Daniel Craig's daughter has taken to social media to recreate an iconic Bond Girl scene, originally featuring Ursula Andress.
Ella Loudon - Craig's eldest daughter - shared some sizzling snaps on her Instagram account, where she sported a stunning white bikini reminiscent of classic Bond Girl Ursula Andress from the very first film, Dr. No.
The 31-year-old also cryptically tagged her location as Goldeneye...
Andress - a Swiss actress who is now in her late 80s - starred in the original Bond film as Honey Ryder, becoming the first of many glamorous women to star in the Blockbuster franchise.
As for Loudon, she shared several snaps of herself sitting on some rocks at the beach, leading some netizens to speculate she may have been in Monaco. In Dr. No (1962), Sean Connery's Bond is sent to Jamaica to look into the shady disappearance of a fellow British agent.
His search leads him to the underground base of Dr. Julius No, who is attempting to interfere with the US' space launch from Cape Canaveral.
Andress played Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond movie Dr. No. Credit: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty
Many of Loudon's followers praised the star for her skimpy bikini, with one person writing: "Taking after your father. You definitely have the 007 in you! :)"
Someone else added: "These are beautiful [...] gosh you look so much like your dad xxxxxxxx."
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Loudon is the eldest child of James Bond actor Daniel Craig and his first wife Fiona Loudon, who were married from 1992-1994. Craig then went on to remarry and have another daughter with Rachel Weisz five years ago. Loudon was one of just four people invited to their 2011 wedding.
Some of the other images Loudon posted included one where she was wearing a black one-piece swimsuit while walking through shallow water at the beach. Another pic included the star showing off her derriere in a cheeky pink bikini.
Loudon and her father aren't often pictured together, however, they were papped arm-in-arm at the London Film Festival late last year for Craig's latest movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Loudon and her father at the London Film Festival last year. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty
The pair also appeared together at his premiere for No Time To Die back in 2021.
Loudon herself is also an actress, having played roles in movies like The Vizitant, Arab, and The Things We Left Unsaid.
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It's hard to believe that Halle Berry's turn as Bond Girl Jinx in 2002's Die Another Day was a whole 18 years ago, but for those nostalgic for the good old days (especially in these "unprecedented" times), Halle has just provided us with quite the blast from the past.
Halle recreated one of the most unforgettable scenes in the film - the one where she dons an orange bikini and holster to boot. Well, this time, minus any weaponry.
The 53-year-old took to Instagram to grace our feeds with a similar photo of her strolling down the beach in a belted orange bikini, and it's safe to say that she looks amazing.
"Never been a shady beach," she captioned the picture, alongside a laughing crying emoji.
And fans loved the look, with one writing "Still phenomenally beautiful."
Another corroborated, "Absolutely gorgeous [...] you never get old."
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This comes after the actress announced that she is to pull out of an upcoming film in which she was to play a transgender character, after facing considerable backlash online.
Per Variety, Berry revealed during an Instagram live video that she had been preparing for the role but had not yet been officially cast as the character.
“[It’s] a character where the woman is a trans character, so she’s a woman that transitioned into a man. She’s a character in a project I love that I might be doing,” she said.
The actress added that she wanted to take a "deep dive" into "that world", Variety reports, likely meaning the trans community. “Who this woman was is so interesting to me, and that will probably be my next project,” Berry continued.
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However, she has since received backlash on social media, after misgendering the character multiple times. One Twitter user wrote of her discussions of the character, "please reconsider @halleberry. trans men aren’t women playing dress up, and this would do a lot more harm than good."
Another added, "Halle Berry on playing a trans man in her next movie: “It's really important to me to tell stories, and that’s a woman, that’s a female story – it changes to a man, but I want to understand the why and how of that. I want to get into it.” Cis actors need to stop doing this."
Since then, Halle Berry has released a statement in which she confirmed that she would no longer be considering the role and apologized for her remarks. She wrote;
“Over the weekend I had the opportunity to discuss my consideration of an upcoming role as a transgender man, and I’d like to apologize for those remarks. As a cisgender woman, I now understand that I should not have considered this role, and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories.
“I am grateful for the guidance and critical conversation over the past few days and will continue to listen, educate and learn from this mistake. I vow to be an ally in using my voice to promote better representation on-screen, both in front of and behind the camera.”
Former Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke claims that she'd relish the chance to play a female version of James Bond if the opportunity ever arose.
