'If I don't have it turned on, everything goes,' she lowers her voice to a conspiratorial whisper, 'terribly dry.' When I ask what it is, she twists round - quite a complicated manoeuvre involving uncrossing her very long, very brown legs - and starts to laugh. So how did she come to star in Casino Royale as perhaps the most bewitching Bond girl ever? As John Preston discovers for The Telegraph, there's more to it than her exquisite good looks.Įarly on in my conversation with Caterina Murino my eye is caught by what appears to be a small cauldron on the dressing-table of her hotel room.Įvery so often it gives out a loud plop and a cloud of greenish gas rises into the air. Here Bond is aided by stunningly beautiful Bond Girl and British treasury operative Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), earnest CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and dapper MI6 agent Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), though Bond gets impatient when they cramp his style.Not so long ago Caterina Murino was penniless and living on yogurt. All of this is warm-up for the big showdown with the requisite dastardly, damaged villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), which centers around a high-stakes poker game. And then he destroys much of the Miami Airport in order to stop a bomb's explosion. First he chases one man through the 'Nambutu Embassy' in Madagascar, wreaking havoc and, as M puts it, violating 'the only inviolate rule of international relations.' Later, he beds a villain's wife (Caterina Murino) to extract information, leaving her open to terrible retribution. Bond's early 007 adventures involve all manner of brutality and rule-breaking, as he fixes on his targets with unshakable ferocity.

Starring Daniel Craig as Secret Agent 007, director Martin Campbell's CASINO ROYALE takes viewers back to James Bond's beginnings, when M ( Judi Dench) elevates him to the extra-special rank of 007.

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