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Screen Tests For Bond 20 Girls
12th January 2002
Ready for inspection 007... The Bond girl hopefuls are still squeezing in their appearances...
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Due to Pierce Brosnan having other commitments, EON have substituted
007 for the latest Bond girl screentests. Colin Salmon, who has
played MI6 aide "Robinson" in the last two films ("Tomorrow
Never Dies", "The World Is Not Enough")
has stepped in to Bond's shoes to help out.
EON's usual routine for testing prospective Bond girls has fallen
in to the usual pattern of a short mock-publicity photo shoot
and a screentest love scene: Tatiana Romanova's seduction of Bond
in his hotel room from the second film in the series "From
Russia With Love".
"I really enjoyed the audition with Saffron Burrows,"
he says, "and Salma Hayek was great. Sophie Ellis Bextor
came along too but I can't tell you any more it would be more
than my job's worth."
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Movie buffs may recall that Saffron Burrows and Salma Hayek
both starred in the 2000 picture "Timecode"
written and directed by Mike Figgis. London born Burrows,
27, then went on to co-star with Kate Winslet in "The
World Is Not Enough" director Michael Apted's next
movie, "Enigma".
Left: Saffron Burrows
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35 year-old and Mexican born actress Salma Hayek is still
looking for her first blockbuster role to move her up the
Hollywood hot list, after the relative flops of her films
such as "Wild Wild West" and "From Dusk Till
Dawn".
Right: Salma Hayek
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the other hand, has no acting credentials
to date, and fans may be more likely to link her name to
the title song performance, rather than the role of the
leading lady.
Left: Sophie Ellis-Bextor |
EON have scheduled a 40th Anniversary press conference for Friday
January 11th at Pinewood Studios.
