Fun Eva Green Interview
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The Guardian Unlimited's website just posted a pre-BAFTAs interview with Eva Green. She has a lot to say about the awards and being in a Bond film, and a lot of what she has to say is very revealing--and downright hilarious. Sometimes I think that Eva would be a great person with whom to have a drink and a laugh (and what would follow would be interesting as well). Anyway, here's the Bond-related stuff:
We meet to discuss Green's nomination for the Bafta rising star award, a gong last year presented to James McAvoy. "In France we have the Césars, but I think the Baftas are much more serious. So when the nomination was for me in a Bond film, it's a bit like a joke." Oh, Eva - surely not! "No! I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.". . .
We only have half an hour before Green must leave to weekend with her parents in Paris's 17th arrondissement, so questions come as fast as an Aston Martin tearing through the Montenegran corniches. Was being in a Bond film beneath you? "Not at all. In France, it's just not a big deal, whereas here every man wants to be Bond." I counter: I'd rather be Marcel Proust. "Really? I thought I was weird."
But surely the threat of appearing in a seemingly ailing British franchise must have been a worry? "No, I just read the script and thought, 'This is good.'" Weren't you worried about the flak that Craig got for being "James Bland": too short, too wimpy etc? "That completely passed me by. He got all the mad tabloids - I got nothing. Actually that's not quite true. I got very angry when people kept asking me, 'What's it feel like to be a Bond girl?' As if I was soup."
The only time Green got stuck on the fuzzy end of the tabloids' lollipop was when low-brow French mag Voici published photos of Green fooling around in between shots on the Casino Royale set in the Bahamas. "I'm a little bit crazy, you know? And so, between shots, I was pulling silly faces, which appeared in the magazine. They said I was going to get fired and I can't act." My mother and friends called me and said 'Is this true?' It was very funny, ridiculous but funny."
Did you feel that it was ungallant of Craig to have bigger boobs than you? She is heroically unperturbed by my rude question. "Well, he is the Bond girl, not me. He's the one who comes out of the sea with his top off." Didn't you feel envious? "No, not at all. I've been nude in a film before [Bertolucci's The Dreamers, of which more later] and found it very troubling, so I was quite glad not to be in this film."
Indeed, Green fought to keep her clothes on in Casino Royale. "In the shower scene - you remember? - they wanted me to strip down to my panties. We had a good fight about that. I used to go to Daniel and ask for his support." It was a worthwhile fight: for Vesper Lynd to strip at a moment in the film when she is supposed to be horribly upset about the violent world behind 007's sartorially pristine facade would have been even more fatuous than many of the fatuous things for which Bond films have become renowned.
We meet to discuss Green's nomination for the Bafta rising star award, a gong last year presented to James McAvoy. "In France we have the Césars, but I think the Baftas are much more serious. So when the nomination was for me in a Bond film, it's a bit like a joke." Oh, Eva - surely not! "No! I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.". . .
We only have half an hour before Green must leave to weekend with her parents in Paris's 17th arrondissement, so questions come as fast as an Aston Martin tearing through the Montenegran corniches. Was being in a Bond film beneath you? "Not at all. In France, it's just not a big deal, whereas here every man wants to be Bond." I counter: I'd rather be Marcel Proust. "Really? I thought I was weird."
But surely the threat of appearing in a seemingly ailing British franchise must have been a worry? "No, I just read the script and thought, 'This is good.'" Weren't you worried about the flak that Craig got for being "James Bland": too short, too wimpy etc? "That completely passed me by. He got all the mad tabloids - I got nothing. Actually that's not quite true. I got very angry when people kept asking me, 'What's it feel like to be a Bond girl?' As if I was soup."
The only time Green got stuck on the fuzzy end of the tabloids' lollipop was when low-brow French mag Voici published photos of Green fooling around in between shots on the Casino Royale set in the Bahamas. "I'm a little bit crazy, you know? And so, between shots, I was pulling silly faces, which appeared in the magazine. They said I was going to get fired and I can't act." My mother and friends called me and said 'Is this true?' It was very funny, ridiculous but funny."
Did you feel that it was ungallant of Craig to have bigger boobs than you? She is heroically unperturbed by my rude question. "Well, he is the Bond girl, not me. He's the one who comes out of the sea with his top off." Didn't you feel envious? "No, not at all. I've been nude in a film before [Bertolucci's The Dreamers, of which more later] and found it very troubling, so I was quite glad not to be in this film."
Indeed, Green fought to keep her clothes on in Casino Royale. "In the shower scene - you remember? - they wanted me to strip down to my panties. We had a good fight about that. I used to go to Daniel and ask for his support." It was a worthwhile fight: for Vesper Lynd to strip at a moment in the film when she is supposed to be horribly upset about the violent world behind 007's sartorially pristine facade would have been even more fatuous than many of the fatuous things for which Bond films have become renowned.
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Like you'd turn any of the others down
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You can vote for Eva Green as the BAFTA rising star by clicking on the link below. The other nominees are Ben Whishaw, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris.
http://www1.orange.co.uk/entertainment/film/OrangeRisingStarAward.php