Eva Green Vesper Lynd in the "James Bond" film "Casino Royale" (2006). Casino Royale (2006 film) Green was approached in mid-2005 but turned it down. Principal photography was already underway, and director Martin Campbell said casting the role was difficult because "we didn't have the final script and a Bond girl always had the connotation of tits 'n' ass." Campbell saw Green's performance in the director's cut of "Kingdom of Heaven", and approached Green again. She read the script, and found the character of Vesper far deeper than most Bond girls. Green's performance was well received: "Entertainment Weekly" called her the fourth-best
SMERSH (James Bond) grafts, signs of the wound remain in later Bond books). Then, at the end of the novel, Bond's lover and fellow agent Vesper Lynd—in fact a Soviet double agent—commits suicide when she learns that a SMERSH agent has her under surveillance and that the organisation is planning to kill her. As a result of her death, Bond swears vengeance upon SMERSH, which he calls "the threat behind the spies, the threat that made them spy". His revenge begins in the second novel, "Live and Let Die", wherein he becomes highly interested in disrupting Mr. Big's financing of Soviet operations upon