On the heels of the release of Spectre, the latest James Bond film, Daniel Craig has come out as being in favor of a gay James Bond.
“Anything’s possible,” he recently told Sky News. “You can do anything as long as it’s credible and it works. It doesn’t matter.”
But a former James Bond, 88-year-old Sir Roger Moore, disagrees.
“I have heard people talk about how there should be a lady Bond or a gay Bond,” he says, “but they wouldn’t be Bond for the simple reason that wasn’t what Ian Fleming wrote” he told the Mail on Sunday.
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“It is not about being homophobic or, for that matter, racist – it is simply about being true to the character,” he says.