Daniel Craig is all set to play the world's most famous spy for the last time in the upcoming movie No Time to Die (directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga) after first donning the iconic tux back in 2006 with the movie Casino Royale.
This has fuelled speculation as to who is going to step into Craig's shoes, with actors like Idris Elba and Cillian Murphy being the most common suggestions.
Watch Emilia hilariously recreate stock photos in the vid below:
But now Clarke, who famously portrayed the character of Queen Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's fantasy epic Game of Thrones, has thrown her hat into the ring, claiming that she'd welcome the chance to play a gender-swapped version of 007.
In a recent interview with Empire magazine, Clarke was asked if she would ever consider playing Bond. She enthusiastically replied: "Yeah! Of course! Hell to the yeah! James Bond is one of those franchises where it’s never not cool. You could literally make the naffest James Bond in the world and it would still be cool."
Watch Rami Malek previously address rumors that he's been cast in James Bond:
Indeed, the idea isn't as outlandish as you might think. For instance, Doctor Who, another famous British pop culture icon, has recently cast actress Jodie Whittaker in the lead role, a part traditionally played by men since 1962.
Former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has publically supported the concept of a female bond. Per Esquire, in an interview at Deauville Film Festival, Brosnan stated: "I think we've watched the guys do it for the last 40 years, get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there. I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting."
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What would James Bond be without the stream of glamorous and beautiful women that surround him? With each new film, he attracts yet more women, and these leading ladies have been affectionately and notoriously known as Bond girls. Producers aim to get the hottest and most versatile actresses from all over the world on board, and I think it's fair to say that more often than not, they succeed!
Plus there are a lot of juicy details and saucy secrets that even the biggest fans of the franchise don't know about its Bond girls. And a lot of these unknown facts are about the very actresses who play these women! Get to know some of the most steamy secrets about the Bond girls we've met over the last five decades...
[post_page_title]Vesper In Casino Royale[/post_page_title]
Did you know that Casino Royale's Vesper was actually based on a real person?
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Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books, had a short-lived affair with a woman called Christine Granville, who was also known as Vesperale. Vesperale was the inspiration behind the character of Vesper.
[post_page_title]Elizabeth Hurley Turned Down Golden Eye[/post_page_title]
The producers of 1995's GoldenEye really wanted Elizabeth Hurley to play the part of Natalya, but she turned the role down!
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It seems unlikely that an actress would turn down a role as a Bond girl! I mean, it's fun, it's sexy, it's action-packed. And the really hilarious thing about it all is that Elizabeth went onto play Vanessa Kensington in the lovable and popular Bond parody, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
[post_page_title]No Sexy Time For Bond And Camille[/post_page_title]
In the 2008 Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, James Bond and the leading Bond girl do not have sex...
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And why is this something worth noting? Well, because at that point, it was the first time in James Bond movie history that Bond doesn't sleep with a leading Bond girl!
[post_page_title]What Is M's Real Name?[/post_page_title]
Have you ever wondered what M stands for? M works for MI6, so could M possibly be short for MI6?
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In the script for the 1995 Bond movie, GoldenEye, M's full name is revealed to be Barbara Mawdsley, but she's never actually referred to by this name in the film.
[post_page_title]Barbara Cerrera Was Up For The Sex Scenes[/post_page_title]
In the Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, things got very steamy between Sean Connery and Barbara Cerrera...
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Barbara Cerrera decided she didn't want to have a body double replace her during the sex scenes between herself and Sean Connery - a bold move! In fact, she point blank refused one, and so the sex scenes in the film really do feature the actress.
[post_page_title]The Oldest Bond Girl[/post_page_title]
Honor Blackman was the oldest woman in the history of the Bond movies to play a Bond girl...
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Honor was 37 years old when she played the role of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. The producers of the franchise are now obviously used to hiring younger actresses who are "in their prime", to play James Bond's hot lovers. Goldfinger, however, was the third movie of the entire franchise which could have set a precedent for a more mature Bond girl to take center stage, but it appears it didn't.
[post_page_title]Why Teri Hatcher Agreed To Do Bond[/post_page_title]
In 1997, Teri Hatcher took part in Tomorrow Never Dies, alongside Pierce Brosnan, but she probably would never have agreed to do the role if it wasn't for her husband...
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Teri's husband at the time, Jon Tenney, was a huge Bond fan, and it was a sort of fantasy for him to be married to a Bond girl. And with this new Bond movie, he finally could! Ahh the things you do for love!
