Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney shares dream to be ‘bad ass b****’ Bond girl or 007

Words: Alastair James; pictures: Jordan Rossi

Heartstopper‘s Yasmin Finney has said she would like to play a “bad ass b****” Bond girl in the future and teased that there may be conversations happening…

After collecting an Attitude Pride Icon award, supported by Magnum, on Thursday (28 July) the actress, 18, sat down with Attitude to chat about what she would like to do in the future following her success with the Netflix series. 

She told Attitude: “For me when I see a Bond girl I see a badass b**** that is just so cool, she’s just so fierce and she’s just like a badass, basically. That’s my role. I think Yasmin Finney, as I start to get older, I know I’m only 18, but the more I get older the more I’m starting to become this Bond girl within myself so that’s why.

“That would be really cool. Obviously, I’m really young.”

Yasmin explains that the conversation about dream roles first came up when the Heartstopper cast (Kit Connor, Joe Locke, Yasmin, and Will Gao) appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox recently to celebrate Pride. While the conversation didn’t make the edit, it appears to have been an interesting one.

“Everyone was like to Kit, ‘Oh I could see you doing James Bond’,” she shares. “And then everyone asked me the question and I was like, ‘I’m not sure’. And then Kit was like, ‘a Bond girl’. And I was like, ‘Yeah, it male so much sense’.”

Laughing about the idea of playing Bond girl opposite a Bond played by her Heartstopper co-star Yasmin thinks it would, firstly, be in a few years but also, “because we’ve acted together so it would be sick!”. 

Elaborating on the inspiration for her aspiration to be a Bond girl Yasmin tells Attitude that the role has changed from when they first started out appearing as sex symbols. 

“They take control. In the last Bond film I saw the woman was so empowered. I think that with the way that we’re moving James Bond is also going to move as well and change as change happens to the industry. 

“In the first James Bond it was probably horrible because the Bond girl was a sex symbol and she was just really hot and she didn’t really do anything. Whereas now she’s like a boss b****. She’s got a gun, she can kill people if they try her and she’s just like James Bond.”

Then it comes to her: “Maybe I’ll just be James Bond, the new girl. Like, Janet Bond! We don’t need a James Bond.”

Of course, she says, she would take the offer if it came her way. But she thinks such a possibility is years down the line if ever. Asked about whether there’s been any behind the scenes discussions about making the dream happen she remains tight-lipped.

“It’s something I would like to do in the future it’s not like it’s actually going to happen…”

We remain unconvinced and are firmly on board the ‘get Yasmin Finney into a James Bond film stat’ train. 

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