Three years after the release of the last James Bond movie, No Time to Die, and Daniel Craig’s farewell to the secret agent role, rumours about possible successors are swirling – British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the most recent hot candidate, but no one has been confirmed.
Yes, they exist, and for some, bearing 007’s name has proved a curse – as explored by a new documentary, Our Name Is Bond, now streaming on Apple TV and Prime Video.
“I had to filter through a lot of fake James Bonds to find the real ones,” says director Matthew Bauer. The Australian filmmaker scoured Facebook for people to reflect as diverse a Bond group as possible.
“There were all these articles saying the next [cinematic] James Bond is black and the James Bond is a woman and the next James Bond will be a homosexual. So it was important for us to have a [real-life] black James Bond because obviously they would tend to be different from most people’s image of James Bond.”