{"id":805620,"date":"2021-09-23T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805620"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:30:04","slug":"sean-connerys-james-bond-was-basically-a-rapist-new-007-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-connerys-james-bond-was-basically-a-rapist-new-007-director-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Connery\u2019s James Bond Was \u2018Basically\u2019 A Rapist, New 007 Director Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsean-connerys-james-bond-was-basically-a-rapist-new-007-director-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=805620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bond-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Moonraker? More like Moon\u2026raper.<\/p>\n<p>Carey Fukunaga, who is directed the latest installment of the long-running spy serial, has claimed in a new interview that the 007 played by Sean Connery was \u201cbasically\u201d a rapist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it Thunderball or Goldfinger where, like, basically Sean Connery\u2019s character rapes a woman?\u201d Fukunaga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/bond-director-cary-fukunaga-no-time-to-die-1235017724\/\">asked<\/a> about sex scenes in the classic 1960s\u2019 movies in an sit down with The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s like \u2018No, no, no,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Yes, yes, yes,\u2019\u201d Fukunaga said. \u201cThat wouldn\u2019t fly today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fukunaga, 44, appeared to be referring to 1965\u2019s \u201cThunderball,\u201d in which Connery\u2019s Bond kisses a nurse who had repeatedly rejected his advances, said the Reporter. \u201cYou don\u2019t mean \u2026 oh, no,\u201d the nurse, played by Molly Peters says as Bond presses. \u201cOh, yes,\u201d says the suave spy as he pushes her into a sauna and takes off her clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Fukunaga\u2019s suggestion, Phoebe Waller-Bridge was brought in to work on the draft he wrote with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have worked on every Bond film since 1999\u2019s <em>The World Is Not Enough<\/em>. The perception was that the&nbsp;<em>Fleabag<\/em> creator was used, post-reckoning, to make Bond more woke. But Fukunaga dismisses that idea,\u201d said the tabloid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I think that\u2019s the expectation, a female writing very strong female roles, but that\u2019s something Barbara wanted already,\u201d he insisted. \u201cFrom my very first conversations with [Bond producer and gatekeeper Barbara] Broccoli, that was a very strong drive. You can\u2019t change Bond overnight into a different person. But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world. It\u2019s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Broccoli praised Fukunaga\u2019s efforts. \u201cI think people are coming around \u2014 with some kicking and screaming \u2014 to accepting that stuff is no longer acceptable. Thank goodness,\u201d she said of older movies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBond is a character who was written in 1952 and the first film [\u201cDr. No\u201d] came out in 1962. He\u2019s got a long history, and the history of the past is very different to the way he is being portrayed now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lashana Lynch, who plays 00 agent Nomi in \u201c<em>No Time to Die<\/em>,\u201d also thinks Fukunaga has succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCary had big discussions with Barbara and Daniel about how to give the female characters equity, how to keep them in charge of themselves, how to give them solo moments where the audience learns who they are,\u201d she told the Reporter. \u201cIt was really important to empower the female characters as stand-alones. And I think that he kept that in mind throughout the whole shoot. I didn\u2019t feel like Nomi, as a young Black woman, was constantly standing behind the white guy, which, for me, is job done. And that was a very conscious decision for Cary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonraker? More like Moon\u2026raper.Carey Fukunaga, who is directed the latest installment of the long-running spy serial, has claimed in a new interview that the 007 played by Sean Connery was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}