Welcome to London, very exciting to be a part of the Bond franchise - what's it like being
cast as a Bond girl? Some of us can only aspire to be a Bond girl and you're actually going
to be one. What's that like?
It's great. It's fantastic and I think being a Bond girl is amazing and also because I'm
French - it's like wow - it's after Sophie Marceau and Eva Green and all of those wonderful
French actresses so it's 'wow', I'm a part of this.
Ah, you know. It's a great moment for me to be here and have the chance to work with Sam
Mendes, Daniel Craig, the amazing cast and I have so much respect for all those incredible
actresses that have been already James Bond girls, if I think about Sophie Marceau, Halle
Berry, Rosamund Pike and there are so many incredible and talented because as I say all
the time I think that if you're beautiful you get noticed, if you're talented you get hired.
So those girls have everything; beauty and talent. -And so do you because that's why
you've been hired. -Oh, you know, you have to ask Sam Mendes but it's a really great
honour for me.
What was your reaction like when you got the call to say you would be... -I was like...
and Sam said, "Yeah, so you're part of it" and I couldn't believe it.
So, finally we saw at the end of the film that you are Miss Moneypenny, such an iconic
role, where are you drawing your inspiration from? Are you looking back at the old Miss
Moneypenny, or are you kind of bringing your own thing to it?
I think bring my own thing to it. I think the whole thing about this movie is that it's
about - you know it's Bond but modernized and that's why I think Bonds have been so
successful over the years because they constantly reinvent themselves and that's what people
want; to make it relevant, so that's what I'm doing with Miss Moneypenny as well.
Is there competition between the Bond girls?
No, we love each other. We make love all together.
Don't tell the boys that. You're going to send them into overdrive.
You've come from being Bond girl in the last film, to Miss Moneypenny in this one, so you've
kind of made sure that your role stays in the film. -Yes! -How do you do that?
Just don't kiss Bond. If you kiss Bond, you've got to die. -How can you not kiss Bond? -I
know, it's really, really difficult, very, very hard but I managed it so they'd get me back.
So just don't kiss in this film either? -I'm going to try my best. Who knows.
You've spent a bit of time with Daniel because you're going to be spending quite a bit of
time with him on the film, what's that been like?
We did a few rehearsals and it was great. I was a little shy, like 'Oh, James Bond,
hello' and I was like 'James Bond. James Bond? Woah, I'm in a James Bond film'.
Can't be shy!
No but it's so great and he's such a great actor, all the actors.
Daniel is such a nice man, great actor and in our fantasy James Bond is the ideal man
- protector, generous, dangerous, sexy and the perfect English gentleman - so Daniel
is perfect. -He is, with a wonderful body to go with it.
It is very modern these days compared to the older Bonds, what direction to you see Spectre taking?
I think more of the same. I think what Sam wanted was that Spectre was a continuation
of the story of Skyfall, so you'll see a lot of the same themes, with Bonds past and so
on coming up again in this movie.
We can't say anything actually. We don't know anything, we can't say anything, the only
thing I can say is that my name is Lucia and I'm in the movie. -And that's it.
There's amazing locations... -And I didn't get to go on any of them. -How come? -I'm just in Pinewood.
I'm looking forward to staying here in London. -Everyone says that. -I love London. -We love
having you here. -I'd love to have some tea, scones...
They go off to Austria, which I don't mind because that's not going to be hot at this
time of year but then they go off to Italy, gorgeous Italy and also Mexico. It's very
unfair. -Well, we're really happy that you're here so at least we'll see a bit more of you.
-Thank you. -Good luck with the film. We're really looking forward to it. Thank you.