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Speaking about her MobLand co-star and former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, Mirren said that although she was a "massive fan" of Brosnan, Bond was "not my thing" due to its portrayal of women. "The whole series of James Bond, it was not my thing. It really wasn't. I never liked James Bond. I never liked the way women were in James Bond.". She told the Evening Standard that she was opposed to the idea of addressing the spy's historic sexism by casting a woman in the lead role, and that she believed that women would be better served by portrayals of real female spies.