"Bond Girl is a demeaning, silly title."

[mysterydriver]

So says Former Bond...movie actress, Famke Janssen.

Quote:

Q: Do you have any advice for Bond girls going forward? Have any of them contacted you for advice?

A: No. I'm also, I suppose, object to that whole word of "Bond girl" as a woman. It's such a demeaning, silly title to give somebody. And it's definitely something that, as a woman, I have to deal with. People constantly want to remind me or an audience that I was a model or that I was a superhero or that I was a Bond girl. Any of those titles keep coming up, even now as a person who has directed her own movie. It doesn't happen with men as much. They seem to be luckier in that department. But I seem to have those things attached to my name regardless of what I do or how far away from it I am. But that's okay.

Source:
news.moviefone.com/2012/10/01/famke-janssen-goldeneye-bond-girl_n_1930430.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Warning: Taken 2 spoiler involving her character.

So, thoughts? I never saw the term as a bad thing because it just seems like a collective term to refer to Bond's love interests in those movies. Although, I suppose it could get on your nerves over time if people keep bringing it up over, and over.

[Deleted]

I guess when it's the main thing you're associated with it can get annoying. I mean, their entire existence revolves around enticing and/or trying to kill a psychotic super spy.

[Cela]

Oh look, another celebrity upset over the roles that made them famous.

[Yami Daimao]

Oct 2, 2012 18:40:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Oh look, another celebrity upset over the roles that made them famous.

I thought her role as Jean Grey made her famous?

[Hurbster]

She was the one that throttled people with her legs while getting off on it ?

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Oct 2, 2012 18:42:18 GMT -5 Yami Daimao said:

Oct 2, 2012 18:40:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Oh look, another celebrity upset over the roles that made them famous.

I thought her role as Jean Grey made her famous?

It was her role in Goldeneye that made her famous. Jean Grey made her even more famous, but it all started with Goldeneye.

[Cela]

Oct 2, 2012 18:42:18 GMT -5 Yami Daimao said:

Oct 2, 2012 18:40:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Oh look, another celebrity upset over the roles that made them famous.

I thought her role as Jean Grey made her famous?

I'd say Goldeneye put her on the map, Jean cemented her.

but she didn't seem too happy about Jean either.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Is that Taken 2 spoiler really that much of a spoiler? I deduced that simply from the trailer......

[DragonMasterP]

I guess the issue is calling them one implies that Bond pretty much owns said woman in question.

That's just my take.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

Oct 2, 2012 18:48:57 GMT -5 DragonMasterP said:

I guess the issue is calling them one implies that Bond pretty much owns said woman in question.

That's just my take.

Really? Because I've never read that into any of them, ever. If it was "Bond's girl" maybe, but nah. It's just a silly title for a bunch of silly movies. But of course, now it's gonna be overthought, overanalyzed ,and then, sterilized.

[JDviant]

I have always thought of Bond girls as 'girls in Bond movies'.

[Y2M]

She should have just crushed the interviewer with her thighs, and then call him a BIYATCH

[BoilerRoomBrawler]

Oct 2, 2012 18:46:39 GMT -5 Hurbster said:

She was the one that throttled people with her legs while getting off on it ?

Yes. Oh my yes....

Uh, er... what was I saying?

[WarChief]

I don't think she could have possibly come off as more of a snobby douche.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Oct 2, 2012 19:02:42 GMT -5 JDviant said:

I have always thought of Bond girls as 'girls in Bond movies'.

Same here.

Never thought of "Bond girl" as a girl attached to Bond, but rather a girl in the Bond film franchise. Basically, to me, the Bond in "Bond girl" isn't the character, but the series.

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

Oct 2, 2012 19:13:12 GMT -5 Koda, Master Crunchyroller said:

Oct 2, 2012 19:02:42 GMT -5 JDviant said:

I have always thought of Bond girls as 'girls in Bond movies'.

Same here.

Never thought of "Bond girl" as a girl attached to Bond, but rather a girl in the Bond film franchise. Basically, to me, the Bond in "Bond girl" isn't the character, but the series.

I dont know,calling Judi Dench a bond girl feels weird.

[Push R Truth]

Oct 2, 2012 19:38:35 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Oct 2, 2012 19:13:12 GMT -5 Koda, Master Crunchyroller said:

Same here.

Never thought of "Bond girl" as a girl attached to Bond, but rather a girl in the Bond film franchise. Basically, to me, the Bond in "Bond girl" isn't the character, but the series.

I dont know,calling Judi Dench a bond girl feels weird.

She's hot. Want to fight about it?

[mysterydriver]

Oct 2, 2012 18:47:52 GMT -5 Koda, Master Crunchyroller said:

Is that Taken 2 spoiler really that much of a spoiler? I deduced that simply from the trailer......

True, but I just wanted to be as safe as possible. I know some people on the boards will even avoid trailers if they're pumped for a movie.

[Goldenbane]

Uh, don't men get this exact same treatment all the time? Until I ran into James Rolfe's stuff, Bela Lugosi was always just Dracula to me. Heck, every male cast member on any of the Star Trek shows have to put up with this constantly. I think Harrison Ford hates the Han Solo character for this exact, bullshit reason. I don't understand at all what she's trying to say by this.

I also have to agree that when I hear the term "Bond Girl" I always think of "A girl who was a major character in a James Bond movie."

[Perpetual Nirvana]

What gets me is this part:

And it's definitely something that, as a woman, I have to deal with. People constantly want to remind me or an audience that I was a model or that I was a superhero or that I was a Bond girl. Any of those titles keep coming up, even now as a person who has directed her own movie. It doesn't happen with men as much.

Yeah, because nobody thinks of Sean Connery or Roger Moore or Pearce Brosnan for that sauve spy they used to play, do they?