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[Righty007]

Rachel McAdams as Vesper Lynd would be the best Bond girl since Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond. I hope she gets the role.

[Jack Bauer]

I may be in the minority here, but I don't think that McAdams is on a level of fame comparable to Halle Berry or Denise Richards yet that would make her casting purely about wanting a "big name". Most of the time, for me anyway, when I'm trying to tell someone who McAdams is, just saying her name isn't enough. Usually, I have to qualify it by saying, "The actress from Red Eye or The Notebook" or something like that. I think that CR would take her into the kind of stardom that Berry has and that Denise Richards at one time had when they were going into their Bond movies. I think that the idea of casting a big name would be to draw people to the film. I don't think that McAdams has enough star power for her to be the only reason that people would go to the film.

I also think that her likeability and girl-next-door quality could help her in the Vesper role. Given the fact that the last two Bond films have featured lead women betraying Bond in the film (and neither of them being surprises, to say the least), I would think that EON would want to make this betrayal a bit more of a surprise to the audience, even if it's quite as surprising in the novel. By having someone that almost always plays innocent characters who are always likable, that would make the events of Casino Royale very shocking to the average person going to the movie who has no knowledge of the CR storyline. I think that she would give the Vesper character's actions more of an element of surprise than would an actress like Monica Belucci, who has played those types of characters before in high profile films like the Matrix films.

Well, I didn't mean that her popularity was on the par of say Halle Berry, but McAdams' name is growing pretty quickly.

[triviachamp]

Apparently on Etalk Daily Haggis said Rachel turned them down.

[Harmsway]

Apparently on Etalk Daily Haggis said Rachel turned them down.

That's good news for me. Not a fan of Rachel.

[Seannery]

The latest Entertainment Weekly asks why Rachel McAdams doesn't have anything lined up after a hot 2005.

Then her manager says she's trying to limit her press exposure for now and he confirms she has no new roles booked including the rumored Bond role. I guess that could change but listen to this:

Her producer for Red Eye says that she's very picky and asked about the Bond rumors the producer says that would be a MISTAKE--he says she's way beyond it.

None of this is definitive but they are not good signs that McAdams will become Vesper. With Thandie laughing off rumors about being Vesper also.....my question is does anyone with any kind of name or hot career want to be in CR? Or just virtual unknowns?

[Skudor]

Didn't she say on some talk show that she turned it down? (liked it, but turned it down).

[Qwerty]

Didn't she say on some talk show that she turned it down? (liked it, but turned it down).

http://debrief.comma...ndpost&p=515205

[Shrublands]

With Thandie laughing off rumors about being Vesper also.....my question is does anyone with any kind of name or hot career want to be in CR? Or just virtual unknowns?

But she didn

[Skudor]

[quote name='Shrublands' post='517126' date='13 February 2006 - 13:19']
[quote name='Seannery' post='517006' date='13 February 2006 - 08:09']
With Thandie laughing off rumors about being Vesper also.....my question is does anyone with any kind of name or hot career want to be in CR? Or just virtual unknowns?
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But she didn