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This one's probably a question with no answer because the boys' club are vanishingly unlikely to cast a woman to play Bond.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That doesn't seem very clever, going around sharing your own name despite being a spy.

Yet Ian Flemming was supposed to use his past experience in British Intelligence to come up with Bond's novels, so what do I know.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's actually standard practice for secret agents to use their real names, as accidentally failing to respond to a pseudonym is one if the easiest ways to blow their cover.

Furthermore, Bond is a secret agent. The fact that he's a spy who has tons if amazing adventures is not public knowledge, let alone well-known. We the audience know James Bond as a super-popular action hero from a long series of movies, but in his own universe there is nothing particularly special or noteworthy about the name James Bond.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago
  • Mata Hari was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
  • Fritz Duqesne had at least 30 known aliases.
  • Lise de Baissac was primarily known as Irene Brisse but also Odile, Margerite and Adele.
  • Even Dušan Popov, who's allegedly the source for James Bond used in more than one occasion aliases like Duchan, Dusan or Hans: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=8204882&catln=6
  • Eli Cohen also used a fake Syrian identity because c'mon, you won't go around with an Israeli name trying to get into the Syrian government.

I know that double agents like Richard Sorge or Aldrich Ames would use their actual identities, but fake identities or even using the names of deceased people is very common.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He wasn't really a good spy. 🤷‍♂️

[–] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But you have heard of him! Which eh… ya actually maybe you’ve a point there.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago