Bond girl Kurylenko comes from Russia with love

Posted by mija on Oct 14, 2008 in News | 0 comments

It was a case of “to Russia with love” today as the stars of the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace arrived in Moscow on Monday.
This is their first stop on a worldwide tour with the film due for actual release in Russia on 6 November.
All eyes today were on Olga Kurylenko, the supermodel turned actress, who becomes a Bond girl for the spy’s 22nd movie mission.
Olga says that her character is a force to be reckoned with:
“Camille is a quite strong woman and she’s very independent. She carries a wound which comes from her childhood, because there’s something very terrible that happened to her when she was a little girl and basically everything she focuses on is revenge connected to this event and basically that’s her motivation in the movie.”
The Bond movie took Kurylenko to such exotic locations such as Panama, Mexico and Chile, a world away from her humble beginnings in a provincial town in southern Ukraine.
Located on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, Berdyansk is a small town of less than 130,000 people.
And it was in School 16 that Olga’s acting career first started.
The School’s deputy director Nina Monenko proudly shows visitors black and white photos of Olga clad in a dark-brown dress, a white apron, and two big white bows in her hair.
Kurylenko, lived with her mother, a painting teacher at her school, and grandmother, a doctor in a three-room apartment not far from the centre of the town.
Acting soon became a great passion and teachers talk of the young Olga playing various roles in school productions.
Another, black-and-white photo, shows Kurylenko during a theatre performance half-sitting, half-lying on a chair, squeezed between two other students and munching on what appears to be an apple.
Her star rose after she was spotted by a model scout in the subway in Moscow, where she was on vacation.
At the time she was too young to start work and returned to Berdyansk to finish her schooling.
And Kurylenko, who also appeared in action movies Hitman and Max Payne, is still touched to hear of her old teachers, even though she rarely gets to go home.
The girl from humble beginnings now lives in Paris and is set to become one of the most famous women in the world.
Quantum of Solace is having it’s world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 29 October.
It is scheduled to open in New Zealand on 4 December 2008 .
source: 3news.co.nz