Lashana Lynch on making history as 007 in No Time to Die: ‘Nothing made sense’

No Time To Die, starring Daniel Craig, released in India on September 30. It's the 25th James Bond film.

Lashana Lynch was in stunt training when she found out she was going to play a 00 agent in the James Bond film No Time to Die.

Lynch had already been cast by director Cary Joji Fukunaga and the producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. But who she was to play had remained a mystery to her. She was doing her best to prep for an undetermined but apparently butt-kicking role.

“Nothing made sense. I’m plunged into stunts and they’re teaching me everything under the sun,” Lynch said in an interview. “And I’m like: Why are you teaching me this? What does it mean?”

Instead, Lynch just heard bits and pieces as she went. It felt, she says, like a TV series that carefully reveals a little each episode. Only when she was in the midst of summersaulting and firing fake guns did the full reveal come. Lynch would be the first Black woman to play a 00 agent in the six decades of James Bond movies.

Not only that, Lynch’s character, Nomi, takes the codename 007, with Daniel Craig’s James Bond AWOL and out of the British Secret Service.

“Auditioning for a mysterious film and a mysterious character turned into a possible Bond film and mysterious character,” Lynch recalls. “That turned into definite Bond film and the possibility of someone entering and creating a really beautiful storm.”

No Time To Die, which marks Daniel Criag’s last turn as the 007 agent, had to face an 18-month-long delay to finally arrive in theatres, owing to coronavirus pandemic. It released in India on September 30.

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