freida pinto confirmed as next bond girl

Stunning Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has landed a multi-million pound deal to be the next Bond girl.

As she prepares to join the ranks of screen beauties Ursula Andress, Diana Rigg and Britt Ekland, Freida is looking forward to her biggest payday yet with the 007 assignment.

The Mumbai beauty, who was a key member of the Slumdog cast which won 10 Oscars last year, is set to sign the money-spinning deal thought to be worth 3million. Freida, dating her Slumdog co-star Brit Dev Patel, is said to be "ecstatic" after she was approached to star in 007's next movie mission, to be directed by Sam Mendes.

And US actress Olivia Wilde, star of TV's House, is in negotiations to play the other lead female role in the 23rd Bond flick, set in Afghanistan.

A source said: "Sam has been talking about Bond for months now and is so excited about it.

"The project has been in the pipeline for months and Freida was always the dream Bond girl, but initially she was nervous about accepting it. This is going to be the most ambitious 007 yet. Sam plans to reinvent the genre.

"Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, has penned the first draft of the script and it promises to be visually stunning.

"It will be a typically glamorous and raunchy role and Dev has been joking to friends he is cool with seeing Freida rolling around with 007."

Olivia, 25, has been approached to play a double-crossing UN worker based in Afghanistan. She is best known for playing Dr Hadley in Howuse but recently finished filming on new movie Tron Legacy, starring opposite Michael Sheen and Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges.

The new Bond movie, due to begin production later this summer, will be shot in Buckinghamshire's Pinewood studios and on location in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Signing Freida to star beside Daniel Craig's 007 will come as a great boost to British director Mendes, who this week announced his split from Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/03/20/from-mumbai-with-love-007-115875-22125171/

This is the hot topic in UK right now.Most of the channels are reporting this news.she would be getting 25 crs for this film....im very proud of her

Oh wow.......... you go girl !! 👍🏼

Good for her, lets hope she does a better job at it than olga kurylenko.

eww how can she be the next bond girl they could have chosen bipasha basu or priyanka chopra or lara dutta man choose sumone who suits or they could have just chosen one of their hollywood ppl why her come on

Originally posted by: simi rocks

eww how can she be the next bond girl they could have chosen bipasha basu or priyanka chopra or lara dutta man choose sumone who suits or they could have just chosen one of their hollywood ppl why her come on

Sorry to break your bubble but Lara, Bipasha, Priyanka have no international standing. Hobnobbing with Gerard Butler or kissing Ronaldo(?) and winning international pageants does not qualify you to be a bond girl. Right now, Freida is the only popular actress of Indian origin whose stardom has skyrocketed so ofcourse filmmakers will take advantage of this. Besides, bond girls are supposed to have exotic looks and appeal to the "western" audience which is exactly what Frieda offers and the fact that she is already known in the fashion circles helps her case too.

Thanx

u go girl.

oh wow..!!!..well,i hope she's required to act in the movie..m still to see her acting..!!

oh wow!! i have mixed feelings about this.

But best of luck to her...looking forward to it.

:-)

Sometimes I feel she is to lucky. This girl got one role, after that one role, she become international famous. She didn't show to much of her acting skills, now she is playing in one of the most hollywood movies. This is what I call born to be lucky!!!