Meet the New Spectre Bond Girls in Featurette
A new featurette reveals more about Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux as the newest Bond Grils in Spectre.
Every James Bond film comes with a certain expectation for beautiful women and seductive personalities. But rarely is that seduction executed by two of the most respected actresses of European cinema. Yet, when a filmmaker like Sam Mendes is helming the 24th big screen James Bond adventure, Spectre, that exactly what happens. Thus meet Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci as the latest official “Bond Girls.”
In the below featurette, Mendes and both of his leading ladies introduce fans in earnest to Madeleine Swann (Seydoux) and Lucia Sciarra (Bellucci). Mendes seems particularly aware that the age of Bellucci (Malena, Bram Stoker’s Dracula) hardly makes her a Bond “girl,” but considering she has been more seductive than most of them both onscreen and off for the last 20 years, it’s still perfect casting now. Apparently, Lucia has recently lost her husband to a nefarious organization (SPECTRE, perhaps) when Daniel Craig’s James Bond recruits her to be an informant. How do I suspect this will not end well for her?
Madeleine, meanwhile, is described as “feisty” and “sensitive,” but hopefully she’s more than just those archetypes since Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Color, Midnight in Paris) is playing her. Indeed, Mendes describes her as pivotal to James Bond’s life. And while her name is not Tracy, I might remind true Bond aficionados that when she is introduced in the latest Spectre trailer, the music switches to the theme from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Spectre finds 007 (Craig) at odds with MI6’s new M (Ralph Fiennes) about the best way to handle the ever-changing world of espionage and terrorism. Whereas M continues to be under siege by political realities in London, Bond is forced to finish “one last mission” from the previous M and his late mentor, played by Judi Dench. Along the way, he will discover a political conspiracy that taps back into his own history, as well as one of Ian Fleming’s most feared creations—the terrorist organization known as SPECTRE.
Spectre also stars Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Naomi Harris, Ben Whishaw, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, and Rory Kinnear. It opens Nov. 6, 2015.