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Ukranian actress Olga Kurylenko told press last week that her character Camille has “a masculine spirit.” The latest in a long line of Bond girls, she explained how her character’s relationship with James Bond in Quantum Of Solace will get along. “When she meets Bond, it clashes,” she said. “She’s careful and she doesn’t trust that easily. So basically with men, she either uses them, or if they’re no use, and she sees that they can’t serve her, then she throws them away. First she is trying to figure this guy out. But Bond and Camille do warm up to each other.”
“Daniel is my favourite Bond. He suits the part perfectly and he is a great actor.â€
Her character’s attitude is a result of the backstory: Camille’s family has been killed by General Medrano and Dominic Greene’s organisation ‘Quantum’, and she is out for revenge - on her own.
Casting for the role spread from South America to Russia, with Camille’s biography tweaked to make her half Bolivian (father’s side) and half Russian to explain away Kurylenko’s Ukrainian accent. But the casting was transparent for the actress. “When [director] Marc [Forster[ looked at me he was so blank. I told my agent, ‘Forget about it’. I was so sad”, she said to reporters in Chile last week. “It was Christmas Eve I found out I got the part. I was sat with my friends, it couldn’t have been a better present.”
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BAD news for Bond…007 doesn’t get to snog one of his new girls.
Ukranian model turned actress Olga Kurylenko has admitted she doesn’t kiss the secret agent, played by Daniel Craig, in the new movie Quantum Of Solace.
Filming in Chile, the stunning actress is putting on a brave face.
She said: “Why would I be disappointed? I’m just doing my work.”
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Born in the Ukraine in 1979, Olga Kurylenko moved to Paris when she was 16 to pursue a career as a model and actress. Roles in Paris Je T’Aime, Le Serpent and videogame adaptation Hitman followed, leading to the part of Bond girl Camille in Quantum of Solace. IGN caught up with her on the film’s set last week to discuss weapons, stunts and the side effects of taking on such an iconic role.
Tell us a little bit about Camille.
Olga Kurylenko: She is a strong, feisty, independent woman. She is out there on her mission, driven by revenge.
How deep is her relationship with Bond?
Kurylenko: Well in the beginning they come as opponents, but at a certain point they have to collaborate. They go through a lot of things together.
How did you get the role?
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Bond girl Olga Kurylenko has admitted that she had never seen a 007 film until she reached the age of 16 when she moved from her Ukrainian homeland to France.
The 28-year-old - who stars as Bond girl Camille alongside Daniel Craig in the next outing, Quantum Of Solace - said she still hadn’t seen any of the movies before Pierce Brosnan took up the role but that she’d got the box set of 20 films to find out what she’d been missing.
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They come from very different backgrounds. One is the daughter of a Gravesend welder while the other was brought up by a single mum in a bleak, impoverished Ukrainian backwater.
But Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko have both been plucked from obscurity for roles in the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
Just nine months ago, Gemma, who is 22 this week, was working in a Covent Garden beauty shop.
“We had a Bond themed night a year ago and I had dress as a Bond girl and sell make-up,” says the actress who plays MI6 operative Agent Fields. “And now here I am, a real Bond girl!
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