[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The movies have moved on from the books though, if it were still set back in 50's I might think you had a point but it isn't it's set in present times

The principles of spying are much the same, you can't stick out like a sore thumb, and a black Bond in rural Russia, for instance, would.

I've sat through a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry V where Nigerian actor David Oyelowo played the English King. Now I really rate him as an actor, but what's the point of casting him as a white king? The whole thing centred around the joke that one of Henry V's names was 'Leroy'.