WWW- The new Bond Girl is Green, Eva Green - and she's no shrinking violet.
The 25-year-old French brunette bared it all in an erotic drama, "The Dreamers," and her steamy sex scene with Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven" was reportedly so hot it had to be pruned.
"Nudity is not a big thing with Europeans, but it terrifies Americans," Green said in a recent interview.
Now the producers of the Bond franchise are banking on Green to sizzle as the vampy Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale" opposite the first blond Bond, Daniel Craig.
"She brings to the complex role of Vesper an exciting combination of enigmatic and seductive beauty," producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said yesterday.
Green was en route to Prague, where the filming of the 21st Bond movie was underway.
Green, however, wasn't Columbia's first choice. She got her shot after more established stars like Angelina Jolie, Thandie Newton and Charlize Theron passed. And she reportedly had to overcome stiff competition from "Wicker Park" beauty Rose Byrne and Olivia Wilde from "The O.C."
The Paris-born daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist, Green joins a sexy sorority of former Bond girls such as Halle Berry, Kim Basinger and Teri Hatcher.
Green said she gets more nervous doing interviews than taking off her clothes, which she did with relish in "The Dreamers" for Bernardo Bertolucci, who also directed the notorious "Last Tango in Paris."
Green also has a healthy disdain for working out.
"I'm French and I'm lazy, which means I smoke and I don't exercise," she told the Calgary Sun last year. "This is the body I was given."
