the woman called eva posted by imani , Monday, January 5, 2009 at 3:06 PM, in Labels: freefall

since last week i have been asking people at work if they have ever seen 'casino royale,' the 2006 installment to ian flemming's james bond. not a lot did. so it was inevitable that i answer their 'whys?' and i would always mention this particular conversation between james and vesper:

(this is what i recall from the scene after our james bond was tortured)

vesper: you know james...if all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, i would still think of you as a man more than anybody i know...

james leans to our beguiling bond girl and says:

james: that is because you know what my little finger could do.

now even i am curious of what his little finger could do. wahahaha.

so i have seen casino royale again at least twice for the past week. i thought it was because of daniel craig - he is one beautiful man and he looks naked even when he is clothed from head to toe. but then i realized it was because i had a bigger crush on eva green, the actress who plays vesper lynd - the girl who broke - and ulimately made - james bond.

turns out our girl eva (born eva gaelle green) is also a model and has posed for christian dior. she is a french actress with a fraternal twin sister, she's born to an author/actress mother and a dentist father. so that explains her perfect teeth. ehehe. she was born - darn it - on july 5, 1980 - a fellow cancerian (i want to call her and tell her it's time for some bonding session). she plays the piano and once wrote the score for a movie she also starred in. she has received a BAFTA (the british oscar) recognition for her role in casino royale. and she's only 28 years old.

i have never really been a big james bond fan (though i love sean connery - there really is just something about older men), but what i love about the way eva green executed her role as vesper lynd was how she made drowning in front of a guy who is madly in love with her look so good. vesper was the reason why james bond wanted to quit and why he became our tragic (stilll scorching hot, though) spy. that's some acting. and i mean it. in hollywood where dumb blonds get to be in more movies than really serious, talented actors - seeing eva green in casino royale is really, a breath of fresh air - she is sophisticated and stunning. and she tore james' heart apart.