{"id":144497,"date":"2023-10-25T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=144497"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:31:22","slug":"james-bond-villains-hurt-perceptions-of-visible-differences-says-sex-ed-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/tv-movies\/james-bond-villains-hurt-perceptions-of-visible-differences-says-sex-ed-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018James Bond villains hurt perceptions of visible differences\u2019 says Sex Ed star"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Time to Die: Final international trailer for new Bond film<\/h3>\n

Streaming platforms and franchises like the James Bond series are being asked to reconsider their depictions of villainous characters with scars and other visible differences.<\/p>\n

Express.co.uk recently spoke with Beth Bradfield, star of CBBC\u2019s Malory Towers and Netflix\u2019s Sex Education, about why she decided to support the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really hurts a certain percentage of people with visible differences in people\u2019s heads,\u201d Bradfield says.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially young people. There are so many examples of this happening. It\u2019s very ingrained in storytelling.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren are so easily malleable in the way that they perceive people and the beliefs that they\u2019re given.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf they\u2019re shown this enough times, if they\u2019re shown that people with visible differences are bad or evil or they\u2019re going to hurt them, then they\u2019re going to start treating people that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Changing Faces is not asking platforms to remove content with these stigmatised portrayals, the campaign is calling for them to make context and information more accessible to viewers who might be influenced.<\/p>\n

One example of a franchise with a long-standing tradition of problematic portrayals is the James Bond series.<\/p>\n

Almost every film features 007 taking on a villain with a scar or deformity of some kind; most recently, Daniel Craig took on Rami Malek\u2019s Safin, whose face is completely scarred from a burn injury that sets him on a path of revenge.<\/p>\n

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As Eon Productions is in the midst of another Bond reboot, Bradfield says: \u201cThey should really consider the impact that that decision is going to have.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to cast somebody with a visible difference as a villainous character, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s very much another thing to cast somebody without a visible difference and have that added to them prosthetically. That really does reinforce the idea that that\u2019s what makes them evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Changing Faces\u2019 open letter begins: \u201cEvery year, Halloween becomes a particularly stressful time for some of those with visible differences.<\/p>\n