If Not Roberts, Who?
PoorMansJB
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Most if not all of us know alot of casting trivia surrounding the films (e.g., Raquel Welch was first cast as Domino, Lois Chiles was first approached for XXX, etc.). It's interesting, though, that with as much debate as we've had over the casting of Tanya Roberts, I can't think that I've heard any other name in connection with Stacy. Anyone know who else was considered? Was anyone else considered?
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@merseytart
The more oft told story about AVTAK is that Stacy's final characterization was largely the result of Glen not being able to stand Roberts. Regardless, I can't imagine Roberts being a sole candidate; EON doesn't seem to work that way.
Really? I never knew that at all!
Anyway, I also heard that Roberts was prima donna like on the set, including her refusing to film the mine scene while not wearing a thinly cut construction suit. The Roger's line "pity you couldnt find one that fits" was ad libbed, but Glen kept it in anyway.
As for another actress, somehow I dont think it would have changed too much. The part was poorly written and was in dire need of script polish.
JFF, what if they had promoted Alison Doody to the leading lady role, how would you feel about that?
Stacey Sutton Fan... SSF... doesn't have the same ring to it. If Jenny was May Day's part instead I would've changed my tune, but I love Alison so much when she plays a cold Nazi-type!
Mmm... so I'd still be JFF, and Stacey would still be there, but if she wasn't I'd hope Jenny would be the main girl and Stacey would be the Jenny role.
well, at least you let her in the BIMBOS category.
she is the Best Bimbo because... i have no idea if she is a wonderfull actress, but her portrayal as Staycy (the character even in the script was as dull as she make her look like) she makes it real, so if she acted, that is the best bimbo performance in a lot of time.
Which it drives me to the worst bimbo part: i haven't see this movie a lot, but i just don't recall something rigth from her... i just didn't saw her doing anything interesting.
it also depend of your type of bimbo ranking: more bimbo makes her a better or a worse bimbo than... i don't know, Tiffany Case? is your number one bimbo in that position for being extremely bimbo or because she is a bimbo but did something right?
About Prisilla, i really had no clue at all
NO! Tanya Roberts was great as Stacey, people just can't appreciate it. Stacey was strong, hardworking and determined but she was also a spoiled princess, not accustomed to international intrigue or have thugs trying to raid her house.
All in all, Stacey Sutton was your average American working woman who was going about her day until some Nazi experiment tycoon decided to buy out her shares to her company Sutton Oil. Not used to the business end of things, Stacey doesn't really know how to combat this but tries the best she can and still tries to fight the issue which costs her all her furniture, showing what a determined woman she is.
Stacey: I'd sell everything and live in a tent before I give up.
While Roberts isn't the best actress, this line is delivered superbly by her and afterward she tosses the check aside. This money could have been used to restore her house, do many things for her, but she wanted her family legacy to live on and didn't want this jerk impugning on it.
She has never had a man in life that can protect her as Bond could and while they did it in the shower at the end, their relationship was more platonic than anything and seemed more like good friends. She also doesn't know how to fight, but that doesn't mean she won't try, she tries to fight the thugs in her house, fails, but still crushes their morale with a crushing blow by her grandfather's ashes!
She breaks into City Hall and almost gets barbequed in the elevator shaft, which, anyone here wouldn't just stand there pleasantly while the man who has protected you ever since all the ordeals have happened LEAVE you and nearly ABANDON you in a burning elevator shaft on a loose cable. He saves her life and she helps him get away on the firetruck, proving that she's also loyal to her cause, even though Bond nearly left her for dead (though he had every intention of helping her, I'd be a bit nervous if he left too since I have no escape-a-burning-elevator-shaft skills).
Stacey is also strong in the sense that when women immediately jump into bed with him, she flat out rejects him while he's trying to get information from her AND bed her at the same time. She lets loose nothing important as she has the brains to know that she doesn't know him and he could be very well a "Zorin stooge".
Bond: Oh by the way, you didn't say what part of the states you come from, miss?
Stacey: No, I didn't.
Bond: Now I shall be all alone.
Stacey: (sarcastically) Oh I doubt that.
People don't see how well Roberts did with the role, in my opinion, Stacey is a VERY well written character in Bond movies, and in fact, Christmas Jones was a similar one (She was originally a Christmas Island native unsatisfied with the treatment of the land and was therefore cleaning it up by becoming a nuclear physicist, like how Stacey became a geologist to take over Sutton Oil when the time came)
So Tanya Roberts, your performance may be dragged through the mud, but the performance will always have a fan in me.
1. Fullerton was the better actress.
2. She had more chemistry with Roger Moore in their brief scenes together than was the case between Moore and Roberts.
3. In terms of age and appearance Fullerton would have been more credible as the leading Bond girl opposite Moore.
But the love scene in the end, of both FYEO and AVTAK seemed more like a "Thank you for saving my life" rather than a "I LOVE YOU JAMES!" type deal.
Stacey and Melina both seemed like his friends rather than a girl he could fall in love with and other things.
Its funny, I always thought it was a bit more father/daughter age - perhaps that could lead to some form of attraction.