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Tabitha · 13th December 2002, 05:14 PM

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Buffy Bonding?
Gellar makes play for 007 role
Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has rather surprisingly thrown her hat in the ring for the role of the next James Bond. The sleek and sexy vampire killing machine said, ''I want to see more women action stars. I don't see why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Bronsan retires I'm going to be the next Bond.' Leaving aside the problems that a pint-sized American woman might have portraying a gruff, quintessentially British and very male - super-spy, it might be argued that Halle Berry has already made a pretty good play to take over the licence to kill. After her successful outing as Jinx in Die Another Day, it has been rumoured that Berry will be given her own franchise. Welsh wonder Catherine Zeta Jones has, intriguingly, also been suggested in the past for the role of a 'Jane Bond' character.

Highlander II · 13th December 2002, 10:26 PM

Well....

there is a plus - it would be better for SMG to be Bond than for Adrian Paul to be Bond -- (I have serious doubts about AP's ability to be anything other than Duncan MacLeod - sorry) --

but - I still can really only see Bond as a man.

Why don't they, instead of (if they're serious) working with an existing 'super-spy' - make a movie / story about a female super-spy in its own right? just make a whole other series - b/c 'James' really isn't that great a name for a woman

Tabitha · 14th December 2002, 02:48 AM

:lol:

Actually, the talk of Halle Berry's character being 'spun off' is kinda bugging me. Now if they were talking about doing that for Michelle Yeoh's character in Tommorrow Never Dies, then that would be a whole 'nother story. Halle was bland bland bland in Bond, but Yeoh was great.

I think SMG's comment was probably more in jest than anything else, but it was a strange idea - can you imagine it? I mean, I find it difficult to imagine Bond as anything other than quintessentially British. I can't see her pulling off that angle at all.

I *could* see Bond as a woman, but I think they would have to find someone who could pull off much of the 'Britishness' of the character. Don't ask me to quantify "britishness" because I have no idea how to, but do you get my drift?

markpud · 16th January 2003, 07:23 PM

lol, strange idea... As much as I love Sarah, I can't see her as a Bond... It sounds like more of her typical off the cuff joke type remark to me!

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13th December 2002, 10:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
Highlander II There can be only one!! Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 9,630	Well.... there is a plus - it would be better for SMG to be Bond than for Adrian Paul to be Bond -- (I have serious doubts about AP's ability to be anything other than Duncan MacLeod - sorry) -- but - I still can really only see Bond as a man. Why don't they, instead of (if they're serious) working with an existing 'super-spy' - make a movie / story about a female super-spy in its own right? just make a whole other series - b/c 'James' really isn't that great a name for a woman

14th December 2002, 02:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tabitha Save Angel! Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,636	:lol: Actually, the talk of Halle Berry's character being 'spun off' is kinda bugging me. Now if they were talking about doing that for Michelle Yeoh's character in Tommorrow Never Dies, then that would be a whole 'nother story. Halle was bland bland bland in Bond, but Yeoh was great. I think SMG's comment was probably more in jest than anything else, but it was a strange idea - can you imagine it? I mean, I find it difficult to imagine Bond as anything other than quintessentially British. I can't see her pulling off that angle at all. I could see Bond as a woman, but I think they would have to find someone who could pull off much of the 'Britishness' of the character. Don't ask me to quantify "britishness" because I have no idea how to, but do you get my drift?

16th January 2003, 07:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
markpud Retired super-mod-erator! Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 4,739	lol, strange idea... As much as I love Sarah, I can't see her as a Bond... It sounds like more of her typical off the cuff joke type remark to me!