{"id":633393,"date":"2026-07-10T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=633393"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:27:14","slug":"ex-james-bond-casting-chief-says-007-must-stay-white-and-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=633393","title":{"rendered":"Ex-James Bond casting chief says 007 must stay white and male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The casting director behind the last 14 James Bond films says the character should not be reimagined as a woman or a person of color, pushing back on years of speculation over who will replace Daniel Craig as 007. &#8220;Ian Fleming wrote a character, and that&#8217;s the character that stays,&#8221; she said.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2025\/02\/20\/Film-James_Bond-MGM_Amazon_66192_s1440x886.jpg?390a305551cf77e6ddfccede157db2f5b5dd5ce3\" title=\"Ex-James Bond casting chief says 007 must stay white and male\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casting director behind the last 14 James Bond films says the character should not be reimagined as a woman or a person of color, pushing back on years of speculation over who will replace Daniel Craig as 007. &#8220;Ian Fleming wrote a character, and that&#8217;s the character that stays,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/633394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}