She’s often given beautiful/sexy roles, and she’s neither (she was a Bond girl, for god’s sake). I didn’t mind her as the matriarch in Crazy Rich Asians…a role she’s much better suited for.
You tell me. Did Fleming make Bond famous for shacking up with women over 30? Maybe Pussy Galore, but even she was (I think) pushing it as Fleming wrote that she was in her 30s. Honor Blackman did not look a day over 35 (at most) in Goldfinger. And I think Bond strung Moneypenny along in ways that today’s moviegoer would probably frown on.
Are you kidding? In this age Bond should be nothing less than a transgender lesbian with a completely new arsenal of cocktail lines.
“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once after surgery when you wake up to find yourself standing and pissing all over the toilet at 3am”
-Ian Fleming ca2019