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I think she was decent enough.
I also disagree about the miscast actresses. Janssen, Scorupco, Yeoh, Marceau and Pike all performed well in their respective roles IMO. Berry and Richards were iffy though, but that's counting only two. And as for minor roles (Bond, Dench, Driver, Thomsen, Deckers, Grazia Cucinotta, Scott Thomas, Grant, ...) I can't say I'm ever disappointed as such. Truly, I find most of the Brosnan women, in terms of casting at least - not necessarily in terms of character development, fairly good!
Namely:
"I've made my bed...you don't sleep in it anymore". A cheesey line that Hatcher delivers in an over-the-top manner.
"That's it...go home" (in Bond's doorway)
"I have no choice, no one can protect me from him...not even you"
Does Wai Lin even like him?
There seemed to be a curious non-chemistry with Brosnan and his leading ladies.
Natalya I am not sure he ever recovered from the bashing his eardrums got when he first met her. Wai Lin seemed as disinterested in him as he was for her. The only one he generally seemed pleased to be with was Electra and I wonder if that was Sophies superior acting that brought it out of him. And Halle? The less said the better.
This is not a bash. But the chemistry between his leading ladies wasn't perhaps as strong as Sean and Ursula, George and Diana, Rog and Maud, Tim and Maryam and Dan and Eva..
Another moment you could feel sorry for Brozza was in DAD. Right after Jinx says "I think I got the THRUST of it" at the Ice Palace party there's a shot of Brozza looking annoyed. Who could blame him?
I quite liked Wai Lin's reactions at some of Brosnan's quips.
"I always thought watching your tv shows was torture enough"
(After touching the fire breathing dragon model) "Very novel"
That last one does make me laugh too.
Not surprisingly, many have claimed that Brosnan had no chemistry with Halle Berry. Why do Bond fans are so vitrol about her? It's almost pathological. It's definitely disturbing. And I'm beginning to wonder a lot about many Bond fans and the reasons behind their attitudes.
shame she and brosnan would have had more chemestary
Does that clear it up a bit?
You're right but your info is a bit off. Bellucci was up for the role and available. Wilson and Broccoli (and maybe Spottiswoode too) instead chose Hatcher. And Brosnan called them "fools" in recollection and he was damn skippy right about that. Hatcher can't touch Bellucci and this was a terrible hire too often repeated in the Brosnan era. Lesser known actresses needing a break are the best choices, always have been, stars like Hatcher, Berry, Richards rarely if ever give their best efforts as they have nothing to prove, being a Bond girl is just an extra plum on their resumes.
Read Hatcher's exit comments sometime about her "regret" in taking the role. They sure don't endear her to me. I think her husband at the time, Jon Tenney, was more responsible than anyone in her accepting because he loved the idea of being married to a Bond girl. She was also pregnant and hormonal at the time and we fathers here certainly know what that is like, do we not? She caused her fair share of acrimony on the set and her condition no doubt was a contributing factor.
My recollection was that "the studio" was why they went with Hatcher, not EON. Can anyone confirm this? As I recall it was the studio who always insisted on casting actresses who were popular with younger guys (Hatcher was hot off of Lois and Clark, and then we had Denise Richards and then Halle Berry) as a way of guaranteeing box office from the prime demographic of 16 to 25 year old American males. In fact, I seem to recall someone (Brosnan? Broccoli? Spottiswoode?) actually saying that Hatcher was "forced" upon the production by MGM/UA, but as that was quite a while ago my memory may be faulty.
Bond is almost always better off with some Euro- totty.
Not a patch on Bond/Vesper in CR which I love and rate as the best aspect of the film
I would give that the finger, which is apperently enough for Vesper. O:-)
First, I just want to say I loved Natalya and Brosnan together; I like GE so much and they have real spark. She was the best Bond girl of his era, for sure. I also wish they had signed on Monica Belucca instread of Teri - it would have made a great difference. The entire world is probably unanimous in that ... except for the people who actual did the hiring; shame. I like Brosnan and Yeoh together but it wasn't a hot sexual chemistry; still very nice, working partners, and I enjoyed seeing them together. I do feel that Brosnan had a poor lot of leading Bond girls to work with after GE. Berry, blah and irritating; Richards annoying and stupid, Hatcher blah and shallow, Sophie Marceau was beautiful and could act so she is second to Isabella for me (but she was the villain, right? And Richards, the main Bond girl). Ah well. Poor Pierce -and after that sparkling first film, too.
