Kate Roger

I think the reason that this conversation is coming up is purely because I believe, compared to the 70s, that our audiences are just more, they demand more, we're a little bit more sophisticated.

Some of us are, I'm certainly not.

About what we want.

And if you look at the Sam Mendes versions, also Martin Campbell, the New Zealand director who bought us the first Blonde Bond and did Casino Royale, arguably one of my favourite Bond films.

We need to feel that grit and we needed to feel what he was going.

There was a bruisedness to the Daniel Craig character.

Kind of, except that the casting of this is headline news for months and months.

We're obsessed about it.

So you can argue that it is and it isn't.

And each time it's been a recalibration of where is Bond going next.

And we have coming in from stage left a phenomenal Denis Villeneuve, who is just an extraordinary filmmaker, way back to Sicario days.

And of course, he does Dune.

And Arrival, one of my most emotionally crippling films I think I've ever watched.

He's an extraordinary storyteller.

We're bringing him into the franchise to relaunch another Bond.

And for me, I'm excited at

Definitely informs the casting process.

The extraordinary casting agent, Nina Gold, never done a Bond, but she's certainly been around for decades, is coming in to be part of this casting process.

And it's going to be interesting to see what angle they're coming at.

I'm sorry.