Madeleine Swann in the 2015 film Spectre and will return for No Time To Die, said to W over Zoom. “I was happy about the emotional aspect of the character this time,” Léa Seydoux, who played Bond Girl Dr. Instead, the women and the villains both mirror the series protagonist: they are damaged and emotional with a dark past, and markedly more progressive in Craig’s era of Bond. The villains are not cartoonish men with shark teeth or racist caricatures, either.
That’s because in the Bond films that star Craig as the fictional British Secret Service agent, the women are fully drawn characters, rather than simple pawns or sexual objects.
When audiences see No Time To Die in theaters on October 8, it will be clear to them that the film is a culmination of Daniel Craig’s James Bond era.