[post_page_title]Pussy Galore[/post_page_title]
So what's the deal behind the most recognized Bond girl name ever, Pussy Galore?!
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The name "Pussy Galore" is so laughable that even the Austin Powers movies which was a spoof of James Bond, parodied it by writing in the character, Alotta Fagina! But Pussy Galore certainly wasn't the only provocative Bond girl name. In fact, a lot of the Bond girls had suggestive names: Dr No's Honey Ryder, Moonraker's Dr. Holly Goodhead and Octopussy's Octopussy are just a few examples.
[post_page_title]Roger Moore's Jealous Wife[/post_page_title]
There were a number of love scenes between Roger Moore and Bond girl actress, Madeline Smith, which the late Roger Moore's wife may not have been too happy about...
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In fact, Roger Moore's wife was always on the Live and Let Die set when he and his Bond girl were filming steamy bedroom scenes. And she watched every single move they made...
[post_page_title]The First Main Female Villain[/post_page_title]
In the 1999 movie, The World is Not Enough, the main villain wasn't male as was usually the case...
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Elektra King, played by Sophie Marceau, was the main villain of the movie! In fact, this movie marked the very first time in the series of Bond movies that James Bond kills a Bond girl!
[post_page_title]James Bond The Homewrecker[/post_page_title]
In the movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, Teri Hatcher's Paris Carver has an affair with Pierce Brosnan's Bond...
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It was the first time an audience had seen Bond engage in an illicit affair with a married woman!
[post_page_title]Against All Odds[/post_page_title]
Gemma Arterton played Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace in 2008, and she was actually pretty darn lucky to get the role. Almost as lucky as us moviegoers were to have her in the film...
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Gemma won the role over about 1500 other actresses! It could quite literally have been anyone, but the dazzling and charming actress won the role fair and square.
[post_page_title]No Bond Girl At The End[/post_page_title]
In Casino Royale, Daniel Craig's Bond has a girl, who ends up being the one that got away...
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Casino Royale is the only Bond movie in which James Bond ends up without a girl as the film draws to a close.
[post_page_title]Bond Is Busier Than Ever Before[/post_page_title]
James Bond has always been known to sleep around, but the 1983 movie takes things to a whole new level with the ageing Sean Connery taking center stage...
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In Never Say Never, James Bond sleeps with four women throughout the movie...
[post_page_title]Ten French Actresses[/post_page_title]
Bond travels the world, and meets all kinds of different villains... and women! And quite a few of these women happen to be French...
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Since its inception, there have been ten French actresses in the Bond franchise.
[post_page_title]A Very Dedicated Bond Girl[/post_page_title]
Caterina was stoked to get the chance to play a Bond girl in Casino Royale, and she certainly wanted to make the most of it...
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That’s why she opted out of getting a stunt double to perform the scenes in which her character rides a horse. Throughout the course of the movie, she had an injured leg, and so it was advised that a professional film the scenes on the horse. Caterina desperately wanted to be seen riding the horse for real, injured leg and all...
[post_page_title]Give Bond Girl No.1 A Break[/post_page_title]
Until 1997, there was a pattern in the Bond films in which the Bond girl that appeared first would be the one who is killed off...
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In Tomorrow Never Dies, Paris Carver is the first Bond girl to be introduced in the movie, and she's also the one that ends up dying in the end, by the hands of none other than James Bond himself.
[post_page_title]Frost Over Brand[/post_page_title]
Miranda Frost was a Bond girl character in Die Another Day, however, it was initially supposed to be the character of Gala Brand in her place...
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Gala Brand appears in Ian Fleming's third Bond novel, Moonraker, as a policewoman in England's Special Branch. However, for some reason, she hasn't yet appeared in any of the Bond movies. Miranda Frost, on the other hand, is an agent who works for MI6 but ends up in cahoots with Gustav Graves, the movie's main villain. Who knows whether Gala Brand will ever make an appearance in at least one of the movies...
[post_page_title]Blast From The Past[/post_page_title]
Strawberry Fields is an MI6 agent in Quantum of Solace. She is given the important task of preventing Bond from following the villainous Dominic Greene to Bolivia...
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The character of Agent Strawberry Fields is an homage to the Bond girls of the 1960s, which is why she looks like she could be a Bond girl from a classic Bond movie like Goldfinger or Dr. No. It was a nice little nostalgic treat for the fans of the original movies which started in the 1960s.
