One is married to one and the other is the daughter of an assassin.
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They both are, because the movie in some ways deals with-how can I put this delicately?-the question of: Can you escape, if you’ve done bad things, can you ever escape them on some level? Both the women are connected to assassins. It’s so difficult to talk about these things before they’re released without giving anything away. Spectre is a bit of a departure in that it features three Bond women: the English actress Naomie Harris returning for her second go-round as Eve Moneypenny, former field agent now sitting behind the late Lois Maxwell’s old desk the Italian actress Monica Bellucci ( Irreversible and the two Matrix sequels) and the French actress Léa Seydoux ( Inglourious Basterds, Blue Is the Warmest Color).īruce Handy: To what extent is the traditional “Bond girl” paradigm still in place? And how does either adhering to that or defying it affect the writing and casting of the movie?ĭoes either one of the two new actresses fall into the “bad Bond girl” role?
I recently had the opportunity to discuss the Bond woman-or girl sexist nomenclature dies hard, alas, at least in conversation between two middle-aged men-with writer-director Sam Mendes, who was putting the finishing touches on the upcoming Spectre, the 24th “canonical” Bond film and Mendes’s second, following 2012’s Skyfall, the series’ most lucrative yet. Traditionally there have been two: a good-ish one, who is romanced and discarded by 007 early on, and a bad-ish, more intriguing one, who is eventually persuaded to join Her Majesty’s team and who often survives long enough to see the JAMES BOND WILL RETURN memo in the closing credits. So, the “Bond woman”: hers remains, perhaps, the most narrowly prescribed role in movie history. The term “Bond girl” is at least four decades past its sell-by date.
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