Moneypenny

[chirpychirpy]

The next Bond film will feature a black actress in the role of Moneypenny. Do any of the 007 books by Ian Fleming indicate what race or colour Moneypenny is?

[ojread2]

Does it matter?

[Maggoty]

Well M changed sex when the brilliant Judi Dench took over and the books definately had M as a male, so I suppose poetic licence will always win the day.

But as far as I can remember the books made no reference to race/colour. Tho maybe there may be some fleeting mention of a trite detail such as 'her pale hair was pinned high...... " etc.

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[daisya]

It's only fiction after all so they can do what they want with any part of the film. However I don't recall the books mentioning the race of anyone in them but then I'm not a fan really maybe I've missed it.

[ojread2]

They sensationalise films of real life stories, adding bits in here and there, so Lord knows what they do to complete fiction

[Maggoty]

There will be mention of race at some point - remember the one where he was in the deep south, with voodoo and Jane Seymour. But chirpychirpy your question has brought to the fore that to Fleming race wasn't an issue (and I don't mean in a racist way - just that it wasn't important to him to the plot).

So who knows - we may even get a black Bond. Wesley Snipes in his heyday would have been purrrrrrfect.


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[rojash]

The Bond films have never even vaguely followed the books anyway.

[andy-hughes]

No particular mention, although for the time and locale, Miss M. would have been assumed to be white.

i think it's a brilliant idea - the actress Naomie Harris is gorgeous!!

[lankeela]

Eddie Murphy would make a brilliant James Bond

[andy-hughes]

You are kidding - right?