such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy,” Mirren said. “You can’t have a woman. It just doesn’t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.” Former James ...

Helen Mirren made a case for why she doesn’t think a woman should play James Bond. “I’m such a feminist. But you can’t have a woman,” the actress, 80, said in a joint interview with her The Thursday ...

Dame Helen Mirren is all for women taking over the world — just not the world of James Bond. In a new interview with Saga magazine alongside her Thursday Murder Club costar Pierce Brosnan, the Oscar ...

As GoldenEye celebrates its 30th anniversary, the actress who played Xenia Onatopp looks back on pushing the limits of the ...

As speculation over who will play the next James Bond intensifies, Dame Helen Mirren has said that whoever ends up being cast in the role, it should be a man. In an interview with Saga Magazine, ...

Helen Mirren may play a retired spy in her new film “The Thursday Murder Club,” but the Oscar winner insists that the next James Bond “has to be a guy.” In a new interview with Saga Magazine (via BBC ...

“I'm such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy," said the actress, who previously criticized the spy franchise in March 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Sorry, ladies, there's one job Helen Mirren thinks you needn't fill. Mirren, 80, thinks that's as it should be, telling Saga Magazine, in an interview published Aug ...