And yet, she’s lingered on as both a tragic memory from Bond’s past, and as a creative wellspring for Craig’s understanding of a character he’s revisited time and again, including in this week’s No Time to Die-his final appearance in the tuxedo.Īs Daniel Craig tells Den of Geek when we sit down with him over the weekend, Bond’s ill-fated romance with Vesper, and her betrayal, has served in a way to link all five films together. The doomed and beloved character, so memorably portrayed by Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), only appeared in Craig’s first outing as 007.

He has a chance at happiness with Vesper in Venice, but it's not long before this movie goes the tragic romance route of 'On Her Majesty's Service.' Their relationship is visualized as a sinking house of lies.For James Bond, or Daniel Craig’s version of him anyway, it all begins and ends with Vesper Lynd. You've stripped it from me,' he says while recovering - we finally understand how the callousness he develops toward women might be grounded in realistic hurt. He has to literally gird his loins against torture at the hands of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) and just generally rely on brute force rather than cheesy one-liners.Īfter meeting Vesper and seeing the effect she has on him - 'I have no armor left. Emotionally stunted in most other respects, this Bond is more of a 'blunt instrument' and a hardened survivor of all kinds of pain. Vesper is also vulnerable: never more so than during the shower of angst, where Bond comforts her after evading a machete in a stairwell fight for the ages.

At one point, when Bond orders a vodka martini, the bartender asks him, 'Shaken or stirred?' Bond knows that we know the answer to that question, so he just says, 'Do I look like I give a damn?'

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