{"id":265337,"date":"2025-11-05T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:55:09","slug":"goldeneye-star-famke-janssen-admits-to-finding-bond-girl-title-demeaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265337\/","title":{"rendered":"GoldenEye star Famke Janssen admits to finding Bond Girl title \u2018demeaning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Famke Janssen, who became a star playing an assassin who kills men between her thighs in the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye<\/a>, has said that she always found the \u201cBond Girl\u201d title \u201cdemeaning\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Dutch actor, whose credits also include the X-Men and Taken franchises, admitted to initial reluctance to accept the role in the 007 movie, which marked the Bond debut of Pierce Brosnan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very aware of the pitfalls of being a model-turned-actor-turned-Bond Girl,\u201d Janssen told The Guardian. \u201cI thought \u2018Bond Girl\u2019 was such a demeaning term. But I thought: \u2018I have nothing to lose; if I do this, I\u2019m going to go all the way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she improvised much of the character\u2019s personality quirks in the film, solely in order to make her more memorable than traditional Bond Girls. Janssen played Xenia Onatopp, henchwoman to Sean Bean\u2019s rogue agent 006, who throughout the movie appeared to receive orgasmic pleasure from violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up on Bond movies, because my dad used to like them, and so I always thought of them as comedies, as tongue-in-cheek,\u201d she continued. \u201cI thought: \u2018Let me make this character unforgettable.\u2019 I went for broke. It easily could have failed. I don\u2019t know where I got the confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FamkeFamke Janssen in the 007 film \u2018GoldenEye\u2019 (Moviestore\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Independent in 2022<\/a>, Janssen recalled facing assumptions about her character and her acting ability thanks to her history as a model and then in GoldenEye.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already had to deal with the stereotype of having been a model, but then I added another thing: model turned actress turned Bond Girl,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added that she had to fight for a role as an ordinary, working-class widow in a 1997 independent film called City of Industry, with her co-star Harvey Keitel asking her if she had ever even done her own laundry.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust me: I come from nothing,\u201d Janssen said. \u201cI\u2019m self-made. I\u2019ve cleaned toilets, worked in bars… this whole notion that I\u2019m some kind of glamorous movie star is not remotely true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Janssen is currently starring in the Netflix comedy drama Amsterdam Empire, in which she plays a one-hit-wonder pop star engaged in a bitter war with her ex-husband, a marijuana magnate. Despite Janssen being born and raised in Amsterdam, the role marks the very first time in her long career that she has spoken entirely Dutch on film or television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-265337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}