Moneypenny gets marginally less menial task in Bond spin-off
Bond's secretary runs around London's South Band trying to find his smartphone
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Your support makes all the difference.Moneypenny has stepped out from behind her desk and the drudgery of ordering James Bond his cuff links to…. retrieve his Sony smartphone.
The ‘Made for Bond’ advert stars current Moneypenny actress Naomie Harris, and sees ‘a chase unfold as she tries to deliver Bond’s Xperia smartphone’.
She evades a group of henchmen in the process, who are presumably trying to get their hands on Bond’s unbeatable Fruit Ninja score.
The 60-second short comes just over a month before the release of Spectre, which will see Daniel Craig play 007 one last time, joined by Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear and newcomers Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux and Dave Bautista.
Bond films have always struggled to pass the Bechdel test, with Moneypenny in particularly lacking any kind of character depth, though Bond author Anthony Horowitz is trying to address this in his next Bond book, which will see the spy get a female colleague who calls him out on his sh*t and an “outspoken gay friend” who challenges his old-fashioned attitudes.
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