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Now I am happy with Claudine, but as a boy in the '60s I was in love with Raquel Welch (just like everyone else). I would have been overjoyed to see her in any Bond film.
Am I wrong, but isn't the Frobe dubbing brighter, lighter, and dare I say, more golden than his actual voice?
It's the 40th anniversary of Bond approaching and we are eagerly awaiting Beyond the Ice...no sorry Die Another Day! it is announced that Halle Berry will play Jinx and be the main female lead. However other actresses were up for the role and one of those actresses was and still is one of my celebrity crushes. Salma Hayek!
Salma was either offered the role, or was in serious consideration for the role. In 2004 her and Pierce shared the screen and some wonderful chemistry in After the Sunset. So my dear Mi6 community. What if Salma was cast as Jinx in Die Another Day. Does she elevate the role? Does she do the role better than Halle? Can we see EON offering her a movie franchise and giving Jinx a stand-alone film?
What if Salma Hayek was cast as Jinx In Die Another Day?
Well, Jinx coming out of the water would have been an even more memorable scene.
In all seriousness, it's probably the same film with perhaps better chemistry between the leads and a more exotic Bond girl.
I've not seen After The Sunset, but I read Salma and Pierce have great chemistry in it.
Halle Berry was wasted on that film, as so was the whole cast, they've been given bad material and script to worked with.
I believe that Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Halle Berry were all great actors/actresses, but none of them had saved the script, so whoever cast in that film couldn't able to save it.
Replace the director, the scriptwriters, and it would be better, even retaining the same cast.
Salma Hayek is sexy, but I don't know in whom Bond Girl or what Bond Girl she would fit. Even Christmas Jones, I mean I couldn't also see her playing a Nuclear Physicist 😅, she couldn't sell it either, it needs a matured, serious (not so sexy) actress to make it believable, not just an eye candy like Hayek, Michelle Pfeiffer would have sell it, I think.
I can see her maybe being something similar to Xenia Onatopp, a sexy femme fatale who would just seduce Bond, but other than that, I just couldn't see her fitting in any Bond Girl roles other than play a sexy, seductive roles.
On a side note and sorry if I come off as a chauvinist pig, but had Salma Hayek been cast as Jinx, she wouldn't swim, she'd float.
Sick burn. Here’s my opinion: I wonder if my young mind at the time would have understood what she was saying. My dad now says sometimes he still doesn’t understand what she’s saying. All over her career.
But Halle Berry's name was really big at the time, she won an Oscar, she's way more popular than Hayek.
Yes but she also had a lot of detractors and if I'm not mistaken often perceived as a prima donna, somebody self centered and hard to work with. I don't think (someone corrects me if im wrong) Salma Hayek never got that kind of negative reactions. Not at the time anyway. She was pretty much seen as a hot Latina. No more, but no less.
She's a good actress and she comes across a really likeable person
Still the problem of the awful dialogue they made the Jinx actress spew would have been the same. Catastrophic. Now there's a mouthful.
And Brosnan Bond commenting on assets.
I find Salma Hayek very attractive. I didn't say that floating comment as a slight on her appearance.
Writing wise, it’s the same thing that happened with Denise Richards and Christmas Jones in TWINE. There’s not enough character there for someone to go and really flesh out. Which is a shame given Natalya, Wai Lin, and Elektra in other Brosnan films.
That said, especially revisiting the film across the last decade, Berry comes across as flat in her performance. I think David Zaritsky and Calvin Dyson both noted it talking about the film a year or two ago. Plus, one or two of the more cringy lines (“Yo Momma!” especially) we’re apparently her ad-libs.
Yes, it's the writing and the directing, had DAD hired a more suitable, better director for this film, they wouldn't acted that way for sure.
A sexual Jinx? That phrase would definitely trigger Sir Roger's eyebrow
I agree that Jinx is a superfluous character and recasting it would not have solved this issue. But didn't Hayek played action roles in that Desperado sequel and in Zorro? She might have been okay as an action girl. Although I doubt people would have cared either way. The character would have been just as bad, but more accepted.
But still, I think Halle Berry was fine in the role, it just needed a right director and script, I don't see Hayek in the role.
Like what I've said, she would've worked for a femme fatale character a la Xenia Onatopp, she had the looks, but not a good main Bond Girl.
When starting to develop Licence to Kill (or Licence Revoked as it was first known), Eon wanted a place where the series had not yet visited for the primary location. While China was visited after an invitation by its government, the idea fell through because of budget concerns most notably. With China out, the Eon team decided to relocate the story in Latin America. But what if Asia was kept as the main location? Either with Eon filming in China or in another Asian country?
How would this setting have impacted the story? Originally, Maibaum and Wilson dusted off the original Bond 15 treatments, set in South East Asia, and reworked them to refashion this prequel story into a traditional Bond adventure, before moving away and crafting Licence to Kill as we know it.
In short, what if Licence to Kill was set in Asia as it was originally planned?
I think it would have helped the movie somewhat, both intrinsically and its BO. Asia was at the time (and maybe now) far more exotic than Florida.