JOHN CLEESE is
Algernon Smith, Agent 1123 PATRICK MCGOOHAN is
John Drake, Agent 706
SEAN BEAN is
Alec Trevelyan, Agent 722That's three of the four MI6 agents for my James Bond 007 scenario. But I still need a sassy Brit chick who can pull her own weight in the espionage game. Preferably, it would be someone who could play the part in the year 198x without her seeming out of time. My first thought was Diana Rigg (who is timeless), but upon further consideration that struck me as a little creepy since she was "killed" while playing Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Anybody got any other suggestions?
Kathleen, this PC is for your use. Do you have any strong preferences?
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A few suggestions
ReplyDeleteEmma Thompson: http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors/EmmaThompson.jpg
http://www.anyoldactress.com/pictures/emmathompson2.jpg
Pamela Salem (she played Miss Moneypenney):
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Nastassja Kinski:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/Nastassja_Kinski_in_Exposed.jpg/200px-Nastassja_Kinski_in_Exposed.jpg
Annette O'Toole:
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How about Joanna Lumley or Mary Tamm?
ReplyDeleteI'll have to think about it. Of the ones suggested so far, Emma Thompson is my favorite actress but I'm not certain she has the right vibe for this.
ReplyDeleteUmmm.... Agent 99? Hello?
ReplyDeleteElisabeth Hurley?
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http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/cinema/diaporama/06/casino-royale-james-bond-girls/thandie-newton.jpg
Cate Blanchett
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Uma Thurman
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Liz Hurley would be great, but she *did* turn out to be a FemBot.
ReplyDeletePerhaps go with "Mrs. Kensington" from the first movie, the fetching Mimi Rogers.
Eve Myles!
ReplyDeleteor maybe Indira Varma.
Both from Torchwood.
Amanda Donohoe, a favorite since Lair of the White Worm, coincidently playing a "sexy assassin" on Brit Tv currently.
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Caroline Munro, probably disqualified since she would have just finished the spy who loved me.
Wanda Ventham, perhaps? Bits in the Saint, the Prisoner, Avengers, Danger Man, Dr Who, and of course, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893243/
http://www.shadolibrary.org/crew/lake/index.htm
Forget Mrs. Kensington, I'd completely forgotten about Ingrid Bergman in Notorious. Cate Blanchett is also a great choice.
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Be-still-my-heart sweetheart Jane Merrow, circa 1967, who naturally would have a kind of easy (if not immediately explicable) kinship with 706.
ReplyDelete(Or not, depending on whether you'd be going by/referencing her appearances Danger Man, Saint, Avengers, Prisoner, or Mission:Impossible ... (etc). or some combination of all of them.)
It's a pity Barbara Bain is American - she was utterly amazing on Mission: Impossible. There are lots of good suggestions here, and I'd be fine with any of them.
ReplyDeleteHuh. I was just working under the assumption that the actress in question had to be able to pass as British...
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