Mar. 22 – Freida Pinto, the star of the Oscar-winning Indian film “Slumdog Millionaire,” is set to be the new James Bond love interest opposite Daniel Craig.
The new film will be set in Afghanistan and is to be directed by Sam Mendes. Pinto is currently shooting Woody Allen’s star studded film “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.”
The only Chinese actress to play a Bond Girl was Tsai Chin in 1967’s “You Only Live Twice,” where she only appeared in a pre-title sequence in which James Bond’s assassination is staged. The Malaysian-Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh played the part of Wai Lin in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” which was one of several Bond movies partially shot in Hong Kong. Pinto will be the first Indian to play the role.
Details of all the James Bond girls can be found here.
Personally, she is a bit of a babe isn’t she? But can she act? We’ll have to wait for the Woody Allen film to find out. Now an Allen comedy set in Mumbai would be quite something…
Interesting…this new Bond series definitely has more of an international flair when it comes to Bond Babes