New Bond Villain Goes Subprime

Gone are the days of James Bond villains with bleeding eyes or scars and fluffy cats — the fictional super-spy’s latest adversary has been given a contemporary twist for the subprime era.

Mathieu Amalric, who plays nefarious businessman Dominic Greene in the new Bond adventure ‘Quantum of Solace’, will have no physical villain traits and says his evil character’s anonymity makes him all the more real — and frightening.

“It’s so difficult to know who are the villains today. They look like wallpaper,” Amalric, one of Frances leading screen stars, said during an interview with Reuters on a remote desert mountainside in northern Chile that will serve in the movie as an eco-tourism hotel and his lair.

“Maybe they’re in banks, maybe they are the insurance companies, maybe they’re in labs, even in the subprime crisis,” he said.

Via Reuters