Sévérine "Tomorrow Never Dies", Lisa Funnell dismissed Sévérine as based on outdated ideas. Sévérine Sévérine is a fictional character who appears in the 23rd "James Bond" film "Skyfall" (2012). Played by Bérénice Marlohe, Sévérine is a former sex slave who works as an accomplice of Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem). She collaborates with James Bond (Daniel Craig) to stop her boss, but is captured and killed by Silva. Marlohe had secured the role after two auditions for director Sam Mendes and casting director Debbie McWilliams. She looked to Xenia Onatopp as a point of inspiration for her performance. Distancing herself from the
Culture of the United Kingdom drama "The King's Speech" (2010), featuring Colin Firth as George VI, received several awards. Acclaimed for his motion capture work, in 2011 actor Andy Serkis opened his own motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London. In 2012, the twenty-third "James Bond" film "Skyfall" was the highest-grossing film in the UK at that point. In 2013, British visual effects company Framestore, under chief supervisor Tim Webber and film producer David Heyman, produced the critically acclaimed space epic "Gravity". In 2014, the film biopics on two British scientists (Hawking and Turing), "The Theory of Everything" and "The Imitation Game", both achieved