Will 007 ever be a woman?

Women make the best spies, so why not have a female version of James Bond?

Because of their ability to understand emotions and multi-task, women are "bloody good spies". During an interview with the Times, an anonymous (let's call her Lisa) leading female intelligence officer has gone on recording and she suggested that being a mother is an advantage too, because it allows women to connect with a wide variety of people, from terrorists to political leaders.

"I am less of a threat, than a single female", said Lisa, who is married with young children. "They [the terrorists] have mothers, sisters, daughters".
Lisa spoke about her job, while the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has an active recruitment campaign.

She said: "It is awesome, completely unique. I have successfully countered proliferations, I have made the world a safer place through some of the operations I have done and the agents I have run. It is always interesting. There is massive diversity. You can be covering completely different geographical areas during a career. There is a string moral reward to it".

Speaking a foreign language is a strong plus, as well as a sense of entrepreneurship when it comes to problem solving. "The beauty of the work is finding the slickest route, to get from A to B without getting caught", she said.

"I think they [women] are bloody good spies," Lisa said. "We are quite good at multi-tasking. We are quite good at tapping into different emotional resources. You can get into a lot of places. But all of those skills are shared by many of my male colleagues".

The actress Rebecca Hall told the Metro that she highly doubts that there will ever be a female version for the 007 agent. "I don't think there ever would be a female Bond, because that character is tied to an intensely male outlook on the world from a pre-feminist era", Hall said.

"I think it is conceivable there would be characters that are on par with that but there is still a mistrust outside the indie sector that people are interested in seeing women carrying films, which is frankly an archaic view".