The Spy Who Can’t Keep Secrets

Even before most people have seen the latest James Bond film, the exquisite Eva Green (who plays MI6 agent Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale), is spilling the beans about the next Bond flick, currently known only as Bond 22. A couple of weeks ago she was quoted at the Dark Horizons site as saying that the forthcoming (in 2008) movie will be “a direct continuation in terms of story as it revolves around a dark secret of Vesper involving her lover being tortured, leading Bond to his next mission.” Now, she’s revealed to Entertainment Weekly the identity of Bond 22’s villain. In answer to a question having to do with the difficulty of keeping Vesper’s “shifting motivations and loyalties” straight in Casino Royale, Green says:

I think it’s too confusing. But they’re going to do a second [movie] where you’ll understand what’s going on in her mind. It was really hard, and [producer] Barbara Broccoli helped me understand. You would think, wait a minute, she had an Algerian boyfriend, and she’s been sent on this mission, and then she begins to feel guilty. She’s in love with Bond. It’s a deep love. The Algerian boyfriend was something light, an affair. So there’s an internal conflict. The plan is, the Algerian boyfriend is going to be the baddie in the second Bond, and we’ll understand [better]. But you don’t have to think about it too much.

As Cinematical remarks, “someone somewhere has to be a bit ticked off at Eva Green” for talking too much, during promotional visits for Casino Royale, about the plot details of future silver-screen productions. But heck, aren’t secrets the most coveted currency in entertainment journalism?

READ MORE: “Brosnan Back in the Spy Business,” by Chris Ullrich (Cinematical).