BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 23: Actor Laverne Cox at Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 23, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Essence)
So what’s been happening in the world of Bond? Let’s take a look, with our weekly roundup of James Bond news.
Also, according to The Express Daily, someone placed a huge sum of money on Hardy, adding to the speculation that Hardy will by 007. (Does the bettor have some sort of inside knowledge?)
James Bond. Said McKellen: “If you play James Bond as an outwardly camp, silly gay man that no one took seriously, and then he turned out as many gay men are underneath their clothes — buff and strong and as hetero as any hetero — we might have a more truthful story than the one that has been told.”
For Your Eyes Only was released 36 years ago, on June 24, 1981.
During an appearance on Later Night with Seth Meyers, actress Laverne Cox, of Orange Is the New Black, talked about her Bond fandom and wish to someday be the first transgender Bond Girl.
Upcoming Birthdays:
June 25
Carly Simon, singer (“Nobody Does It Better” from The Spy Who Loved Me)
June 26
Robert Davi, Sanchez (The Living Daylights)
June 29
Soon-Tek Oh, Lieutenant Hip (The Man with the Golden Gun)
