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15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Halle Berry Disagrees With Female James Bond Casting
Since Daniel Craig departed the role in 2021, there's been a lot of chatter about who might be the next James Bond. Over the years, the 007 frontrunners have included British stars like Idris Elba and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. However, a portion of fans have long wondered about the possibility of a woman stepping into the role, which, for context, was initially written as a man by Ian Fleming, whose novels and short stories inspired the movies. There aren't yet any solid plans for the next James Bond movie; however, at the Cannes Film Festival this week, Halle Berry — who famously played Jinx in Die Another Day alongside Pierce Brosnan as Bond in 2002 — gave her totally honest thoughts on the prospect of a woman being cast as the elusive spy. 'I don't know if 007 really should be a woman,' she said in response to a question from Variety. 'In 2025, it's nice to say, 'Oh, she should be a woman.' But I don't really know if that's the right thing to do.' You can find the clip here. You might expect some to feel disappointed by what Halle said, however, it seems the majority of fans are in complete agreement with the Oscar-winner. Many have pointed out that if we want to see women in roles like these, let's leave Bond to the men and create some original female-led stories. One X post with over 170,000 likes read: 'hot take but i agree with her. we need more roles written for women, not more women in roles written for men,' while someone else suggested there's 'absolutely nothing in the name of feminism in gender-swapping the characters of existing IPs.' Proving that there's plenty of appetite and appreciation for female-led spy movies written for women, people brought up popular titles like Jennifer Lawrence's Red Sparrow, Charlize Theron's Atomic Blonde, and Angelina Jolie's Salt, which, believe it or not, was reportedly meant to star Tom Cruise, but was rewritten for Angie. Interestingly, Halle isn't the only woman from the Bond franchise to refute the idea of a female Bond. Rosamund Pike, who was also in Die Another Day, told Uproxx in 2018: 'Why should she have once been a man and now it has to be played by a woman? Why not make a kick-ass female agent in her own right?' She said that to gender-swap the character after all these years would 'underestimate a woman entirely,' explaining: 'There's nothing really about the James Bond character as written by Ian Fleming that resembles a woman. It's a very masculine creation. So sure, make an unexpected, unapologetic, kick-ass, amazing female agent, and yes, I'll play her.'
Fox News
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Nicolas Cage 'could have died' getting 'pounded to smithereens' while filming latest movie
Nicolas Cage recently had a near-death experience. While filming for his latest role in "The Surfer," the 61-year-old actor revealed he "got pounded to smithereens" while practicing his surfing skills: a stunt, he said, that could've killed him. "I have surfed, but every time I've attempted surfing, I've been pounded to smithereens," Cage, who plays a businessman who returns to Australia in hopes of buying his childhood beach house, told Entertainment Weekly. "I surfed down on Sunset Beach. When I was trying to learn, my teacher gave me a short board. I said, 'Look, I want a long board.'" "I just got pounded and literally got stuck in the rip tide, and they said they saw my board, they call it 'tombstone,' like that triangle top," he continued, describing a situation in which the tip of his board stuck out of the water. "I'm climbing up the leash as I'm somersaulting, and I could have died," he continued. "Now I have a young kid, I don't know if I want to do it anymore." Not long ago, Cage, whose impressive career spans over four decades, expressed his desire to possibly retire. "I feel that I've, at this point, after 45 years of doing this, that in over 100 movies, I feel I've pretty much said what I've had to say with cinema. And I'd like to leave on a high note and say adios," Cage told Uproxx in 2023. "I think I have to do maybe three or four more movies before I can get there and then hopefully switch formats and go into some other way of expressing my acting." "I would've liked to have left on a high note, like 'Dream Scenario.' But I have other contracts that I have to fulfill, so we'll see what happens," he continued. "I am going to be very severe and very [stringent] on the selection process moving forward. But for me to do another movie, I do want to explore other formats." His end goal? "The goal is to retire, surf, drink red wine and eat spaghetti," he told EW.
Forbes
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Dove Cameron Wants To Be Drawn Like ‘French Girls' On New Single
Dove Cameron Singer and actress Dove Cameron is setting the stage for her forthcoming sophomore studio album following the release of her debut LP Alchemical: Vol. 1 in 2023. The first taste of the project, lead single 'Too Much,' arrived in February, and the follow-up single 'French Girls' is out now. The song is a cheeky allusion to one of Kate Winslet's famous lines from Titanic and signals a more traditional pop music direction for Cameron's next project. 'Paint me like one of your French girls / In emeralds and curls / I give myself over to you / I wanna be remembered / Be yours forever / Make me your whole world, your muse,' she sings on the track. While it might appear to be a superficial message, Cameron noted that there's a much deeper meaning to be gleaned. 'There's a huge intersection between pain, heartbreak, joy and camp and levity. And that's where we found ourselves in 'French Girls.' The melodrama of being a muse for a sculptor or a painter,' Cameron told Billboard. 'There's something so painfully romantic and also constricting about that. In 'French Girls,' the thing that I was really obsessed with was this self-sacrificing mania about being a muse that is not healthy.' 'I'm definitely not talking entirely about myself,' she continued. 'I'm talking about all of the women in the industry that are considered these great, larger-than-life personalities, these Helen of Troy people that we remember in history as these icons of beauty and art who can also be the most tragic figures. In 'French Girls,' it was just that [question of] Thinking about her place as a woman in the constantly moving music machine prompted the creation of such a song. 'I wanted to explore my feelings around the tension between the joys of connection on a mass scale and the vulnerability that comes with that. The artifice and the intimacy and the surrealism of fame, the people who I look up to, who I consider icons, and where I fit within that, or if I even do," she further explained, per Uproxx. "'French Girls' is a love letter to the romance of my relationship with the world around me, which, like any real relationship, has always been and will always be complex.' Cameron's sophomore studio album is due out later this year.
