Investigating the Bond Girl Curse.
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This is taken from mi6 (http://www.mi6forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=51384 thanks to barryt007, i think it is interesting and copy pasted it)
Just found this interesting article on Virgin Media,showing the good old 'Bond Girl curse that has happened to these ladies :
1.Halle Berry
Before emerging from the sea as the fittingly-named Jinx in Die Another Day, Berry had won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a plum role as Storm in the X Men franchise. After that ghastly Bond movie, her life was frequently shaken and stirred. She broke her arm filming Gothika, endured a second divorce, picked up a Razzie for Catwoman and discovered that anything she made without an 'X' in the title was ignored.
2.Denise Richards
Bond Girl Curse + Millennium Bug = Epic Fail. The ludicrous decision to cast busty airhead Richards as nuclear physicist Dr Christmas Jones in 1999's The World Is Not Enough signalled the end of her ascent to stardom. Whereas she once impressed in Starship Troopers and Wild Things, she became tabloid fodder due to a destructive relationship with Charlie Sheen, a desperate Playboy shoot and a tacky reality show.
3.Barbara Bach
Her looks may have won her the role as Russian agent Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me, but her acting left a lot to be desired. Despite attempts to show off her thespian credentials in post-Bond flops like Force 10 From Navarone and Caveman, her career descended into a series of Playboy shoots. Bach gave up 'acting' in 1986 and settled down with hubby Ringo Starr.
4.Izabella Scorupco
The former model impressed in Goldeneye as the assertive programmer Natalya Simonova. She then must have sought career advice from someone with all the benevolence of Blofeld, as she turned down the female leads in LA Confidential and The Mask Of Zorro. What did she do instead? Vertical Limit, Reign Of Fire and Exorcist: The Beginning. She has since plunged off the radar in a similar fashion to Alex Trevelyan.
5.Lois Chiles
Is it any wonder this actress was never taken seriously once the name Holly Goodhead was emblazoned on the top of her CV? After portraying the CIA Agent in 1979's Moonraker she left the acting world for three years following the tragic death of her younger brother and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. Her only notable role after Bond was as JR's lover in one season of Dallas.
6.Shirley Eaton
The obscurity endured by Eaton after her iconic turn as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger is summed up by one popular (but totally false) rumour – that the actress died from 'skin suffocation' while filming her character's golden-painted demise. In 1969, just five years after playing the ill-fated spy, she opted to focus on her family rather than face more fruitless auditions.
7.Tanya Roberts
The career of the former Charlie's Angel star danced into the fire after playing sexy geologist Stacey in A View To A Kill. Her canoodling with the near-decrepit Roger Moore in 1985 was certainly a sign of things to come, as shedding her clothes in a procession of tawdry erotic thrillers (sample title – 1993's 'Sins Of Desire') was the only way to pay the bills.
8.Jill St.John
As a talented youngster, Jill St John was snapped up by Universal Pictures to a contract aged just 16. Several high profile roles ensued, along with a Golden Globe nomination in 1963. Her career defining moment came eight years later as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever, but from then on it was a downward spiral into TV movies and guest roles in The Love Boat and Dempsey And Makepeace.
9.Tanya Mallet
With one hurl of Oddjob's steel-rimmed hat in Goldfinger, both the life of revenge-fuelled Tilly Masterson and the big screen career of the actress portraying her were effectively over. Unhappy with the meager wages and physical restrictions imposed on her during filming, Mallet returned to the modelling world and was rarely heard from again. Nowadays, she occasionally participates in Bond-related events and signings.
10.Lana Wood
The busty actress briefly emerged from the shadow of her more successful older sister Natalie as the opportunistic siren Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever. Another big project proved elusive and a staple of mundane TV movies followed. Tragedy struck in 1981 when Natalie drowned (eerily, just like O'Toole) and Lana published a controversial memoir four years later that led to an estrangement from her own family.
11.Mie Hama
Before lending her physical presence (if not vocals) to the role of Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice, Hama was a darling of Japanese cinema. Unable to secure work in the Western world due to her poor English, she returned home to find the nation's movie industry in turmoil. She later became an environmental activist, so at least she found her own voice in the end.
