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16 November 2006 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

New James Bond star Daniel Craig almost didn't get the chance to wow audiences with his toned torso and tight swimwear in Casino Royale, because movie bosses never even wrote the pin-up sea scene. One of the most memorable images from the latest 007 film, which premiered in London Tuesday night, sees Craig emerge out of the ocean in close-fitting blue shorts, much like bikini-clad Ursula Andress' iconic entrance in 1962's Dr No. But producer Barbara Broccoli insists the moment was entirely coincidental. She explains, "Daniel had to go into the sea for a scene. But when he came out all the women on the set gasped. It wasn't intended for the scene to go that way but he made a real impact."

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17 February 2006 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Just one day after announcing that Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen would portray the villain in Casino Royale, the next James Bond flick, the film's producers said that French actress Eva Green had been cast as the next "Bond girl." Green, who starred opposite Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven (and was later linked to him romantically), will play the role of Vesper Lynd, a role played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress in the original 1967 Casino Royale spoof. In a statement, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, said: "After an extensive search we have found the perfect actress. ... She brings to the complex role of Vesper an exciting combination of enigmatic and seductive beauty." Columbia Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal added that while Bond stories are first about action, "you need to have palpable sexual tension in the movie and in casting Vesper, we really needed to up the ante, because this character is very much an equal to Bond and central to our story."

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