Helen Mirren isn’t a fan of the idea of a female James Bond ― for good reason. “The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing. It really wasn’t,” the Oscar winner said in a new interview with The Standard, published last week. “I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond,” she said.

That was part of the issue of Bond going to Amazon in the first place. Amazon attempted to get ideas off the ground but the Broccolis consistently shot them down. If you believe what Amazon is getting out into the trades,

Helen Mirren has argued that James Bond is "born out of profound sexism" as she objects to the idea of a woman taking over the character.