Actress Gemma Arterton found international fame as the disastrous agent Strawberry Fields opposite Daniel Craig’s James Bond in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace. But in a new interview with the Sun, the British star says she got a shock because she was a Bond girl – a role about which she admits she has her own reservations.
“At the beginning of my career I was poor as a church mouse and I was happy to just be able to work and earn my bread,” said Arterton, who also Their best and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, told the British newspaper.
‘I still get criticism for accepting it Quantum of comfort“But I was 21, I had a student loan, and you know, it was a Bond movie,” the 34-year-old actress added.
‘But as I got older, I realized there was so much wrong with Bond women. Strawberry should have just said no, and worn flat shoes. ”
In the film – Craig’s second outing as 007 – he seduces the beautiful MI6 agent Strawberry Fields shortly after he meets her in Bolivia. The attempt is short-lived as he returns to his hotel room to see her naked body over the bed and covered with black oil.
Arterton creates an alternative ending for her character in a short story, titled Awake Bond woman, for the 2018 collection Feminists do not wear pink and other lies. In it, Strawberry refuses Bond’s progress – to write him off as a work colleague twenty years older than her – and lives to see another day, and even pulls out bad bad things.
“I decided to write a piece about what would happen after #MeToo, farm Harvey Weinstein, if my Bond girl was an awake woman,” she explained during an appearance on the Feminists do not wear pink podcast.
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