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True dat
Although it did share an M with the Brosnan era for over half it's run...
I think this time around they'll do a female Q. In fact I don't see how they couldn't. If Q is male yet again it would almost look like they're trying to say Q has to be male since it's science/technology related. They always do something new like this, and female Q seems like the next logical step. I think they should do a younger, nerdy, no-nonsense female Q. I could see Jodie Comer.
And then since Q is female I think they'll have to do a male M, and one that is older since we'll have a younger Bond. An older more fatherly M. Colin Salmon, Paul McGann?
For Moneypenny I'd say Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Let her be funny and do sexual innuendo towards Bond. Let her write her own lines and/or riff with the new actor.
I do hope for another female M this time. Somebody earlier mentioned Charlotte Rampling. She'd be pretty great in that role.
She’s wonderful, but is pushing 80.
She might be a little too old for M.
Olivia Colman would be a big yes from me however.
Plus, she is rightly so busy with other projects that maybe her role as M would be smaller, and that would appease fans who think the M role has gotten too prominent.
I think that's what puts me off her to be honest: she's a bit too much of a Dench replacement (although I'm sure she could do it differently: she's the MI6 contact in Night Manager, and played it pregnant!).
Britain's kind of teeming with potential Ms - even just looking randomly at the most recent honours list: how about Adjoa Andoh? I could buy her as a pretty fierce and stately M.
There is no shortage of great British actresses who could fill the role. It's hard to think of actresses who haven't already played an M-type in a spy movie/show. I'm thinking of Winslet and Scott-Thomas, but there are undeniably others.
Erin Doherty as Gala Brand? She is excellent in Adolescence and will probably get an Emmy for it shortly.
Hope not.
Dreadfully miscast as Moneypenny.
To be frank, Fiennes, Wishaw, Kinnear and Harris were all pretty poor and their characterisation poorly realised.
Mallory is the one who really stands out. With a fickle 'troubles' backstory which provokes more concern to his total incompetence in NTTD. A complete waste.
He did deliver the f-bomb with aplomb, though, fair play. First audible f in the entire canon.
Have to disagree, there.
Colman would make a grand addition in some capacity, but not M.
Keep seeing her as Sophie in peep show.
Maybe David Mitchell could step up? Or Johnson...
Anyhoo ... I don't want someone as young a Kate Winslet being M. I want an older actress; just my preference.
Kate Winslet is two years older than the actual new "C" of MI6, Blaise Metreweli.
Alice Eve for Moneypenny,
Derek Jacobi for Q
That's fine. I simply wanted an older woman in the role.
This is different.
A clean break avoids baggage and lets the new era truly start fresh.
I personally think Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, and Naomie Harris are all great in their roles and could absolutely return for Bond 26, but it would be confusing. Bond died in No Time to Die, so keeping the same supporting cast makes people go, "Hey, wait a minute. If Bond is dead and alive in this movie [Bond 26], how is this the same M, Q, and Moneypenny?" It's like Bond's death never happened, and confuses the reboot and blurs the line between eras.
And she's younger than me! Albeit only by a few months.
Yeah, Grant or Winslet would interest me; they’re not the same ‘types’ we’ve already had.
In truth, casting M probably isn’t too tricky compared to casting Bond himself! The U.K. is full of actors who could play it very well, and the character can kind of be anyone. Plus it’s more or less a cameo role so you’re probably more likely to get someone who’s really good.
I would be much more interested in Olivia Colman to play a high-impact character at some location for one act of the film. A station chief. An analyst Bond has to get to safety, but who has motives contrary to his. A secondary villain (or just plainly the villain of the film). Some minister (although we've probably had to many of those in the Craig films).
I don't think so. He's rather limited, mostly if not exclusively a comedy actor, he has neither gravitas nor authority to pass as a high ranking civil servant.
I agree. My dream for M would be Jared Harris or someone similar, but I think Colman could be a great Foreign Secretary or something like that.
With male actors who've played M, like Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, and Ralph Fiennes, they don't seem to be held to the same standard of 'difference' from their predecessors. But with women, it’s as if there can only be one version, or else it’s redundant. Colman brings a very different energy to the table: she’s unpredictable, emotionally layered, and can switch between warmth and authority in a way that’s totally her own. I think she could redefine the role just as powerfully as Dench did, not echo it.
Again, I'm not accusing anyone of this double standard, just pointing out it's possibility.