We already cast different actors to play Bond. They’re already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.
Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the “bad line”?
I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can’t write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.
But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I’m genuinely ok with it.
I don’t have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.
The line, this line, I just see as arbitrary.
We already cast different actors to play Bond. They’re already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.
Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the “bad line”?
I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can’t write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.
But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I’m genuinely ok with it.
I don’t have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.