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Daniel Craig weighs in on whether the next James Bond should be played by a woman

With Daniel Craig turning in his license to kill after his fifth and final James Bond film, No Time to Die — which finally arrives in theaters on October 8 — speculation is naturally rampant about the identity of the next 007.

So far, the guardians of the long-running franchise, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, are keeping that particular secret hidden away in their own Q-designed vault. But that hasn’t stopped fans from offering their own suggestions, with one common theme being that the new Bond should reflect the diversity of modern-day action heroes, not to mention the diversity of the modern-day audience for action movies.

Over the years, everyone from Idris Elba and Regé-Jean Page to Emily Blunt and Gal Gadot has been floated as a replacement for Craig. But the actor has his own thoughts on whether the time is right to reinvent the role so dramatically. In a new interview with Radio Times, Craig discussed why he thinks the conversation goes beyond Bond and should entail creating exciting new characters as opposed to reimagining existing ones.

“The answer to that is very simple,” Craig said when asked about the possibility of a woman or actor of color taking over the franchise.”There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color. Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”

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