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Bond films-The Kiss of Death?
Maybe this has been hashed before, maybe not. Since we have been bashing on Bond women what became of them after their Bond days? Some will say the films sent careers to the sewers while some may have used the Bond film to jumpstart their careers. Others were well established actresses and went on to greatness while others just fizzled out.
The one that comes to mind is Halle Berry
After winning the Best Actress Oscar and appearing in DAD, her career has gone straight to the outhouse. After some bad roles in several films like Catwoman, she has setteled into playing in low budget indie films and taking care of her child.
Diana Rigg was established when she played in OHMSS and afterwards she returned to her first love: the stage where she has enjoyed a great career.
Jill St John was established as a sex symbol in the 1960's and after heating up the screen in DAF she just vanished...
Jane Seymour went on to a successful career in film and television following LALD
Many of the early actresses were better known or just starting out in Europe and never heard from again.
Examples: Daniella Biachi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi complained of difficulty finding good roles in her native Italy after TB,
Some were just sub par actresses and never had a career before or after Bond: Olga Kuryenko, Lois Chiles, Talisha Soto, Barbara Bach, Tanya Roberts, Denise Richards...
Aside from the few examples above I would say that for actresses Bond is the Kiss of Death. Sad because I would think that Bond with the large world wide audience would really elevate them to stardom but not.
The one that comes to mind is Halle Berry
After winning the Best Actress Oscar and appearing in DAD, her career has gone straight to the outhouse. After some bad roles in several films like Catwoman, she has setteled into playing in low budget indie films and taking care of her child.
Diana Rigg was established when she played in OHMSS and afterwards she returned to her first love: the stage where she has enjoyed a great career.
Jill St John was established as a sex symbol in the 1960's and after heating up the screen in DAF she just vanished...
Jane Seymour went on to a successful career in film and television following LALD
Many of the early actresses were better known or just starting out in Europe and never heard from again.
Examples: Daniella Biachi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi complained of difficulty finding good roles in her native Italy after TB,
Some were just sub par actresses and never had a career before or after Bond: Olga Kuryenko, Lois Chiles, Talisha Soto, Barbara Bach, Tanya Roberts, Denise Richards...
Aside from the few examples above I would say that for actresses Bond is the Kiss of Death. Sad because I would think that Bond with the large world wide audience would really elevate them to stardom but not.
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Denise Richards did Starship Troopers before TWINE. And that film is amazing. Seriously, one of my favourite films ever. Though I agree with you, she's a terrible actress and her career went nowhere after Bond. More because of how bad she is, I think, than because of Bond.
Denise Richards, i've seen her in a movie like 2007 too, she did it with Pamela Anderson. Terrible movie, i recommend you to not even search for it.
Indeed. While the films that Kurylenko did weren't the best out there, they were still big films: 'Hitman,' 'Max Payne,' and she'll soon be seen in 'Oblivion' and Malick's 'To The Wonder.'
Anyway, Eva Green has done a few successful films after Bond I think, saw her in Dark Shadows (which also had Christopher Lee in it, and Alice Cooper, who loves Bond, so there's a few Bond links in that film).
And Famke Janesson is doing pretty well, especially with the Taken series, the 2nd film is sure to be a hit like the first one and there could be more afterwards.
That's true. Although I'd say Brosnan had a decent career alongside Bond as well as after it, he did some great films, like Taylor Of Panama, and Thomas Crown Affair.
Gotta be honest, i love all the Bond girls that exists since GE, With the exception of Jinx. Even Miranda Frost's one of my good ones.
Olga did good a QoS. Famke Janssen has been great since X-Men.
My gosh! I forgot about Famke Janssen. she has done very well for herself post GE.
In regard to the men, Brosnan was well established and has gone on to good roles since his days in bondage.
Moore was 57 when he quit Bond and basically retired. He could have done some paternal / grandfatherly roles but he chose to retire and devote his time to meaningful causes.
don't want to get into a discussion about Bond actors but I wanted to mention that Christopher Walken has managed to carve out a respectable career since AVTAK. despite winning a best Actor Oscar in 1979, he was unknown until AVTAK and he has parlayed his post Bond era quite successfully.
Other actors anyone?
Walken unknown pre-AVTAK (Brainstorm , Dead Zone......hardly small potatoes ?)
It's actually possible they only wanted Moore to continue to play secret agent kind of roles and that he wanted to try something else but they wouldn't budge.....only Moore knows the truth.
heh, Walken was around long before AVTAK - The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), Annie Hall (1977) to name but a few, and quite well known too..
funny you should say that because there is an episode of Remington Steele with Brosnan interacting with Vincent Schiavelli almost 10 years before TND! I believe the episode was called..."Steele on the Air."
Yeah, Shaiavelli plays like the Stereotypical 80's Film Agent Radio DJ type. it's from Season 4. It was pretty good.
alot of other ladies mentioned like jill st john went on to have families. Denise Richards had a few kids with sheen, now i think she lives mostly off advertising revenue.
Barbara Bach went on to take her education further after about 20 years in the business
to say Olga Kuryenko was sub par is to comment on her film and script in quantum of solace. if you look at her work she is clearly been steady in work before and since, a year may be missing due to intense post production on some projects?
Note : I wrote "hardly small potatoes" , meaning he *was* famous pre-AVTAK......natch after AVTAK he would play more and more "unstable" people. As Nick from Deer Hunter , even in that part you can see some of his insanity "trademark" showing thru.
But that has been changing in recent decades: many of the main actors from the Brosnan era forward have had substantial careers. GE: Brosnan, Bean, Dench, Janssen, Cumming, Driver, Coltrane. TND: Yeoh, Pryce, Hatcher. TWINE: Marceau. DAD: Berry, Pike. CR: Craig, Green, Mikkelsen, Wright, Christensen, Menzies. QoS: Amalric, Kurylenko (still working steadily).
To put it simply. Just like in the REAL world? You have to go out and find work like everyone else.
Brosnan didn't do bad movies alongside Bond, but his real non-Bond success didn't come until after Bond. Unlike Craig, the films Brosnan did alongside Bond were pretty much overshadowed by his Bond career.
Halle turned in such a bad performance in DAD. Maybe the fact that she was stunt casted and used to sell the film that she felt she was all that and a bag of chips, hench her taking bad roles post DAD.
Benicio Del Toro has done very well for himself winning an Oscar some years after his Bond movie. Unlike Walken and Berry they won theirs prior to Bond but he like Sir Sean got his oscar years later.