Wayward star Mae Martin wants to play James Bond and we are 100% on board
Mae Martin in Wayward (Netflix)
Mae Martin in Wayward (Netflix)
Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig and…. ummm, Wayward’s Mae Martin.
Yes, the non-binary comedian wants to play James Bond, and we are absolutely here for it.
Mae Martin, whose new show Wayward dropped on Netflix last week, was asked about playing Ian Fleming’s licensed-to-kill MI6 agent, during an interview with iHeartRadio Canada.
“He’d be sort of a feeble Bond”
“Well, I think we [need to] start some kind of serious petition,” Martin, who plays trans cop Alex in Wayward, said. “I don’t want people to think that this is ironic or tongue-in-cheek. This is serious: I would like to play Bond.
“He’d be sort of a feeble Bond. It’d be a different type of Bond than you’ve seen because he’d be kind of sweating and quivering and he’d be crying. His main move would be slapping people.”
The latest 007 film, No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig, was released in 2021. With it being common knowledge that the Knives Out star would not be returning to the role, there has been much talk about who would take ownership of the famous Walter PPK gun and assorted tech, with Jonathan Bailey and Luke Evans both favoured by fans.
And it seems that some people rather like the idea of Mae Martin stepping into the fancy shoes and tux. “A Bond I would actually watch,” one TikToker wrote. Someone else agreed, saying: “Bond crying is a Bond I’m up for.”
Others were unhappy even at the idea of anyone other than a cis man taking over, branding it “woke”.
In Wayward, Martin plays a trans police officer who becomes suspicious of a school for troubled teens and the mysterious woman who runs it, played by Juror #2 and Wanderlust star Toni Collette.
Speaking to Deadline, Martin described the transmaculine role of Alex as “juicy.”
“Alex is a character who’s desperate for acceptance, and he finds this in what seems like a liberal utopia, the way a lot of those cults in the 70s did seem to promise all the right things. He’s definitely someone who’s seduced by, and yearning for, that kind of heteronormative hyper-masculinity and a nuclear family.”
Martin told Tudum that they were “always drawn to protagonists who were figuring things out in real time with the audience, so I wanted him to be the voice of the audience”, they said, adding: “He’s desperate to conform and to fit in and find community. I like that struggle in him, and he’s a little bit bumbling. He makes some bad choices and some good choice.”
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