The actress Gemma Arterton found international fame as the ill-fated agent Strawberry Fields, opposite Daniel Craig’s James Bond in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace. But in a new interview with Sun, the British star says she was criticized for being a Bond girl – a role she admits to having her own reservations.
“At the beginning of my career, I was poor as a church rat and was happy just to be able to work and earn a living”, Arterton, who also starred in The best of them and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, he told the British newspaper.
“I still get criticism for accepting Quantum Of Solace, but I was 21, had a student loan and, you know, it was a Bond film, ”added the actress, now 34.
“But as I grew up, I realized that there were a lot of problems with Bond women. Strawberry should have just said no, really, and wore flat shoes. “
The film – Craig’s second departure as 007 – shows him seducing the beautiful MI6 agent Strawberry Fields shortly after meeting her in Bolivia. The encounter is short-lived, when he returns to his hotel room to find her naked body sprawled on the bed and covered with black oil.
Arterton created an alternative ending for his character in a short story, entitled Woke Bond Woman, for the 2018 collection Feminists don’t wear rose and other lies. In it, Strawberry rejects Bond’s advances – dismissing him as a co-worker 20 years older than her – and lives to see another day, even killing some villains of herself.
“I decided to write an article about what would happen after # MeToo, post Harvey Weinstein, if my Bond girl was an awake woman,” she explained during an appearance on Feminists don’t wear pink podcast.
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