Bond girl the female lead in "Casino Royale" (2006) was hindered by potential actresses' concerns about the effect that playing the role might have on their careers. At that point, some thought that the Bond series had become stale and would therefore be a less desirable vehicle for young actresses. Nevertheless, the up-and-coming actress Eva Green agreed to play the role of Vesper Lynd, and showed those fears to be unfounded when she won BAFTA's Rising Star Award for her performance. Rosamund Pike, who made her feature film debut as Miranda Frost in "Die Another Day" (2002), went on to earn an
Eva Green curse turns Johnny Depp's character into a vampire in Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows". In 2014, she played Artemisia in the "300" sequel, "" for which she received excellent reviews. Rafer Guzman in his "Newsday" review stated, "The one bright spot is Eva Green as Xerxes' machinator, Artemesia, a raccoon-eyed warrior princess... Green plays a snarling, insatiable, self-hating femme fatale and completely steals the show." Stephanie Zacharek writing for "The Village Voice" exclaimed, ""Rise of an Empire" might have been essentially more of the same, but for one distinction that makes it 300 times better than its predecessor: Mere mortals of