Los Angeles: Actor Gillian Anderson’s name
has been thrown in the ring as the next James Bond.
Gillian Anderson has been trending on Twitter
this whole week, but not because Fox is announcing David Duchovny and Gillian
Anderson will back for the eleventh season of X-Files. Nor did it have to do with Gillian Anderson’s off-Broadway
role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar
Named Desire. The woman behind one of the most iconic and effortlessly
charming detectives has suddenly found her name tied to a very different
fictional operative, and her title consists of just two zeros and a seven.
That’s right! The 47-year-old actor has emerged as social media’s latest
candidate to fill Daniel Craig’s shoes as the MI6 spy. Only now, the character
will be a woman. And with Gillian Anderson’s class and personal panache, the
pop-culture phenomenon known as James Bond won’t miss a beat.
Anderson herself picked up on the trend when
she tweeted a fan-made poster showing the Golden Globe winning actor in front
of the famous fading gun barrel looking all mean and decisive. “It’s Bond. Jane
Bond,” the 47-year-old actress tweeted alongside the #NextBond.
There’s so much to be said for making the
switch to a female Bond after 26 indefatigable installments of preppy white
male entitlement – Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce
Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
What this light-hearted social media campaign
is inherently questioning of as to why a dangerously clever and seemingly
flawless secret agent must be an unapologetic womanizer to fulfill his profile.
In the nineties, Gillian Anderson brought us a new kind of detective: dorky,
intelligent, unabashedly skeptical and who wasn’t just a neat-looking foil to
her male partner’s fanatic conspiracies, as FBI Special Agent Dana
Scully in X-Files.
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