10 Women Who Should Be The Next James Bond

3. Charlotte Riley

Suspension of disbelief is important for any film, and I'm going to have to kindly request that anyone who suffered the misfortune of London Has Fallen suspend their disbelief that one of its cast should ever work again. You'd think, that given Charlotte Riley is a wonderful actor who was cast as an MI6 agent in it, that London Has Fallen would be all I'd have to point at to demonstrate her Bond suitability... but I can't. It was terrible.

She was definitely the standout performer, and in a film with better scripting, direction, motivation and story-lining her part might actually have worked as a launching pad. Sadly not though - and even sadder was the piss-weak bleeding-heart role she got in the somehow worse In The Heart Of The Sea - so it's to Peaky Blinders that we're going to have to showcase her abilities.

And bloody hell lads, how good is she in Peaky Blinders? While it's (still) undeniably the Cillian Murphy show, Riley's arrival as the love interest has added yet more vigour and presence to a show that was already carrying the torch for its portrayal of genuinely engaging female characters. Thus she's probably destined fora career on the production line of "strong women" that Hollywood uses to feel better about its inherent sexism, so what better way to tip the entire concept in the sea than to cast her as Bond.