I thought Ian Fleming wrote James Bond?
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Interesting how some people were very open to a gay James Bond though.
This is a thing?
Idris Elba Is ‘Too Street’ To Play 007, Says James Bond Author
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This is a thing?
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
do we have any "smooth" black actors coming up? like who is the next denzel/idris/dennis haysbert/blair underwood type dude? would love to see a black bond, but yea, the timing is bad for idris and i don't know who's waiting in the wings...do people like that black guy from beyond the lights/great debaters? (never seen either movie)
the way people find ingenious ways to say racist shyt without actually uttering said racist words is justI don't have to read the article, that headline says it all
and to think a couple of years ago people were complimenting Daniel Craig for making Bond more "Gritty"(exact word used then).
Pierce Brosnan wants to see gay James Bond
I see more resistance toward a black james bond than a gay white one. I wonder why?
NobodyReally
Superstar
You know, I'm as militant as the next guy, but I sorta think this probably more of a classist issue than a racial one. He did say Elba wasn't the right black actor to play Bond. And Britain is a notoriously classist society. They track kids for university in primary school and you're sorta stuck in whatever track you end up in. Background is everything there, and I wouldn't be surprised if Horowitz is turning his nose up at Elba because he grew up in Hackney and dropped out of school, despite winning a place in the National Youth Music Theatre. 
These people don't care where you end up in life, they stay focused on your background.
These people don't care where you end up in life, they stay focused on your background.
He's right, i mean this isnt Jamarcus Bond, this is James. We arent in Detroit or something 
let them have their character man.
AnonymityX1000
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Oh that's better then. lolYou know, I'm as militant as the next guy, but I sorta think this probably more of a classist issue than a racial one. He did say Elba wasn't the right black actor to play Bond. And Britain is a notoriously classist society. They track kids for university in primary school and you're sorta stuck in whatever track you end up in. Background is everything there, and I wouldn't be surprised if Horowitz is turning his nose up at Elba because he grew up in Hackney and dropped out of school, despite winning a place in the National Youth Music Theatre.
I really don't care breh :whoknows: I wish I did. If that's what the writer thinks, that's what he thinks. Idris is too street, Daniel is too thuggish and too ugly and too blonde, Dalton is too serious, Pierce is too soft, etc. There's always something. Now grant it, if I felt more passionate about there needing to be a black guy to play Bond, maybe I'd care more but I just don't. But I also know getting up in arms about what some writer says when he isn't the one making the decisions is moot. Now if Barbara Broccoli or Michael G Wilson come out and say it, then you got a story but it's a guy writing a book that most cats in here will never read.
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dora_da_destroyer
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nah, he's no smooth or sexy in the way those men were/are. he's not sexythat's what im been saying
I guess chadwick boseman
