Cinema Blend is reporting that Rachel Weisz is being considered to play the lead villain in James Bond 23.
Weisz (The Constant Gardener, Mummy, Constantine) – currently filming the thriller Dream House with 007 himself, Daniel Craig – admitted that she would love to be a Bond girl.
Here's an excerpt from the site's article.
We've heard that Rachel Weisz could be involved in Bond 23. In the past she's joked about becoming a Bond girl, and though she's certainly beautiful, casting an actress of her caliber as yet another Bond nookie babe seems like kind of a waste. But Weisz is actually friends with Daniel Craig (in fact they're working together on the upcoming movie Dream House) and in the past she had a personal relationship with would-be Bond 23 director Sam Mendes. All Bond girl kidding aside, she has before expressed real interest in doing a Bond movie with Craig. So why not give her something substantive in the movie, something that won't reduce her to being 007's latest conquest? Why not let her play the villain?
In fact, they're considering Weisz to play the head of Quantum, the secret organization responsible for all the bad guy activity in the last two films. More than just another Bond babe, she'd be the mastermind pulling the strings behind everything that's happened in Daniel Craig's Bond movies so far, and the architect of James Bond's suffering.
This would mark the first time that a villainous mastermind has been portrayed by a woman in a Bond film. So what do you think?