12.Maryam D'Abo
The diminutive blonde made her mark as Kara in The Living Daylights by plunging down a mountain with Timothy Dalton on a cello. But she was soon presumably relying on public transport as her career dissipated into a series of guest roles in The Red Shoe Diaries and Murder, She Wrote. In 2007 she suffered a brain haemorrhage from which she thankfully recovered.
13.Daniela Bianchi
Three years after landing second spot at the 1960 Miss World contest, Bianchi was signed up as Russian agent Tatiana and tasked with seducing James Bond in From Russia With Love. A car crash during filming wounded her face, but her voice was the real problem as it had to be dubbed. Bianchi was forced to seek work in obscure Italian and French movies and retired from acting in 1970.
14.Molly Peters
As Patricia Fearing - the voluptuous nurse who quite literally gives Bond a helping hand at a health farm in Thunderball – Peters was the first Bond girl to take her clothes off on screen. That distinction proved to be her career highlight, as just two years later in 1967 a reported row with her agent saw Peters leave the movie industry – never to return.
15.Maud Adams
The Swedish actress received a double dose of the curse by playing two different Bond girls. Her turns as Andrea in The Man With The Golden Gun and the title role in Octopussy led to zilch, unless you count her role as an extra in A View To A Kill as career progression. Paradoxically though, the double curse became her fortune as she now plies her trade talking about it.
Any comments out there peeps ?
Just found this interesting article on Virgin Media,showing the good old 'Bond Girl curse that has happened to these ladies :
1.Halle Berry
Before emerging from the sea as the fittingly-named Jinx in Die Another Day, Berry had won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a plum role as Storm in the X Men franchise. After that ghastly Bond movie, her life was frequently shaken and stirred. She broke her arm filming Gothika, endured a second divorce, picked up a Razzie for Catwoman and discovered that anything she made without an 'X' in the title was ignored.
2.Denise Richards
Bond Girl Curse + Millennium Bug = Epic Fail. The ludicrous decision to cast busty airhead Richards as nuclear physicist Dr Christmas Jones in 1999's The World Is Not Enough signalled the end of her ascent to stardom. Whereas she once impressed in Starship Troopers and Wild Things, she became tabloid fodder due to a destructive relationship with Charlie Sheen, a desperate Playboy shoot and a tacky reality show.
3.Barbara Bach
Her looks may have won her the role as Russian agent Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me, but her acting left a lot to be desired. Despite attempts to show off her thespian credentials in post-Bond flops like Force 10 From Navarone and Caveman, her career descended into a series of Playboy shoots. Bach gave up 'acting' in 1986 and settled down with hubby Ringo Starr.
4.Izabella Scorupco
The former model impressed in Goldeneye as the assertive programmer Natalya Simonova. She then must have sought career advice from someone with all the benevolence of Blofeld, as she turned down the female leads in LA Confidential and The Mask Of Zorro. What did she do instead? Vertical Limit, Reign Of Fire and Exorcist: The Beginning. She has since plunged off the radar in a similar fashion to Alex Trevelyan.
5.Lois Chiles
Is it any wonder this actress was never taken seriously once the name Holly Goodhead was emblazoned on the top of her CV? After portraying the CIA Agent in 1979's Moonraker she left the acting world for three years following the tragic death of her younger brother and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. Her only notable role after Bond was as JR's lover in one season of Dallas.
6.Shirley Eaton
The obscurity endured by Eaton after her iconic turn as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger is summed up by one popular (but totally false) rumour – that the actress died from 'skin suffocation' while filming her character's golden-painted demise. In 1969, just five years after playing the ill-fated spy, she opted to focus on her family rather than face more fruitless auditions.
7.Tanya Roberts
The career of the former Charlie's Angel star danced into the fire after playing sexy geologist Stacey in A View To A Kill. Her canoodling with the near-decrepit Roger Moore in 1985 was certainly a sign of things to come, as shedding her clothes in a procession of tawdry erotic thrillers (sample title – 1993's 'Sins Of Desire') was the only way to pay the bills.
8.Jill St.John
As a talented youngster, Jill St John was snapped up by Universal Pictures to a contract aged just 16. Several high profile roles ensued, along with a Golden Globe nomination in 1963. Her career defining moment came eight years later as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever, but from then on it was a downward spiral into TV movies and guest roles in The Love Boat and Dempsey And Makepeace.
