Of course they can be , I wasn’t suggesting that . What I was saying was that the character as written by Ian Fleming was clearly a white middle class sophisticated man . Clearly the creator of bond was basing bond on someone he knew or felt he knew .
Surely you get a part in a film based on your acting ability and to a degree what the director feels the role should look like . Obviously if the character is meant to be black then it should be given to the best black actor available at that time who wants to do it . However changing characters...