Following Sony Pictures’s recent Cyber attack which led to the leak of quite a number of embarrassing private communication about Hollywood celebrities and jokes about the President by Sony Executives, one of the communication indicated that the Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal, allegedly sent an email to the distributor of the 007 franchise on casting Idris Elba as the next James Bond.
Elba however took to Twitter on Saturday to express his thoughts on speculations regarding him being the next James Bond Star “Isn’t 007 supposed to (be) handsome?” he joked. “Glad you think I’ve got a shot! Happy New year people.”
Isn’t 007 supposed to handsome? Glad you think I’ve got a shot! Happy New year people. pic.twitter.com/3g9lAl2Uo3
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) December 27, 2014
Elba’s tweet comes a few days after host of radio talk show ‘Rush Limbaugh‘ made controversial comments that James Bond is expected to be “white and Scottish.”
Limbaugh said “James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was,”…. “But now (they are) suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. But that’s not who James Bond is.”……“I know it’s racist to probably point this out,” he acknowledged.
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