![]() But that’s not who James Bond is and I know it’s racist to probably point this out.” Former Bond star Roger Moore denied he was racist after the media reported comments in 2015 in which he reportedly said that Bond should be “English-English”, while Yaphet Kotto, who played Mr Big in the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die, said: “Black men should stop trying to play roles created by whites. In 2014 US radio host Rush Limbaugh said: “ suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. The star of The Wire and Luther, Elba has been in contention to play Bond since the early 2010s, particularly after Daniel Craig’s lack of enthusiasm for continuing as 007 became clear. ![]() And it became about nonsense and I got the brunt of it.” Those that weren’t happy about the idea made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting, because it became about race. Elba added: “It was a huge compliment that every corner of the world except for some corners, which we will not talk about, were really happy about the idea that I could be considered.
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