Three years after the release of the last James Bond film, No Time to Die, and three years since Daniel Craig bid farewell to the secret agent role, rumors are swirling about a potential successor. – British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the latest front-runner to be confirmed.
Fans of the spy franchise are starting to get impatient, but for the real-life James Bond, this hiatus is a welcome relief.
Yes, they exist. And for some, bearing the 007 name has proven to be a curse. This is explored by a new documentary, “Our Name Is Bond,” currently streaming on Apple TV and Prime Video.
“We had to sift through a lot of fake James Bonds to find the real James Bond,” says director Matthew Bauer. The Australian filmmaker scoured Facebook for people who reflected the most diverse Bond group possible.
“There were articles saying that the next[movie]James Bond will be black, that James Bond will be a woman, that the next James Bond will be gay. So we decided to introduce a[real-life]black James Bond. That was important because they obviously tend to be different from most people’s image of James Bond.
