In the 2021 James Bond film, No Time to Die, Bond, played by Daniel Craig for the final time, re-enters the M.I.6 offices with the woman who has succeeded him, Nomi. As the two walk side by side, Nomi, played marvelously by Lashana Lynch, is addressed by her peers as “007.” “That must bother you,” she says, before walking ahead of him.
The film marked a new era for the James Bond franchise. Lynch, 36, is both the first woman and person of color to hold the title of 007. Her latest role, starring alongside Eddie Redmayne in the Peacock series The Day of the Jackal, exists in a world similar to that of Bond. Putting a modern spin on the 1973 blockbuster film, Eddie Redmayne plays an international assassin hunted down by Lynch, who, like 007, is an intelligence officer.
