I never really considered it before, but it’d be interesting if the Bond 26 team threw us a curveball and casted a female villain. In my mind, I’ve always thought of an upcoming Bond 26 villain as a man for some reason, but choosing a woman instead could be a fascinating choice. A powerful female villain (especially a femme fatale) presents a different and challenging dynamic for Bond, for obvious reasons.

In the end, I just hope Bond 26 avoids outsmarting itself by keeping it simple. If Bond 26 is set in the modern day, for example, a lead female villain would be a perfect fit as an infamous international madam sex trafficker or fentanyl kingpin, while a Bond reboot female villain would need to be a more nuanced assassin or terrorist.

In either scenario, she needs to be a genuinely bad person to sell the villainy part of the equation. Hands off, Bond, she’s not for you!