Dear Movie Bosses: Angelina Jolie is too much of a badass to be standing around twirling her hair and biting her lip at Bond, James Bond. She has too much of a brain to be absent-mindedly dropping her panties at the sight of Daniel Craig, alongside whom she was asked to co-star as a Bond girl in 2006′s Casino Royale.
Readers, how hard is any of this crap to grasp? You and I know that we’d be rolling around in the aisles at the sight of Jolie as an empty-headed plaything of a male protegonist. Thankfully, Jolie is more than aware of just how hard she kicks ass and told studio bosses ‘No’ to a Bond girl role four years ago because she would never have felt comfortable in a supporting role to a male action hero.
The Oscar-winner was approached by 007 movie bosses to take a turn as a Bond girl in the 2006 film, but she refused. Jolie has no regrets about the decision because she was able to fulfil her action ambitions with her own spy role in movie Salt. She tells Britain’s Mail on Sunday, “They wanted me to play a Bond girl in Casino Royale. I said, ‘Actually, I’d prefer to play him; I’d rather be Bond.’ It was a joke – kind of. It was an interesting conversation. Salt is nothing like Bond. In so many spy films women are femme fatales and we wanted to avoid that. My character doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. It’s the roughest I’ve looked. When we fight, it gets ugly. Somebody breaks my nose in the film. It’s not pretty. I think when people write things for women – at least with the films I’ve done in the past, such as Tomb Raider – they’re not serious. They’re not raw. They’re not hard. So when we wanted a real female action hero, we looked towards something that wasn’t written for a woman.” [The Toronto Sun]
Image credit to Juan Rico/Fame Pictures. Quote The Toronto Sun.
Haha, Gelina Bond, 003, does have a ring to it….
I agree, she needs not play supporting anything to anyone. Glad she looks like she has put on a pound or two.
Colin.