Helen Mirren says she's opposed to female James Bond because character is 'born out of profound sexism'

British actress Helen Mirren said that she isn't interested in a female James Bond because she "never liked" the character, whom she says was "born out of profound sexism."

"The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing. It really wasn't," Mirren told The Standard, after being asked about Amazon MGM Studios gaining creative control of the British spy film franchise.

"I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond," she continued. 

Mirren told the...