"James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else," Mirren adds. Dame Helen Mirren is all for women taking over the world — just not the world of James Bond. In a new interview with Saga magazine alongside her Thursday Murder Club costar Pierce Brosnan,

I'm such a feminist, but James Bond has to be a guy," said the actress, who previously criticized the spy franchise in March 2025

Helen Mirren made a case for why she doesn’t think a woman should play James Bond. “I’m such a feminist. But you can’t have a woman,” the actress, 80, said in a joint interview with her The Thursday Murder Club costar Pierce Brosnan for Saga Magazine published on Monday.