[post_page_title]Casino Royale's Shower Scene[/post_page_title]
The shower scene near the end of Casino Royale was a nice touch to the action-packed movie. We get to see a more tender side to James Bond as he comforts his main Bond girl...
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The script for the movie, Casino Royale stated that Vesper, Eva Green's Bond Girl, would only be wearing underwear in the shower scene. However, Daniel Craig didn't think that was a good idea - he felt in that moment, Vesper wouldn't have stripped off; that it would have felt gratuitous. And so Eva Green ended up not taking his kit off. When you think about it, it was quite brave of Daniel to make such a bold suggestion considering it was his first Bond movie and all.
[post_page_title]Ursuala Andress' Accent[/post_page_title]
In 1962, the very first Bond movie, Dr. No, was released with Sean Connery debuting the very first performance of James Bond. And who was his main Bond girl in the movie? Honey Ryder, played by Swiss beauty, Ursula Andress...
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Throughout the Bond movies, there have been a number of foreign-born Bond girls, and so it's pretty common for them to have accents that are noticeably different Bond's own accent. However, it appears that Ursula Andress' accent was far too strong for the producers' liking! In fact, when the movie was released in theaters, it wasn't Ursula's own voice coming out of her character's mouth - she had been dubbed over by German voice actress, Nikki van der Zyl! Here's hoping she wasn't just chosen for her pretty face...
[post_page_title]The First American Bond Girl[/post_page_title]
Diamonds Are Forever, the seventh movie in the series, came out in 1971 and featured Sean Connery who had made his debut as the very first James Bond nearly a decade prior to this movie. This time the Bond girl, Tiffany Case, was played by Jill St. John...
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Californian-born Jill St. John was the very first American actress to play a Bond girl since the film series' inception. And not only is the actress American, but she also plays an American, and an American diamond smuggler at that.
[post_page_title]Halle Berry, The Oscar Winner[/post_page_title]
In 2002, the beautiful A-list actress, Halle Berry, played Jinx in Die Another Day. You might say it was a role of a lifetime to be able to play a Bond girl, however, then Halle Berry left production for a few days, to attend the Oscars...
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In 2002, Halle Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress at the 74th Academy Awards, and that same year the Bond movie she was filming came out in theaters. When she returned to work on the Bond set, she could do so knowing all the while that she was Oscar-worthy and versatile enough to play any kind of role; eye candy in a spy movie and a trainwreck mother in a drama. She can have her pick...
[post_page_title]A Bus Conductor As A Bond Girl?[/post_page_title]
Mie Hama is a Japanese actress who played Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice, however, before being cast as a glamorous lady in an action movie, she did something rather different...
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A lot of the women who'd played Bond girls before Mie Hama were well-off and European, Mia, on the other hand, was Japanese and a former bus conductor. So instead of frolicking around in fancy 60s headscarves, she would have been walking up and down buses collecting people's fares.
[post_page_title]Only One Repeat Bond Girl[/post_page_title]
There have been a lot of popular Bond girls over decades. Every James Bond fan has a favorite Bond girl, and if you don't have a favorite, are you even a Bond fan?
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However, there's only ever been one woman since the film series' inception who's been in more than one Bond movie, and that's Swedish actress, Maud Adams. She played a Bond girl twice! The first time was in The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974 and in 1983, she played Octopussy in Octopussy.
[post_page_title]Bond's By Day/Ringo's By Night[/post_page_title]
American actress, Barbara Bach, played Anya Amasova in 1977 Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
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There have been many, many hot Bond girls, but Barbara Bach is definitely up there! But did you know that she was married to Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr? In fact, they got married four years after The Spy Who Loved Me was released.
[post_page_title]Life Sort Of Imitating Art[/post_page_title]
In 1981, Cassandra Harris starred as a Bond girl in the 18th Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only, as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf. At the time, she was married to Pierce Brosnan, and what do you know, a decade later, he starred as Bond himself...
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While Cassandra was filming For Your Eyes Only, she managed to get her husband, Pierce, to meet the producer, Albert R. Broccoli. And you know what the lead to - his starring in four bond movies: 1995's Golden Eye, 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, 1999's The World Is Not Enough, and 2002 Die Another Day.
[post_page_title]Seductive Movie Poster[/post_page_title]
The 1981 For Your Eyes Only poster features a long and slender pair of legs that supposedly belong to a Bond girl...
