A Promising Start
Making your debut as an actress is never easy, but if you do it hand in hand with one of the Italian references of the last century, Bernardo Bertolucci, the pressure is maximum. That's what Eva Green must have thought before her first film, "Dreamers", where she played Isabelle, a beautiful young woman who invites a stranger she just met at a movie theater to her apartment, to get to know each other S-. all this together with his brother who is also in a house where his parents are not.
Her challenge was double because, to her demanding debut with Bertolucci, we must add an erotic role in which modesty has to stay in her dressing room. However, Eva Green managed with great charisma and impudence to lead an entire cult film valued by critics and that has left us with some of the most suggestive snapshots of the actress, who was 23 years old at the time. A great debut that laid the foundations for what was to come.
The Leap to the Mainstream
After making the audience fall in love with "Dreamers" and leaving a movie called "Arsene Lupine" much more forgettable, Eva Green would receive the call from Ridley Scott for "The Kingdom of Heaven", a whole blockbuster in which the French would have to play Sybilla, in a star-studded cast including Orlando Bloom in top form after "The Lord of the Rings"; and Jeremy Irons, one of the best actors of her generation. Eva Green got another more than convincing performance, along the lines of what was seen in "Sonadores", to fully enter the media front line and thus make herself known to the general public.
From Heaven to Bond Girl
And it is that that role in "The Kingdom of Heaven" would be worth the ticket to play one of the most sought-after characters in cinema, Bond Girl, and would also do so in one of the highest quality franchise films. , "Casino Royale", directed by Martin Campbell. Here she played Vesper Lynd, a double agent who was already played in 1967 by Ursulla Andrews and with whom the Frenchwoman brought out her most seductive side, blending in perfectly with Daniel Craig and thus leaving one of the most sought-after films of the famous British agent.
Penny Dreadful, her consecration
And, although she already had a name to spare in the world of cinema, she wanted to try the world of series starring in "Penny Dreadful", a dark Victorian drama in which she goes off the screen. This is when we already see a fully consecrated Eva Green capable of being the beacon of an entire front-line television project. The series has been so successful that a spin-off called "City of Angels" starring Natalie Dormer ("Game of Thrones") is already on the air, following the success of its predecessor.
His latest projects have been "Dumbo", directed by Tim Burton, in an aesthetic, that of the director, in which he completely fits, and "Based on true events", for me, one of his best performances in which Eva Green plays a young woman who becomes obsessed with a famous writer to the point of haunting her life. One of those movies that will leave you thinking for a while and that you can watch on Netflix. Right now, and as we have mentioned before, you can see Eva Green in "The Luminaries", the new HBO original series.
