Fan Casting The Prime Minister in Portrait of a Lady

The elected leader of a nervous nation, facing a House of Commons hungry for answers and an intelligence apparatus fractured by internal warfare. She consults her experts in hurried whispers, weighing the counsel of a trusted spymaster against the confident certainties of a young modernizer. Her appearances are brief, but her presence is the moral anchor of the British state—a woman who knows whom to trust, and whose trust, once given, is the only authorization Bond ultimately needs.