So Brosnan deserved a fifth, done in a timely way with a great Bond girl - but then, so Timothy deserved a 3rd! (I thought Kara and Pam were great Bond girls). Both their Bonds were shortchanged so to speak when it comes to great main Bond girls - Dalton for lack of more, and Brosnan for lack of quality. :(
Sir Roger, bless him, had the best variety and some great Bond girls overall (Seymour, Bach, Adams, Bouquet). And then there's Sean, the original - he had most of the prime, truly stellar women (Ursula, Claudine, Honor, Daniela, and Mie).
Lazenby, you say? OK, I don't care for his Bond, but Diana Rigg was an excellent main Bond girl. Her Tracy was one of the best highlights of that film.
Now Daniel is along with, well, only 3 films wrapped, but his first had one of the very best Bond girls ever, in my opinion - Eva Green. Great chemistry, lovely and strong woman. QOS, not really so great, although I sympathized with Olga's character. Skyfall - I will have so much to say later, I am sure! So far, Bereniece fits the bill as top drawer main Bond girl in looks and voice, I think. Hope her character is wonderful.
And her chemistry with Dalton was great, in my opinion. D'Abo's acting was more than adequate; I like the two of them. But I guess that is more for a Dalton thread ... I just got started thinking of Pierce and wanted to mention all the Bonds. Didn't mean to digress too much.
I'm glad to see that they're casting good, interesting actresses instead of "stars" that the marketing department suggests...one of the things that I loved as a kid was when you would see these exotic, interesting women that you had never seen before. That made them more special, whereas when you're watching Teri Hatcher you think, oh, there's Lois Lane! or when you watch Halle Berry you think, oh, there's Storm!
Hard to believe that we almost had Angelina Jolie as Vesper (I guess we have to thank Brad Pitt for Eva Green - IIRC the offer was made to Jolie and she had to turn it down due to her pregnancy). As much as I think she's an under-rated actress (I think she shines when given good material and a good director) having this "unknown" actress Eva Green was one of the key parts of CR (along with Craig, Campbell, and the script) that made it so exceptional.
At least Brosnan did get some good actresses to work with - both women in GE, Marceau, Pike...
I'll explain this one... Halle Berry is a fine actress and a beautiful woman. She can do many things well performance-wise, but the ONE thing she is completely unsuccessful at is street smart tough girl. Her version of that is simply bitchy Berry. In Last Boyscout she played Cory precisely the same way, and the result was that when her character dies, we as the audience feel no real remorse. Remember that girl in High School you saw and your jaw dropped, until she opened her mouth and suddenly there endith the fantasy? That, my friend, is Jinx. Topped off with the worst haircut of her career.
Does that clear it up a bit?
No it doesn't. Because I had no problems with her performance as Jinx Johnson. Since when did Berry have to play the street smart tough "woman" with perfection in order to have chemistry with Brosnan?
I thought Kara was stunning and fancy Maryam to this day. She looked great at the Skyfall premiere. I could see Bond marrying her more than Vesper. Don't get me wrong, Eva Green is beautiful and was great in CR, but I did not buy how Bond fell for her. She was a tough woman.
The Living Daylights had got the chemistry right and it worked. It also nicely contrasted with her naivety and Bond's harsh experience of life.
Bond and Kara is the most convincing pairing in the whole series. And I also like Vesper.
The one who had the least was Michelle Yeoh but still very acceptable.
Anyway i made two polls on ImDB on Bond and his girls and here the results so far
http://www.imdb.com/poll/umrLfuBQpNg/results?answer=12&ref_=po_rv
http://www.imdb.com/poll/uREdvV4WYZY/results?answer=19&ref_=po_rv
Brosnans on screen chemistry was awful.
The only one that was actually remotely believable was actually Michelle Yeoh IMO.
The others were all abysmal. Morceau could have been quite good but the film and Brosnans Performance were so awful, she didn't get a chance.
Noo, he stole his girlfriend lol
Noo, seriously.
I think Pierce was so good at getting the ladies that it helped his on screen chemistry even with worst Bond girls
As I've mentioned ages ago here, in my opinion Pierce had incredibly good chemistry with Isabella in Goldeneye. Very palpable, lovely to watch, well played. His other Bond women were pretty weak, but still for me he had nice chemistry with women overall. Teri maybe lacking the most, Denise just so weak an actress it would have been like acting with a big cut out doll.