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[bill007]

Just an idea....

Considerations for Moneypenny (should she ever re-occur)...The next Lois Maxwell

[DamnCoffee]

Gemma Arterton.

[Mr.B]

I don't care that much about the actress to play Moneypenny as long as the character will return at all. Also I don't want an A-list-actress to portrait her.

[Skudor]

Gemma Arterton.

Not a bad choice at all.

[Leon]

I don't want a well known actress to play Moneypenny, she should be able to make the character her own.

Someone like Hayley Atwell. English, "proper" accent and decent yet little known actress. She's 26 with an air of maturity and beautiful.

[tdalton]

I don't want a well known actress to play Moneypenny, she should be able to make the character her own.

Someone like Hayley Atwell. English, "proper" accent and decent yet little known actress. She's 26 with an air of maturity and beautiful.

I think that she could be a very good Moneypenny if and when EON decides to bring the character back to the franchise.

[WC]

Lois Maxwell was Canadian though with a kind of mid-atlantic accent. Why should Moneypenny be an English actress?

[MkB]

Lois Maxwell was Canadian though with a kind of mid-atlantic accent. Why should Moneypenny be an English actress?

Very true! I liked the idea of giving her a colonial background in The Moneypenny Diaries, and I'd appreciate her having a more exotic background in the films too. So why not a commonwealth accent, or even a slight, Eva Green like, foreign accent?

[sharpshooter]

I haven't heard of her until now, but this Hayley Atwell looks like she could fit the role of Moneypenny nicely. I'm a fan.

[Leon]

Lois Maxwell was Canadian though with a kind of mid-atlantic accent. Why should Moneypenny be an English actress?

Just what I'd prefer, you're welcome to want another nationality of actress.

[Righty007]

Rachel Weisz

[Leon]

Weisz is far too well known. Bloody hot though.

[Righty007]

Lois Maxwell was Canadian though with a kind of mid-atlantic accent. Why should Moneypenny be an English actress?

Because Miss Moneypenny is an English character.

Weisz is far too well known. Bloody hot though.

Probably but I'd say she is just as well known as Jeffrey Wright...

[Leon]

Weisz is far too well known. Bloody hot though.

Probably but I'd say she is just as well known as Jeffrey Wright...

I'd dissagree, I hadn't really heard of Wright until Casino Royale when I recognised he was from Syriana.

Weisz has been in big commercial movies like The Mummy, About A Boy and Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman - films that are on TV all the time as well.

She's also been constantly appearing in celebity magazines for years, and I don't even read them I just have seen her on the covers.

[killkenny kid]

I don't want a well known actress to play Moneypenny, she should be able to make the character her own.

Someone like Hayley Atwell. English, "proper" accent and decent yet little known actress. She's 26 with an air of maturity and beautiful.

mmmmm.....not bad, not bad at all.

[tdalton]

As far as the Rachel Weisz suggestion, I think that I'd rather see her in the part of one of the main Bond girls in a future film. She's a great actress who i think could work very well opposite Daniel Craig. I'm also really liking the suggestion of Hayley Atwell as Moneypenny, and hopefully if EON decides to bring the character back, she's one of the names considered for the role.

[Leon]

I have always thought Rachel Weisz was really damn hot, and I'd not be against her appearing in a Bond film at all, but she is too well known to be Moneypenny I feel.

I feel an actress like Atwell is best, the right age, the right look and a solid actress who's style fits the role. Most importantly however, not well known at all.

I'm sure there are others like her too, probably a few even better.

[MkB]

Rachel Weisz

This woman looks like none of the secretaries I've met!

[Righty007]

Rachel Stirling, daughter of Dame Diana Rigg

[Leon]

Stirling's an interesting choice. Never seen her act though.

This woman looks like none of the secretaries I've met!

Indeed

[Righty007]

Stirling's an interesting choice. Never seen her act though.

This woman looks like none of the secretaries I've met!

Indeed

I saw that one on Google yesterday. I was about to post it but I thought it might be too much for some of the kiddies around here.

[Leon]

I saw that one on Google yesterday. I was about to post it but I thought it might be too much for some of the kiddies around here.

Naaah, it'll put hair on their chests.

[Double-0 Seven]

[quote name='bill007' post='854842' date='29 March 2008 - 07:19']Just an idea....

Considerations for Moneypenny (should she ever re-occur)...The next Lois Maxwell

[Righty007]

Just an idea....

Considerations for Moneypenny (should she ever re-occur)...The next Lois Maxwell…..

My suggestion is ...

Nobody. Lois is gone. Period.

You suggest forgetting about Moneypenny and Q because Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn have passed away? Don't you think they would have wanted their characters to live on?

[Leon]

You suggest forgetting about Moneypenny and Q because Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn have passed away? Don't you think they would have wanted their characters to live on?

Very good point. I think that argument is silly, those characters can live on very well given the right casting.

David Jason has been mentioned as a good choice for Q, this still intruigues me. He's an actor the audiences would love dearly also.

[Righty007]

You suggest forgetting about Moneypenny and Q because Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn have passed away? Don't you think they would have wanted their characters to live on?

Very good point. I think that argument is silly, those characters can live on very well given the right casting.

David Jason has been mentioned as a good choice for Q, this still intruigues me. He's an actor the audiences would love dearly also.

How about this guy for Q?

[Zorin Industries]

[quote name='bill007' post='854842' date='29 March 2008 - 05:19']Just an idea....

Considerations for Moneypenny (should she ever re-occur)...The next Lois Maxwell

[Leon]

How about this guy for Q?

Far too dull. Is there a thread for discussing a possible new acotr for Q? If so could someone link me?

[Zorin Industries]

And if MONEYPENNY is to return to Bond...and right now I am glad to see the back of such narrative deadwood, can we please be brave enough to have a woman who is a decent secretary and nothing else. Let's not get ourselves bogged down in political correctness and power dressing. This could be just me, but Samantha Bond became more and more androgenous / Peter Pan looking as Brosnan's hairline went on...

[Righty007]

And if MONEYPENNY is to return to Bond...and right now I am glad to see the back of such narrative deadwood, can we please be brave enough to have a woman who is a decent secretary and nothing else. Let's not get ourselves bogged down in political correctness and power dressing. This could be just me, but Samantha Bond became more and more androgenous / Peter Pan looking as Brosnan's hairline went on...

I agree, her haircut got too short in the later films but this picture makes up for it.