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http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_23_report_jun11d.php3
Are official casting announcements likely to come in November, just before filming begins or could they possibly arrive before then and if so how soon?
Afterall, official pre-production work gets underway next month, so if Harris and/or others are needed for training, why not announce the cast then?...
http://www.virginmedia.com/newsfeeds//11586/2011/07/03/naomie-harris-promises-pecial/
And if Bond 23 is "very special" then great, how it's special doesn't really bother me as long as it's remembered.
Site-note: In MI6's recent main Bond 23 articles, they've stated official pre-production begins in mid-July. What is the source for this? Or did they gain this information from their moles?
Pre-production would officially begin in August anyway, three months before filming begins, for stunt training, driving, mainly for Craig, so I was just wondering why the slightly earlier start.
Likely a case or having the extra time and using it, I guess?
Anyway, I bet Harris is just talking up to the producers with her comments. As far as people have shown here she's only had an audition. Which, in the Bond universe, says just about squad all.
Oh, and Halle Barry was rubbish, and that's a fact! ;-)
see?
I told y'all from the get go that she is not going to be right for any Bond Girl role (and I've seen her movies) but nooooo..... no one listens to me and some of y'all even went as far to call me a racist.
She has no talent - it has nothing to do with race.
If she is going to base her portrayal of a Bond girl on Halle and Grace's performance, her Bond 23 girl will be partly AVTAK mixed with DAD!!
If EON is casting Naomie because they want to have a African or African American or Dark Skinned actress for a change, that's ABSOLUTELY FINE BY ME!
But there are much better actresses than Naomie!!
Before any of y'all say anything - nope, Zoe Saldana is not on the list I have!!
She is too expensive now for EON!
(I found her quite attractive in pirates. Even with the black teeth she had in the movie. And if I remember correctly, she was quite stunning in 'After The Sunset' starring alongside the Brozzenator)
She's not the worst person to take on the role in the next flick.
As an african american woman and actor, I presume roles are limited for her from the WASPs and god's people who run Hollywood don't you think?
Naomie's licence to thrill
Miss Moneypenny, 007’s tart-tongued, flirtatious foil, is returning to the James Bond movies in the shape of Naomie Harris.
The actress met with Sam Mendes, director of Bond 23, earlier this year and is now in the final stages of negotiations to play the long-running Bond girl — although, strictly speaking, Moneypenny isn’t a Bond girl at all; she’s the assistant to Bond’s boss, M.
Naomie made her name in Danny Boyle’s film 28 Days Later. Many will also know her from the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, but I think she did her best work in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, The First Grader (an enjoyable low-budget recent release) and Danny Boyle’s National Theatre production of Frankenstein, in which she played the leading lady opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.
The actress is poised to appear alongside Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench when filming begins later this year.
The Moneypenny character, who holds the rank of Lieutenant RN, hasn’t been seen in a Bond picture since Samantha Bond played her in Die Another Day back in 2002, when she appeared with Pierce Brosnan.
Samantha appeared in four 007 thrillers, starting with GoldenEye. It’s widely thought she threw the best retort ever at James Bond. Having bedded his Scandinavian tutor, he tells Moneypenny: ‘I always enjoyed learning a new tongue.’ Moneypenny responds dryly: ‘You always were a cunning linguist, James.’
It’s too early to know whether Mendes will want Naomie to play Moneypenny in the same drier-than-a-shaken-martini vein, but she’s an astute actress who will be able to deliver her character any way he desires.
Lois Maxwell was the original (and still the most famous) Moneypenny, appearing in the first Bond picture Dr No in 1962. She retired following A View To A Kill in 1985.
Caroline Bliss played the part in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill before making way for Ms Bond.
Barbara Bouchet played her in the 1967 Casino Royale, and Pamela Salem had a go in 1983’s Never Say Never Again.
Both of those movies were made outside of the Eon organisation, which controls the screen rights to Bond creator Ian Fleming’s works.
A spokeswoman for Eon said that Naomie had met with producers but stressed it had not been confirmed she would be in the film.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2012464/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Naomies-licence-thrill.html
So, is this true, or just plucked out of thin air?...
oh and Harris for Moneypeny I approve.
I think this is probably closer to the 'truth' at this point.
She needs to speak less I feel...never before have I read about an actress as much pre-Bond filming as this in recent years.
It makes me laugh how he's got out of it again - sneaky aussie kutha.
Then again he did loose over £400 million on myspace when he sold it a few weeks ago.
JB: It was worth every penny, darling.
MP: Am I a woman who needs payment for love, James?
JB: All it takes for you to get that pussy shaven, not furred, darling.
(the joke's getting old, I know.)