This one’s probably a question with no answer because the boys’ club are vanishingly unlikely to cast a woman to play Bond.

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    9·
    18 hours ago
    • Mata Hari was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
    • Fritz Duqesne had at least 30 known aliases.
    • Lise de Baissac was primarily known as Irene Brisse but also Odile, Margerite and Adele.
    • Even Dušan Popov, who’s allegedly the source for James Bond used in more than one occasion aliases like Duchan, Dusan or Hans: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=8204882&catln=6
    • Eli Cohen also used a fake Syrian identity because c’mon, you won’t go around with an Israeli name trying to get into the Syrian government.

    I know that double agents like Richard Sorge or Aldrich Ames would use their actual identities, but fake identities or even using the names of deceased people is very common.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Also, in the Bond universe a LOT of people seem to know who he is, it’s not public knowledge per se, but like it seems that all major intelligence services have heard of him and also anybody with power and connections and ill-intent.

      He kinda operates like a really weird form of special forces than a spy half the time.