'The Gray Man' star and former Bond girl Ana De Armas says 'There's NO need for a female Bond'
'The Gray Man' star Ana de Armas shed light on whether there must be a female Bond role, and the actress flat out said there wasn't a need to. After playing a Bond girl herself in Daniel Craig's 'No Time to Die', the 34-year-old garnered positive reviews for her role as Paloma, a secret agent who helps Bond on his mission in Cuba.
De Armas was the latest in the long list of Bond girls and played the role alongside Léa Seydoux and Lashana Lynch (who is also 007 in the movie). While 'Blade Runner 2049' may have given her attention, what shot her to fame was her breakout role as Marta in 'Knives Out'. Now, she unites with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling in The Russo Brothers' much-awaited Netflix action blockbuster.
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Talking to The Sun, De Armas said, "There's no need for a female Bond." She also added: "There shouldn’t be any need to steal someone else’s character, you know, to take over. This is a novel, and it leads into this James Bond world and this fantasy of that universe where he's at." What she did advocate was for roles that had more depth and substance. "What I would like is that the female roles in the Bond films, even though Bond will continue to be a man, are brought to life in a different way," De Armas opined.
'The Gray Man' sees De Armas play CIA agent Dani Miranda who looks at the mission as a big deal for her career trajectory. Such was the extensive preparation for the character that she even reached out to a real CIA agent to prep better for the role. There might have also been a bit of a giveaway as she said the Russo Brothers were looking at it as a franchise.
The official synopsis reads, "The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it."
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It adds: "Ryan Gosling is The Gray Man and Chris Evans is his psychopathic adversary in the Netflix/AGBO-produced thriller directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Ana de Armas, with Regé-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Henwick, Dhanush, Wagner Moura and Alfre Woodard. Based on the novel The Gray Man by Mark Greaney, the screenplay is by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely. The producers are Joe Roth, Jeffery Kirschenbaum, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, and Chris Castaldi. Executive producers are Patrick Newall, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Jake Aust, Angela Russo-Otstot, Geoff Haley, Zack Roth, and Palak Patel."
'The Gray Man' releases July 22 on Netflix.