By One of the many exciting things about the rapidly coalescing Bond 25 - more exciting than Bond maybe spending some time in a Land Rover, and roughly as exciting as Rami Malek playing the villain - is the fact that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been brought in to punch up the script a bit.
What does that actually entail though? Well, Waller-Bridge has told the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast that part of her remit on the rewrites has been to make the film's women "feel like real people".
"I got the call from Daniel and Barbara Broccoli and they'd been talking about it and thought it would work," Waller-Bridge explained. "And so I came to meet them and it's really exciting. The film they've got is such an exciting story. It's just been a joy to work on."
Waller-Bridge was asked if she would be bringing more of a feminist bent to the script, which was originally written by longtime Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and reportedly given tweaks by The Bourne Ultimatum's Scott Z Burns and Daniel Craig himself. "We'll see what I can sneak in," she replied. "But it was mainly just making them feel like real people. Which they do in previous films - I think Daniel's films have had really fantastic Bond girls, so it's really just keeping it up there."
This isn't the first enormo-franchise that Waller-Bridge has been involved in of course, having been the best thing in Solo: A Star Wars Story as chippy droid L3-37. That doesn't mean that she's necessarily taking it in her stride, though.
"I think I'm still processing it," Waller-Bridge said of being headhunted for a film institution like Bond. "It might be something I don't process until, like, way after. I remember after I finished Star Wars, it was about a week after I finished it and I was just on a bus and I just suddenly went, 'Oh my God'. I called my sister and was like, 'you know I was in Star Wars?'"
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