9.Tanya Mallet
With one hurl of Oddjob's steel-rimmed hat in Goldfinger, both the life of revenge-fuelled Tilly Masterson and the big screen career of the actress portraying her were effectively over. Unhappy with the meager wages and physical restrictions imposed on her during filming, Mallet returned to the modelling world and was rarely heard from again. Nowadays, she occasionally participates in Bond-related events and signings.
10.Lana Wood
The busty actress briefly emerged from the shadow of her more successful older sister Natalie as the opportunistic siren Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever. Another big project proved elusive and a staple of mundane TV movies followed. Tragedy struck in 1981 when Natalie drowned (eerily, just like O'Toole) and Lana published a controversial memoir four years later that led to an estrangement from her own family.
11.Mie Hama
Before lending her physical presence (if not vocals) to the role of Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice, Hama was a darling of Japanese cinema. Unable to secure work in the Western world due to her poor English, she returned home to find the nation's movie industry in turmoil. She later became an environmental activist, so at least she found her own voice in the end.
12.Maryam D'Abo
The diminutive blonde made her mark as Kara in The Living Daylights by plunging down a mountain with Timothy Dalton on a cello. But she was soon presumably relying on public transport as her career dissipated into a series of guest roles in The Red Shoe Diaries and Murder, She Wrote. In 2007 she suffered a brain haemorrhage from which she thankfully recovered.
13.Daniela Bianchi
Three years after landing second spot at the 1960 Miss World contest, Bianchi was signed up as Russian agent Tatiana and tasked with seducing James Bond in From Russia With Love. A car crash during filming wounded her face, but her voice was the real problem as it had to be dubbed. Bianchi was forced to seek work in obscure Italian and French movies and retired from acting in 1970.
14.Molly Peters
As Patricia Fearing - the voluptuous nurse who quite literally gives Bond a helping hand at a health farm in Thunderball – Peters was the first Bond girl to take her clothes off on screen. That distinction proved to be her career highlight, as just two years later in 1967 a reported row with her agent saw Peters leave the movie industry – never to return.
15.Maud Adams
The Swedish actress received a double dose of the curse by playing two different Bond girls. Her turns as Andrea in The Man With The Golden Gun and the title role in Octopussy led to zilch, unless you count her role as an extra in A View To A Kill as career progression. Paradoxically though, the double curse became her fortune as she now plies her trade talking about it.
Any comments out there peeps ?
Comments
http://apbateman.com
I am throwing it at the wall. (Splat)
Look! The mud has stuck to the wall!
(Cut to the wall, which has one stuck dollop, and about thirty on the ground.)
The film / tv industry is a nightmare - esp if you have had a high profile role and there is nothing more high profile thatn Bond. Many od the womn listed have had personal matters to deal with, and its unfortunate that if an actor or actress is in a notable film then they disappear - its assumed they have fallen off the radar. - Many of them focus on their stage careers instead, or are ready for something else and go for a career change.
They say that all that glitter's isn't gold. - In film production the gold is never actually Gold in the first place! - That is a tough industry to work in. - Not to mention the press will report every financial crisis, divorce, and fart if you are a well known face.
Counter examples - Honor Blackman, Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, Famke Janssen, Michelle Yeoh, Rosa Pike, Eva Green and Gemma Arterton! :007)
Apart from Judi Dench and Gemma Arterton, are you sure all of those actresses have been in bigger films than their respective Bond's?
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No - because that is not the point I am making. I am simply saying the fact they may "drop off the radar" is not necessarily a bad thing for them, or their career choices. - The nature of the topic seems to imply its been hell in a hand basket for all of them since Bond? (Shrugs)
That Italian actress who played Fiona in TB was denied roled from a big name Italian director (can't remember, was it the classic Italian horror guy?) because of her association with Bond.
I do think the old style Bond flicks did away with that sense of mystery and power that an actress needs.
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Some of Brosnans Post Bond movies became very famous. Dalton was never really popular in the movies but he is a theatre man. I think that if you go theatres in Britain, he is a big name and a very good reputation. Roger Moore almost retired after Bond. That I think was his own choice.
If you are established before ie Honor, Carole Bouquet, Jane Seymour, Eva Green and Diana Rigg then you tend to get work afterwards.
If you were a model/actress and this was your first big break ie Britt Ekland, Maryam D'Abo, Claudine Auger, Talisa Soto etc then you struggle.