Phoebe Waller-Bridge Will Change How ‘Bond 25’ Treats Women

All the issues surrounding Bond 25 — Daniel Craig’s preliminary hesitance to return as James Bond, Danny Boyle dropping out as director (he was changed by Cary Joji Fukunaga), a number of script re-writes, and so on. — have been off-set by one superb piece of reports: Phoebe Waller-Bridge was introduced on-board to “polish” the screenplay. “When I saw his Bond for the first time, there was a wryness to his performance that I really loved,” the Fleabag creator instructed Deadline. “I was really excited about writing dialogue for him. I mean, the script was there. It’s already there. I think it’s unfair to say that I’m writing the script.”

Waller-Bridge, who is barely the second feminine to be obtain a writing credit score on a Bond script (and first since Johanna Hardwood for 1963’s From Russia With Love), additionally mentioned whether or not 007 is, as she places it, “relevant” in a #MeToo world. The spy hasn’t at all times had the, uh, biggest respect for girls. But “that’s bollocks. I think he’s absolutely relevant now,” she mentioned. “It has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesn’t have to. He needs to be true to this character.”

“I simply need 
to guarantee that after they get these pages by way of, that [Bond 25 stars Lashana Lynch, Léa Seydoux, and Ana de Armas] open them and go, ‘I can’t wait to do this.’ As an actress, I very not often had that feeling early in my profession. That brings me a lot pleasure, realizing that I’m giving that to an actress.” (Via)

Whenever these actresses or Craig take a look at the digital camera, you’ll know Waller-Bridge had a hand in that scene. Bond 25 comes out in April 2020.

(Via Deadline)