Latest 'Bond girl' Harris sees role as part of her British duty

The actress says the latest 007 franchise returns to its tradition

By McClatchy News Services

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 09, 2012

~~<p>In her most famous big-screen role, the voodoo priestess Tia Dalia in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Naomie Harris wore grey, clay-lumped dreadlocks and the nastiest teeth this side of Oral B. But as Eve, fellow British secret agent and flirt to Daniel Craig's James Bond in "Skyfall," she cleans up well, "Bond babe" well.</p>
<p>"I have no quibbles with being a ‘Bond Girl,'" Harris says. With a proviso. "That's problematic, but it's also a great compliment. Bond girls are sexy and alluring and all that. But it's not appropriate for Bond women of today. We're characters, not stereotypes. Eve is very much Bond's equal — an agent, in the field. Firing guns. Driving like a madwoman. So ‘Bond Babe' seems so antiquated in light of that."</p>
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In her most famous big-screen role, the voodoo priestess Tia Dalia in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Naomie Harris wore grey, clay-lumped dreadlocks and the nastiest teeth this side of Oral B. But as Eve, fellow British secret agent and flirt to Daniel Craig's James Bond in "Skyfall," she cleans up well, "Bond babe" well.

"I have no quibbles with being a ‘Bond Girl,'" Harris says. With a proviso. "That's problematic, but it's also a great compliment. Bond girls are sexy and alluring and all that. But it's not appropriate for Bond women of today. We're characters, not stereotypes. Eve is very much Bond's equal — an agent, in the field. Firing guns. Driving like a madwoman. So ‘Bond Babe' seems so antiquated in light of that." Login for more...