Mirren hasn’t always had this line in the sand regarding Bond. In 2017, she said it “would have been great” to get the chance to play the role in her youth, “But that time was different; we could never even have imagined a woman playing that role,

While discussing the series with The Evening Standard, Mirren shared her disdain for the Bond franchise- and argued more should be done to make way for stories about female spies. Later this year, fans will see Mirren and Brosnan together again in a Netflix adaptation of The Thursday Murders Club- a film version of the crime-comedy book by Richard Osman.