Pierce Brosnan Bond lady ‘thrown to the wolves’ after GoldenEye ‘onslaught’

After a document six-year hole following Timothy Dalton’s Licence To Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye – which is on ITV this afternoon – rebooted the James Bond franchise for a post-Cold War world.

The 007 film’s femme fatale was set to be Xenia Onatopp, a Georgian fighter pilot and henchwoman to Sean Bean’s villain Alec Trevelyan.

In 1994, Courteney Cox was provided the function however turned it down on account of her scheduling conflicts filming Friends.

Yet it wasn’t lengthy earlier than GoldenEye director Martin Campbell noticed his Xenia in Famke Janssen after seeing her early rushes for 1995’s Lord of Illusions.

The actress signed on to play the Bond girl, however later admitted she practically had a coronary heart assault studying within the script how her character killed her victims: by asphyxiating them between her thighs.

Nevertheless, the long run X-Men star threw herself into the half, even breaking a rib through the sauna struggle scene with Brosnan. It seems Janssen had insisted that the Bond star run her into the wall as arduous as he may believing the partitions to be padded.

Janssen even carried out a few of her personal driving stunts within the opening automobile chase between Bond’s Aston Martin and Onatopp’s Ferrari. However, following GoldenEye’s launch, the actress severely struggled with being thrust into the Hollywood limelight.

Speaking beforehand with The Independent, the 58-year-old admitted: “The Bond movie dictated a lot of my relationship with the press… honestly, after GoldenEye, I felt like I was thrown to the wolves. It was just an onslaught of attention, good and bad and everything in between.”

Janssen continued: “I decided I’d rather be less famous and do things on my terms. That means I don’t make as much money as other people do. I don’t date famous people. I’m not on social media… but fame comes at a price, and it wasn’t one that I was willing to pay…I already had to deal with the stereotype of having been a model, but then I added another thing: model turned actress turned Bond Girl.”

“I feel incredibly misunderstood at times. It’s the dichotomy between the way I look and what is happening inside. But that comes with being in a Bond movie and playing this crazy assassin. All of my friends and family know that I’m goofy, and sensitive, and that I play these characters who are so different from that; other people probably think I’m just playing myself.”