James Bond Has 'Nothing to Worry About' Despite Tariffs on Non-U.S. Movies, Trump Insists: 'And You Know, Sean Connery Was a Friend of Mine'

U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted James Bond has "nothing to interest about" contempt the ongoing tariff war.

This week, the U.S. and the UK signed a commercialized woody and arsenic portion of the announcement, Trump said he’d see lowering levies connected UK-made films, contempt imposing 100% taxes connected overseas movies.

The 007 franchise is often filmed astatine England’s celebrated Pinewood Studios, but it is simply a globe-trotting production, with exotic locations portion of the entreaty of each movie.

Answering a question posed by The Times, Trump said his medication planned to person a abstracted treatment connected tariffs connected UK films, specifically, and added that helium was friends with Sean Connery, who famously played James Bond from 1962 to 1983.

Here’s Trump’s punctuation successful full:

“As you cognize we’re putting tariffs connected that peculiar movie set, the movie makers, and we’re going to beryllium doing immoderate tariffs to get that due to the fact that a batch of them person near this country. They each unrecorded here, the wealth comes from here, everything comes from here, but they marque them successful different countries. So, we’re gonna bash thing to bring them back, possibly to a ample extent.

“But James Bond has thing to interest about, that I tin archer you. And you know, Sean Connery was a person of mine. Sean Connery was liable for my getting zoning successful Aberdeen. He said, ‘Let the bloody bloke physique his play courses.’ I was similar 4 years into the process, and it was intolerable successful Aberdeen. He conscionable stood up 1 time and helium said that. As soon arsenic helium said that I got the approvals successful astir 2 minutes. He was a large guy, Sean Connery.”

Trump pointed to James Bond arsenic having 'nothing to interest about' amid tariff concern. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Earlier this week, Trump told reporters astatine the White House that helium intended to conscionable with movie manufacture executives for their thoughts connected his connection for 100% tariffs connected non-U.S. movies.

"I’m not looking to wounded the industry, I privation to assistance the industry," Trump said, according to CNBC. The President added: “I privation to marque definite they’re blessed with it due to the fact that we’re each astir jobs.”

Trump's program to enforce tariffs connected films produced extracurricular the U.S. was met with astonishment and disorder from manufacture insiders, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

The White House has since said that nary determination has been made. Trump's Hollywood envoy, Oscar victor Jon Voight, and Voight's producing spouse Steven Paul person reportedly submitted to Trump a “comprehensive” program to rescue the amusement industry.

Jon Voight and Steven Paul antecedently teamed for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 and Dracula: The Dark Prince.

As for James Bond, it was announced that Amazon had assumed afloat originative power implicit 007 earlier this year, though we’re nary person to knowing who volition play the celebrated spy successful whatever’s next. James Bond volition reportedly stay a antheral and inactive beryllium British oregon from the Commonwealth, however.

In February, Amazon brag Jeff Bezos asked fans who they’d prime arsenic the adjacent James bond, and the reply was large and clear.

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