James Bond has been around for a long time, with the first film released in 1962. To put that in context, it took two years for the civil rights act to be approved, which put an end to segregation and job discrimination based on race or sex. It stands to reason that Sean Connery's original Bond persona would be outmoded based on that alone, and there's no denying the character's reputation as a womanizer. Cary Fukunaga, the director of No Time To Die, talks about how the original character doesn't hold up in today's world and how he tried to update the new plot for Daniel Craig's final depiction of James Bond.

“I think that’s the expectation, a female writing very strong female roles, but that’s something Barbara wanted already. From my very first conversations with [Broccoli], that was a very strong drive. You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person. But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world. It’s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.”