Spectre: Ditch the 'Bond girl' tag, says star Naomie Harris

And she's relishing the role, adding, "I love that I'm representing a Bond woman to admire, not just t**s and a**".

"Monica [Bellucci] is 50 and I think it's respectable to say she's a Bond woman", Harris said.

Spectre beauty Naomie Harris credits her personal and professional success to a week-long Hoffman retreat. "It's quite demeaning to call her a girl".

Spectre reunites Daniel Craig, 47, with director Sam Mendes, after 2012's Skyfall became the highest-grossing Bond film in history.

"A big thing for me was anger", she tells More magazine.

The Bond universe is filled with solitary human beings, with Daniel Craig famously describing Bond as a "lonely misogynist" earlier this year, though both Harris and Whishaw think Craig/Mendes have negotiated the character away from this somewhat. Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren and Maggie Gyllenhaal have all spoken out about sexism and ageism within Hollywood, with Maggie saying that at age 37 she was told that she was ‘too old; to play the love interest of a male actor who was 55.’.

French actress Léa Seydoux also stars alongside Daniel Craig in the film, playing psychologist Dr. Madeleine Swann, and Harris says she is not the typical Bond girl either. "She's quite capable and independent".

"[Swann] is supposed to have the traditional role of being rescued, but actually she rejects his help and is like "I've got this, I'll do this on my own"...She certainly isn't a weak, Bond girl of old that needs rescuing. The fact of the matter is that you just want a Bond who inhabits all the essential qualities of Bond: The charisma, the sexual magnetism, the skill in the field, the elements of danger, his charm and wit", she said. But Harris said it was "missing the point" to discuss the skin colour for the role.

"And the point is that Bond isn't summed up by the color of his hair or the color of his skin".

He once said it would be a "huge honour" to play James Bond, but now Naomie Harris has claimed that Idris Elba doesn't want to play 007.