James Bond’s new girlfriend, model and actress Olga Kurylenko, was born in a remote coastal town in Ukraine. Now Berdyansk is hoping to benefit from the success of its most famous daughter. Russia Today visited the town to speak to the people who knew Olga in her younger years.

Born in Berdyansk in southern Ukrainene, Olga went on to become an international model. It her mother who introduced her to the world of beauty. But Olga, she says, wanted to be a surgeon.

“When she was seven or eight she found a newborn kitten and it didn’t look like it would make it. But Olga insisted that we do CPR to the poor pet. I said we couldn’t and she burst into tears,” Marina Alyabusheva said.

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Sony Pictures have confirmed that there will be a press conference for Bond 22 tomorrow. The press conference will take place in Pinewood Studios near London. Additionally, there will be a photo call.

Most of the main cast will be attending: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright and Dame Judi Dench. Director Marc Forster and producders Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson will also be there.

It is not known if the title is revealed tomorrow.

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Parts of Bond 22 will be filmed in Bregenz, western Austria, on the edge of Lake Constance, Swiss production company Unicorn Media said.

(Spoiler Ahead! Highlight to read) The company is recruiting 1,500 extras for opera scenes set on a floating theater (Spoiler Ends). Unicorn Media has passed applications on to director Marc Forster’s London team, which will in turn choose the extras.

The filming, which began January 3 in London, will move to Bregenz between April 29 and May 10.

The new 007 film stars Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini and Anatole Taubmann. It is scheduled for a November 7, 2008 release.

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The 39-year-old star has just started filming his second 007 movie alongside sexy Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko and St. Trinian’s star Gemma Arterton - and he couldn’t be happier.

“Olga and Gemma are going to be amazing,” he said with a grin.

“They’re both very sexy ladies, which is very good. Olga’s the main ‘Bond girl’ in the movie but Gemma’s no less important.”

And the Cheshire-born star admitted that, despite praise for Casino Royale, playing James Bond still makes him nervous.

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The Ukranian girl discovered on Moscow’s metro who grew up to become Bond’s sexiest co star-yet

She is being billed as the toughest and most glamorous Bond girl to date.

But Olga Kurylenko’s route to stardom has been anything but easy. Behind the wide brown eyes in these exclusive pictures from her childhood is a tale of hard times.

Growing up in the poverty of the Soviet Union, she suffered a broken home and had to wear patched-up clothes.

But all that changed with a chance encounter on Moscow’s underground metro system.

The 28-year-old Ukrainian was unveiled last week as the actress who will play Camille in the as yet unnamed 22nd Bond film.

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