Pierce Brosnan riles up James Bond fans by saying it’s time for a female 007: ‘Get out of the way, guys’

While rumors that Idris Elba could be the first black man to play James Bond have yet to pan out, the iconic secret agent could be getting a different sort of update. British actress Lashana Lynch’s casting in 2020’s No Time to Die — Daniel Craig’s last stint as 007 — has set off whispers that she may become the first female Bond. Pierce Brosnan, for one, is here for it.  “Yes!” the former 007 told The Hollywood Reporter said of having a woman take on the Bond role. “I think we’ve watched the guys do it for the last 40 years. Get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there. I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting.”  Exciting, but perhaps not realistic, he added, noting that the film franchise’s current producers, Barbara Broccoli and half-brother Michael G. Wilson, may resist such change.  “I don’t think that’s going to happen with the Broccolis,” Brosnan added. “I don’t think that is going to happen under their watch.”  Producers aren’t the only ones pushing back against a female 007. Brosnan’s support for a woman to take over the outgoing Craig’s license to kill fired up the franchise’s (mostly male) fans. To make Bond a woman, they argued, would go against writer Ian Fleming’s original vision.