C OVER STORY
A female Bonds: Meet the
women of 'Spectre'
T
hey're girls no more.The women inhabiting the
24th James Bond movie are just as complex as
the guy holding the license to kill in director Sam
Mendes' Spectre (in theaters Nov. 6). BOOM gets a
sneak peek at the dossiers for the international female
quartet who will complement Daniel Craig's 007:
LÉA SEYDOUX
Hometown: Paris
Age: 30
Also known as: Madeleine Swann
Her brush with Bond: The
doctor daughter of an assassin, Swann comes into
contact with Bond at her
Austrian clinic, and while
there is a spark between
them, their first meeting
is abrupt, to say the least.
"He comes to find her,"
Seydoux says, "and she
doesn’t want anything to
do with him." Where you've
seen her before: Mission:
Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
MONICA BELLUCCI
Hometown: Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Age: 50
Also known as: Lucia Sciarra
Her brush with Bond: Bond arrives in Italy looking for information from the widow,
whose Mafioso husband
has been murdered — a
fate that might be waiting
for her as well. "She comes
from a man’s world," Bellucci says. "But when the
attraction between them
takes place and she realizes her feminine power on
him, then she trusts him to
save her." Where you've
seen her before: The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The
Brothers Grimm (2005), Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
NAOMIE HARRIS
Hometown: London
Age: 38
Also known as: Eve Moneypenny
Her brush with Bond: Moneypenny was a young and very
green MI6 agent in 2012's
Skyfall, and the events of
the film — in which she
nearly killed our favorite
British superspy by accidentally shooting him —
"made her reassess what
she was doing as a profession and what she wanted
to do with the rest of her
life," Harris says. In Spectre, "she wants to support
in a different way. There’s
a maturity in that decision
and a groundedness you see with her." Where you've
seen her before: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's
Chest (2006), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
STEPHANIE SIGMAN
Hometown: Obregon, Sonora, Mexico
Age: 28
Also known as: Estrella
Her brush with Bond: Sigman would love to say,
but she's sworn to secrecy
about pretty much everything involving her character, including her last
name. But when it comes
to Estrella's personality,
"there's a lot of Stephanie
in her. She's a lot like me,"
the Hollywood newcomer
says. "We like to have fun
and we're joyful people.
I found her really easy to
play and go with the flow
and just be me." Where
you've seen her before: Miss Bala (2011), Pioneer
(2013), TV's The Bridge (2013-2014)
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