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In between the legs, you can spot a mini-Bond in action! The poster is supposed to be promoting For Your Eyes Only, so you might think that the main Bond girl actress, Carol Boquet, would be featured in the poster, but no, it's not her. Those pair of legs belong to a model. And guess what the model was asked to do during the photoshoot - she was asked to wear the bikini bottoms backward so that the skimpier part was worn over her tush, showing more of her butt cheeks.
[post_page_title]Casino Royale, 1967[/post_page_title]
Do you remember Ursula Andress? The Swiss actress from earlier? The one who's apparently incomprehensible accent meant that her own voice was axed from the movie? Well, guess which movie she starred in five years after Dr. No...
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Yes, there's a Bond movie called Casino Royale which is one of the more recent ones, having been released in 2006. However, did you know that in 1967, there was a spoof Bond movie with the same name? Well, Ursula, who had been dubbed in 1962's Dr. No, starred in the spoof movie too! Other stars in the film also included Orson Welles and Woody Allen.
[post_page_title]Honey Ryder's Famous White Bikini[/post_page_title]
You won't find a Bond fan who doesn't know about the scene in Dr. No, where Honey Ryder comes out of the water in that tight white bikini...
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It's an iconic scene! Well, you probably didn't know this about that seductive bikini - Ursula helped sew it with the costume designer, Tessa Prendergast Welborn, so that it would fit her perfectly! After the movie, it was sold at an auction for $45,195!
Daniel Craig has commented on whether or not he thinks there should ever be a female James Bond.
The actor, 53, made the revelation ahead of the release of his fifth and final portrayal of the iconic character in the upcoming movie No Time to Die, which is being released this fall, the Metro reports.
Despite once saying he "cannot see any reason why ultimately a woman, a lady, girl, cannot play the James Bond character", Craig's stance on the subject took a dramatic U-turn in a recent interview with the Radio Times.
He said of the introduction of a female actor to play Bond: "The answer to that is very simple. There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color.
"Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?"
In the video below, Craig gets emotional on the set of his final Bond film:
The actor went on to explain that the franchise had made a recent attempt to "spice it up" by recruiting Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge to the Bond writing team.
However, he noted that because she is a fan of the iconic character herself, she "wasn't about to take him in a different direction."
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The current James Bond is not the first person to say that the character shouldn't be portrayed by a woman, so too did producer Barbara Broccoli when she was being interviewed on Good Morning Britain in 2019.
"We have to make movies about women and women's stories but we have to create female characters and not just for a gimmick turn a male character into a woman," Broccoli said.
In a recent clip from the upcoming Apple TV documentary Being James Bond, a visibly emotional Craig told the crew after filming on No Time To Die had wrapped: "A lot of people here worked on five pictures with me. And I know there's a lot of things said about what I think about these films or all of those... Whatever.
"But I've loved every single second of these movies, and especially this one, because I've got up every morning and I've had the chance to work with you guys."
It is not currently known who will be stepping into 007's shoes when Craig departs from the series.
No Time to Die is set to be released on September 30.
Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has let slip a few crucial hints about the next 007.
Which actor will play the super spy next is a question on the tip of everyone's tongue after Daniel Craig gave his final performance as James Bond in No Time To Die.
Now Broccoli - who shares control of the Bond movie franchise with her half-brother Michael G. Wilson - has given away a few telling details about what we can expect.
"I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men's roles. I don't think there are enough great roles for women, and it’s very important to me that we make movies for women about women."
While she may have ruled out the possibility of a female Bond, Broccoli did say she was open to casting non-white actors as the British spy.
"He should be British, so British can be any [ethnicity or race]," she said.
James Bond first appeared in Ian Fleming's 1952 novel Casino Royale. Broccoli's father - producer Albert R. Broccoli - acquired the rights to the franchise in the 60s, handing control of the series over to his daughter and stepson when he died.
Barbara Broccoli with Daniel Craig. Credit: Paul Smith / Alamy
Since his first outing in Fleming's novels, the suave secret agent has been through many incarnations on both page and screen.
Craig was the sixth actor to bring him to life, and with times changing many people are calling for Bond number seven to represent a more diverse casting.
But Broccoli didn't give much else away, saying she wants "to let [No Time To Die] play and really celebrate Daniel's incredible achievement" before discussing who will come next.
She added: "People always ask, 'Oh, who's the next James Bond?' It's like asking a bride as she's going up to the altar who's her next husband going to be. I don't really want to think about who is going to be the next person until I absolutely have to."
While she was reluctant to discuss who would play Bond next, Broccoli did give some insight into who will direct the next movie, saying that they would love to work with No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga again.