It has nothing to do with me. I'm not in the movie business. However, profit is the driving force behind all decisions made regarding casting. Even art for art sake still needs to eat.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (18 Jul 2017 5.05pm)

1950s Bond has to be a white man because it's not credible that he'd be anything else; while a 21st century Bond can be drawn from a much more varied genetic pot. Many other characters are similarly interchangeable. I'm fine with this.

But Hollywood gets rightly criticised for replacing non-white characters with white actors just coz. The money argument doesn't always work either, because big budget movies like "Gods of Egypt" cast Gerrard Butler and some unknown Australian as it's main protagonists and Ridley Scott's "Exodus" had a cast of actors about as Egyptian as that of "Carry on Cleo". I am not fine with this.

As Hrolf showed with his contradiction over money vs. white Bond, there's no simple black and white here (pun intended).

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

White actors usually play foreign characters because they are box office draws where as a whole cast of unknown Egyptians, for example, will sink like a stone.

I don't think this concept is dificult to grasp.

I want Bond to be white because I'm white and his character has always been white. If he ever becomes Black it will be because someone thinks it will make more money, not to further the success of the Black 'race'.

What ever colour he is, I will have more important things to worry about.

Well said...

So you are having a meltdown and asking painfully loaded questions because I say that I prefer Bond to be White because I'm White?

You are familiar with human nature? Maybe you are superior in your own mind and think you don't you suffer from it?

No, obviously he is far more likely to be Black with the percentage of Black people in Scotland and Switzerland 40 or so years ago. Spare me please.

And I say it does, because Black and White is not the actual colour of the person but a simplified and accepted way to describe a certain group.

Wow! So you're saying that a black actor could never win the role of Bond over a white actor by being a better actor; the black actor would only get the role because of someone's agenda?

Edited by Ray in Houston (18 Jul 2017 6.13pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Bond is meant to be white from the books....that's obvious but it's not exactly the most important thing and it's just a fictional character.

If they brought in a black actor to play Bond I'd be ok with it just as long as it was in keeping with the character of Bond. If it's the best actor about...then blah blah and all that.

Jamie's 'trans Bond could be good' stuff just proves that he's taking recreationals into work with him.

Bond is meant to be white and male in his late thirties, early forties.....But hey...we are living in an age where a Time Lord is now a Time Lady.....all so that beta males can get excited and think they are doing something.

Not to sure how a 'lord' is meant to be female but feck it.....authenticity is for those interested in details not agendas.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Jul 2017 6.18pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Important? Movies about a ridiculous spy?

Er no. It's just fun.

Why do you give a s***?