Cary Fukunaga, the current director of James Bond’s latest film “No Time to Die,” has recently claimed in an interview that Sean Connery’s portrayal of the iconic 007 character was “basically” a rapist.

Fukunaga, who graduated from NYU and is known for his work on “True Detective” and “Beasts of No Nation,” cited the questionable s** scenes in the classic 1960s Bond movies and discussed how he plans to update the famous British spy for the #MeToo era.

During the interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Fukunaga asked, “Is it Thunderball or Goldfinger where, like, basically Sean Connery’s character rapes a woman?” He was referring to two of the six Bond movies that starred Connery, who passed away last October.

Fukunaga noted the female character saying “No, no, no,” while Bond continued to insist “Yes, yes, yes.” The director added that such scenes would not be acceptable today.

Fukunaga seemed to be referring to the 1965 movie “Thunderball,” in which Connery’s Bond forcibly kissed a nurse who had rejected his advances.

Later in the movie, Bond said he would only keep quiet about information that could cost her job at “a price.” The nurse played by Molly Peters responded with concern, and Connery’s Bond pushed her into a sauna and took off her clothes, saying “Oh, yes.”

Barbara Broccoli, who has produced Bond films since 1995, praised Fukunaga for bringing Bond up-to-date in the upcoming “No Time to Die,” which will be Daniel Craig’s final time playing the suave spy.

She expressed gratitude that people are now coming around to accepting that previous sexism and questionable s** scenes in older movies are no longer acceptable.

“Bond is a character who was written in 1952 and the first film [“Dr.

No”] came out in 1962.

He’s got a long history, and the history of the past is very different to the way he is being portrayed now,” Broccoli said.

Fukunaga expressed excitement for Craig’s 007 portrayal because of “how much more raw and brutal and brooding he is.” The director prefers this version of Bond to the one portrayed by Connery.

“You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person.

But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world,” Fukunaga told The Hollywood Reporter.

“It’s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.”

Craig’s last film as Bond, “No Time to Die,” will be in US cinemas starting from October 8.

However, his replacement has yet to be announced.