From the moment Vesper unceremoniously interrupts the blond Bond's ( Daniel Craig) dinner by tossing down her purse and folding into the seat across from him, declaring with wickedly sparkling eyes, 'I'm the money,' Green radiates a sense of assured capability and established personality. You'd never tell from the way the actress slides through scenes with the same fitted ease as a tailored suit. Eva Green had few film credits to her name before Casino Royale, and of those four, only director Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven wasn't a production from her native France.
