If
you are not a follower of James Bond movies, probably you are not familiar with
following characters: Pussy Galore (Goldfinger, 1964), Plenty O’Toole (Diamonds
Are Forever, 1971), Kissy Suzuki (You Only Live Twice, 1964) and Chew Mee (The
Man With A Golden Gun, 1974). Yes they are just 4 of the 75, as of this
writing, James Bond girls from over 50 years of the 007 movie series. A Bond
girl is a love interest and/or female partner or antagonists of cinema’s most
loved secret agent and guessing from the names I cited above, occasionally
they, the girls, have names with double meanings, if not outright naughtiness. The
name Kissy Suzuki for instance, titillates Filipino males.
In
her TV interview aired over Good Morning America last Tuesday, Pia
Alonzo-Wurtzbach, the 26-year-old actress-beauty queen expressed her desire to
the next Bond girl. She said, “Of course,
that’s one of my dreams. Hopefully, I’d be able to do that.” Well, the
idea, for now, is archive –bound for Alonzo-Wurtzbach has just started her very challenging job as Miss U.
Should
this happen, Alonzo-Wurtzbach would be the second Bond girl with Filipino roots. Being the first was Rachel Grant, a half-Filipino and half-English. Grant, starred
in “Die Another Day” in 2002 as Peaceful Fountains of Desire, a Chinese agent
disguised as a masseuse.
It is said that Grant, born September 25, 1977, specializes in Filipino martial
art called Arnis under the tutelage of Dan Inosanto, real-life buddy of the
late Bruce Lee.
Let us go back to Ms. Alonzo-Wurtzbach, the third Filipina to get the most coveted Miss
Universe title, and her dream of becoming a Bond girl. Truly, almost all of the ingredients of
a Bond lady is within her: full of glamour, sophistication, dressed in mystery
and charm. She already been in 4 movies in the past namely, Kung Ako Na Lang
Sana (2003), All My Life (2004) and All About Love (2006) aside from appearing
in many TV soap operas, it certainly would not be very hard for her to act.
Philippines’
second Miss U, Margie Moran (now Floriendo), in case you do not know, only appeared in a movie once. Moran’s self-titled film was Oh, Margie Oh (1974), a musical
comedy flick directed by Paul Silos with Victor Laurel and Celia Rodriguez as
her co-starrers. Well, do I need to say that Gloria Diaz accumulated more or
less seventy movies to her credit since she won the 1969 Miss Universe pageant? Most memorable of all is her first film Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
(1974) as Isabel (Is this the reason why her child was named Isabelle [Daza]?)
and as Matilde in Carlo J. Caparas’ Andres de Saya (1980).
Since
the Bond girls are favourite topics of speculation, let us speculate what character
Pia would be portraying if in case she appears as Bond girl in the future. Will
she have to bed Bond (like the other Bond girl) or strongly act as a sex-appeal
oozing side kick or be his brutally beautiful villain like May Day (A View To
Kill, 1985) or Xenia Onatopp (Golden
Eye, 1995) with her powerful legs squeezing her preys to death. Any which way
would be something to look forward to.
If
Pia Alonzo-Wurtzbach would land in a Bond movie in the future, she will be the
first Miss Universe to join the elite ranks of Bond girls. Who knows? But
meantime, let us anticipate more about her homecoming this January 23. That
will be a very great day, I know…
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