Bond girl rumor #899 - Michelle Yeoh doesn't know what "prequel" means
Filed under: Casting, RumorMonger, James Bond
Yesterday, Martha reported that
Australian actress Rose Bryne probably has the role of Vesper Lynde in Casino Royale all wrapped up. But
that's not stopping Michelle Yeoh from babbling a little bit of nonesense in an effort to get the producers to change
their minds. The star of Memoirs of a Geisha is actually a 007 veteran – she played Bond Girl Wai Lin in
1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. Apparently not getting the whole prequel aspect to Royale, Yeoh told
reporters that she'd love to work with Daniel Craig (she called the blonde Bond "a dish") and would
"jump at the chance of doing another Bond movie, it was so much fun." This was then reported
down
the wires with zero
attention paid to the fact that an encounter between Yeoh's character and a Casino-era Bond would make exactly
zero sense.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-16-2006 @ 4:27PM
ThePete said...
Is there a reason she would have to play the same character? Maude Adams played a different Bond girl (Bond woman?) to two different Bonds (Connery then Moore in "You Only Live Twice" and "Octopussy" respectively) why couldn't Yeoh?
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1-16-2006 @ 6:01PM
Finished.Law.School said...
What difference would it make considering the fact that there have been so many different men playing the role of Bond?
Your comment that Yeoh does not know what prequel means ignores this fact and is therefore irrelevant.
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1-16-2006 @ 6:22PM
Hollywood Gothique said...
By the logic employed here, Judi Dench would be "babbling nonsense" if she discussed appearing in the new Bond -- and yet she is returning as M, making the whole "prequel" aspect of the film rather questionable, to say the least.
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1-16-2006 @ 6:33PM
cmc said...
Nice opening title to your article--are you going down the gossip-columnist spiral? ...or are you already there?
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1-16-2006 @ 7:25PM
Elrond Hobbert said...
Are you implying she doesn't understand English? Bit of a racial taint to this article if you hadn't noticed.
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1-17-2006 @ 10:48AM
josh said...
Like there is any sort of strict continuity in the Bond series anyway?
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