Lashana Lynch has previously played a character in a book-based franchise (James Bond). She is the first black woman to play a 007 agent. There has been negative, racist remark from fans about her playing this role. Here is Lashana Lynch's response to the negative feedback:
“White patriarchy will always have something to say when it comes to things like that,” she says. “But the magnitude of it was ridiculous. For me, none of it is real. As soon as my phone is off or I’m out of the app, it quite literally doesn’t exist any more.”
“the fact that you have to celebrate it, like it’s this New Age thing, like black people have just arrived on the planet. That’s what annoys me about the idea of Idris Elba being ‘the black Bond’... For my community, those are really big things, but for the world, I need you to not care about it.”
Source material: Yahoo.com