No Time to Die star Léa Seydoux says women ‘love’ to see James Bond’s body
‘I think what we forget is that James Bond is also a sexual object,’ says actor
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Your support makes all the difference.Léa Seydoux has said that women objectify the actors who play James Bond in films.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar, the No Time to Die star explained: “I think what we forget is that James Bond is also a sexual object.
“He’s totally a sexual object. He’s one of the few, maybe one of the only, male characters to be sexualised.”
The 34-year-old continued: ”I think that women, they love to see Bond, no?
“To see his body. No? Don’t you think? I love to see sexy men in bathing suits.”
Seydoux plays psychiatrist Dr Madeleine Swann in No Time to Die, the release of which has been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The actor has been praised for breaking down some of the stereotypes attached to the women in Bond films, with filmmaker Wes Anderson recently telling Town & Country magazine that he doesn’t think of Seydoux as a classic “Bond girl”.
“She is more like M or Q or Felix Leiter, part of that ensemble, just dressed in aquamarine silk,” he said.
Elsewhere in the new interview, Seydoux opened up about her views on feminism.
“It’s good to be a feminist,” she said. “But we should be ‘masculinist’ too. And vice versa.
“Men should be feminists. We should support each other.”
The actor went on to say she has never felt like a victim of sexism throughout her career.
“I can understand that for past generations it was a real struggle,” she said.
“For me, I’ve never felt that I was inferior to men. Never have I thought that I couldn’t do something because I was a woman.”
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