Italian beauty
Caterina Murino yesterday spoke of her spectacular entrance as the latest Bond girl.
The actress arrives in the latest 007 movie Casino Royale astride a white stallion wearing a bikini. Set insiders say it is the most memorable entrance of any Bond girl since Ursula Andress famously emerged from the surf in 1962's Dr No.
The Sardinian-born former Miss Italy yesterday spoke of her first big-screen encounter with Daniel Craig who is making his debut as Britain's favourite secret agent.
She said "I'm on a beach in the Bahamas surrounded by sparkling green water, wearing a beautiful green bikini, while riding my horse.
"It's going to look great but I'm very afraid formy legs. "Riding a horse without boots for too long is not good for them."
Caterina, 28, insists her role as Solange, a femme fatale who enjoys a one-night stand with 007, is more than just eye-candy.
She said: "She's not the typical Bond Girl.
"She is a modern woman who is very sad because she's married to a very bad man.
"Then she meets James Bond, this very handsome guy who invites her for drinks.
"She ends up having great sex but unfortunately it's only for one night.
"But you don't see her with guns.
"My only action scenes are with my horse and maybe the sex scene."
French actress
Eva Green, 26, also makes her debut as a Bond girl in Casino
Royale.
She plays Vesper Lynd, a British Secret Service agent sent by London to keep tabs on the debonair OO7.
Eva said: "It's a very special, unusual relationship between the two of them.
"Vesper is the only woman who really gets to Bond's heart.
"Vesper has been warned about Bond so she's quite reluctant when she meets him and is definitely on her guard.
"They're like boxing partners always sparring and jabbing at each other.
"I really fell in love with the part when I read the script.
"It's such an unusual script and one of the best I've read for a long, long time.
"So I'm trying to find her humanity and how to make her more human.
"I'm trying to find her fragilities."
Couple of pictures of Catherina Murino's nude arriaval from French movie Des jours et des nuits when she goes for a nude skinnydipping in a pool.