![]() ![]() Bond, too, has been only human … at times. If modern-day spy heroes haven’t quite become guilt-riddled John le Carre bureaucrats, they also aren’t supermen. “I love the idea there being a strong island full of independent women who can take care of themselves,” she said.ĭaniel Craig hopes his Bond ‘is not as sexist’ I think it was a huge step in the franchise.”įunnell also has a soft spot for Maud Adams’ Octopussy, initially a jewel smuggler and Bond foe in the 1983 movie of that name, though she eventually comes over to his side. “To have someone like Judi Dench come in – she just this commands this presence without saying a line of dialogue. “You have a woman now in power, and there is this comment she has to Bond (that) the world around you has changed, but you’re still stuck in the past,” she said. But with the arrival of Judi Dench in “GoldenEye,” the producers were acknowledging a new world, says Funnell. M, Bond’s boss at MI6, was long played by men – first Bernard Lee and then Robert Brown. ![]() Michelle Yeoh, who played martial arts master Wai Lin in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” has starred in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine.” And Halle Berry went straight from winning an Oscar for “Monster’s Ball” to filming “Die Another Day’s” Jinx Johnson. Today’s audiences may know Rigg better for playing Lady Olenna Tyrell in “Game of Thrones.” Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger,” was already a match for Patrick Macnee on “The Avengers” when she was cast for the Bond role.ĭiana Rigg, whose Teresa di Vincenzo actually married Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” also co-starred on “The Avengers” with Macnee. ![]() Though Bond films have cast their share of eye candy, a number of the series’ actresses have been able to hold their own against the likes of Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig, not to mention the occasionally silly script. Here are some of the reasons he’s had to grow up: (And, oy, Holly Goodhead and Strawberry Fields.) But don’t let the bad puns fool you though the “Bond girls” sometimes have been stereotypical and clichéd, they’ve evolved as characters.īesides, until recent years, it’s not like Bond himself was given much depth beyond an iron will, good taste and a knack for getting out of tight situations. Sure, in the course of the Bond series’ 53 years, the women have had names like Tiffany Case and Pussy Galore, Vesper Lynd and Kissy Suzuki. In 1965’s “Thunderball,” for example, SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe, Bond colleague Paula Caplan and even Domino – the woman Bond romances and wins in the end – offer challenges to the hero’s masculinity. There was greater diversity in female roles,” she said. “The films of the 1960s aren’t as formulaic. (You’ll get a chance starting Friday when “Spectre,” the latest 007 adventure, is released.)Įven in the ’60s, the female leads in James Bond movies had surprising depth, observes Lisa Funnell, a professor at the University of Oklahoma and the editor of “For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond.”
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