“You just get disheartened when you get people from a generational point of view going, ‘It can’t be.’'
Tap to play or pause GIF“Of course, if someone said to me ‘Do you want to play James Bond?,’ I’d be like, yeah! That’s fascinating to me. But it’s not something I’ve expressed, like, 'Yeah, I wanna be the black James Bond'” he told the magazine.He talked about how having a Bond that breaks the mold would actually make a lot of sense for the character.
Because, by the way, we’re talking about a spy. If you really want to break it down, the more less-obvious it is, the better.Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images “You just get disheartened when you get people from a generational point of view going, ‘It can’t be.’ And it really turns out to be the color of my skin."And, as Idris points out, taking the job would come with added pressure at the box office, something the white James Bonds have never had to deal with.
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