Angelina wants to play Bond

Angelina Jolie has admitted that she was approached to be a Bond girl in Casino Royale, but that she offered to play Bond instead!

The sexy star recalls a meeting with Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a few years back when amongst other projects they discussed the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale.

“We had this lovely, playful talk about the fact that I would have preferred to have played Bond,” she laughs.

“I think they were thinking that maybe I could play the girl in the movie but actually, I was pregnant at the time and I couldn’t have done it. And it wasn’t right for me – the people they cast in Casino Royale were perfect for it. But I guess the idea stuck with Amy because years later she called me and said ‘I think I’ve found it…"

The ‘it’ in question was Salt, her eagerly awaited spy thriller originally written for a male actor. Pascal reasoned – and Jolie agreed – that the script could skilfully be adapted to make the protagonist, a CIA agent accused of being a sleeper spy for the Russians, into a female lead.

“Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that. She’s just Salt. It’s not about being a female and she certainly doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything in the film,” says Jolie.