# What if...Bond was different?

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**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-if-bond-was-different/960 "2018-09-13T17:54:28Z")
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### Author: ![MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/mrkiddwint/32/1772_2.png) [@MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MrKiddWint)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-if-bond-was-different/960/20 "2018-09-13T18:01:32Z")

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> [@News on NO TIME TO DIE (no spoilers)](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/news-on-no-time-to-die-no-spoilers/33/3512):
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> EON where okay with an Irish Bond, and hired him twice before the ceasefire in 94, and Britain was the target of the IRA (as Skyfall, and Dynamite’s James Bond:M, sought to remind) indeed there is still bad blood in some areas regarding partition but EON never shied away from casting an Irish actor as Bond because of it.

This is where my ignorance kicks in and I need help in understanding. For me, an Irish actor is still a White actor. Hiring a brown- or black-skinned actor is in a different realm for me since the history of how White societies have treated Black societies has some similarities to, but major differences from, how British society treated the Irish.

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