After emails were leaked between Sony execs eyeing Idris Elba for the film franchise, Rush Limbaugh offered his two (offensive) cents on the matter.James Bond is an idea more than an actual man at this point. In fact Limbaugh again gets it wrong because the James Bond character was half-Scottish and half-Swiss. Bond just needs to be good looking, suave, and able to fight his way out of any situation. Elba could pull that off quite easily.
During his news program, the controversial commentator expressed his concern over the Avengers: Age of Ultron star stepping into the Bond role.
"James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is," Limbaugh said.
"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."
Plus you get away from the thug factor that makes me not want to watch the Daniel Craig version of James Bond. I just never seen James Bond as some SAS remorseless killer type of person. Craig always seems to have those dead eyes and I'm just waiting until they change him out for someone else. In any case Elba would make a great Bond and I would be back in the theaters for sure to see him mix it up.
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