Vanity Fair : Cannes 2017 Naomie Harris “THE FACE OF”

Photograph by Justin Bishop. Harris wears Delpozo, Rupert Sanderson shoes, Swarovski accessories.

NAOMIE HARRIS

“THE FACE OF”

There is no better backdrop for luxury brands to showcase than at the Cannes Film Festival. Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, and Elizabeth Taylor juxtaposed fur and jewels with film and the French Riviera in iconic photographs. And now Naomie Harris, the Oscar-nominated actress and Skyfall’s own Eve Moneypenny, carries on the glamorous tradition of dazzling at Cannes.

Last week, Harris—who is brand ambassador for Atelier Swarovski—swept into the opening ceremony wearing the brand’s new sustainable line of fine jewelry. For someone like Harris, who is attending this year’s festival in her role as ambassador, the red carpet is the main event: “The most memorable moment for me was walking the red carpet—of course, in my Swarovski—and feeling confident, beautiful, and empowered.”

Monica Bellucci, Léa Seydoux, and Naomie Harris Shake Up the New James Bond Film - Vanity Fair

Monica Bellucci, Léa Seydoux, and Naomie Harris 

Shake Up the New James Bond Film

Monica Bellucci, Léa Seydoux, and Naomie Harris, photographed in the Hamilton Penthouse, at the Corinthia Hotel London.

Photograph by Bryan Adams.

A fierce trio offers a new take on the Bond woman in Spectre.

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• BRUCE HANDY

The term “Bond girl” is at least four decades past its sell-by date. So, the “Bond woman”: hers remains, arguably, the most narrowly prescribed role in movie history. Traditionally there have been two: a good-ish one, who is romanced and discarded by 007 early on, and a bad-ish, more intriguing one, who is eventually persuaded to join Her Majesty’s team and who may survive long enough to see the “JAMES BOND WILL RETURN . . . ” memo in the closing credits. Given those prerequisites, and given the series’s other obligations—martinis, swanky locales, a villain with mental-health issues—“doing a Bond is an act of reverse engineering in a sense.” Or so says director Sam Mendes. He is currently putting the finishing touches on the upcoming Spectre, the 24th “canonical” Bond film and Mendes’s 2nd, following 2012’s Skyfall, the series’s most lucrative yet. In that one, perhaps not coincidental to its success, Judi Dench’s M was a full-fledged co-star to Daniel Craig’s Bond—the ultimate Bond woman, boss as well as surrogate mum. We likely won’t see her kind again. Spectre, though, will try to keep pace by featuring three Bond women: the English actress Naomie Harris, returning for her second go-round as Eve Moneypenny, former field agent now sitting behind the late Lois Maxwell’s old desk; the Italian actress Monica Bellucci (Irréversible and the two Matrix sequels); and the French actress Léa Seydoux (Inglourious Basterds, Blue Is the Warmest Color). The latter two women play, respectively, the wife of an assassin and the daughter of another. “As such, they reflect Bond back to himself,” Mendes says. “I know it’s the cliché now to stoke up the roles of women in large commercial movies by saying, ‘They’re so strong’ and ‘They’re his equal.’ It’s quite difficult to construct roles which actually conform to that.” But with this trio, he continues, “I think the combination of the roles and their authority as actresses help massively the feeling that they’ve lived lives before meeting Bond. They’re not simply adjuncts” or “wide-eyed innocents jogging around after him, sort of just over his shoulder.” Yes, we knew the type.

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Naomie Harris Reveals Her Best Bond Girl Perk

Naomie Harris Reveals Her Best Bond Girl Perk

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• KATEY RICH

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Being a Bond girl comes with its own obvious perks—looking great while holding a weapon, close company with Mr. Bond himself, and an iconic role you can brag about for the rest of your life. But the wrap gift that Naomie Harris got after her work on Skyfall, from producer Barbara Broccoli, isn’t just the best wrap gift we’ve heard of—it sounds almost better than actually being a Bond girl in the first place.

Behind the scenes of our 2014 Hollywood Issue cover shoot, Harris talked to V.F.’s Krista Smith about whether she’d rather play the hero or the villain, which TV show she’d do a cameo for in a heartbeat, and the secrets you can learn from her Internet browser history. See it all in the video above, and for more from behind the scenes of the Hollywood issue cover shoot, take a look at the gallery below.

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Which TV Shows Are You Obsessed with?-2014 Hollywood Issue-Vanity Fair 

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Margot Robbie, Brie Larson, and more stars on our Hollywood Issue cover tell Krista Smith.

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What Can't George Clooney Do?-2014 Hollywood Issue-Vanity Fair

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We ask the stars from our Hollywood Issue cover the tough question: Is there anything George Clooney can't do? From beatboxing to beating up Chiwetel Ejiofor, they came up with some surprising answers.

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Video: Behind the Scenes of Annie Leibovitz's Cover Shoot for the 2014 Hollywood Issue-Vanity Fair

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Published on 4 Feb 2014

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Naomie Harris, the brainy British beauty starring in The First Grader - Vanityfair.com 20.5 2011

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Naomie Harris: The Teal Deal

Naomie Harris, the brainy British beauty starring in The First Grader.

By Krista SmithPhotograph by Miguel Reveriego

Naomie Harris, 34, has been acting in Britain since she was nine, and along the way she has managed to earn a degree in political science from Cambridge and has trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Director Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire)introduced her to international audiences in 2002 in 28 Days Later, his hit film about Londoners combating zombies. Most recently Harris starred in Boyle’s very successful production of Frankenstein at the U.K.’s National Theatre. “Danny is a complete and utter genius,” says Harris. “He is absolutely brilliant at giving notes: This is what you need to be giving the audience, this is what you need to be feeling.… You relax and let yourself be carried through the journey by him.” This month she stars in The First Grader (National Geographic Entertainment), which was an audience favorite at both the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Based on an article in the Los Angeles Times by Robyn Dixon, it is the story of a teacher in Kenya (Harris) who fights for the right of an 84-year-old villager to be educated despite his age. Justin Chadwick, who directed the award-winning British TV mini-series Bleak House and the movie The Other Boleyn Girl, filmed The First Grader entirely on location and used lots of local talent. The experience was exhilarating for Harris. “There was an incredibly generous spirit among these people,” she says. “At the start I was thinking, Oh, I’m going to work with these really poor children, and I’m going to be so affected by the fact that they have so little, when we in the West have so much. Actually, what I was struck by was they have so much, and we have so little. They have a strong sense of family, a strong sense of community—a real sense of belonging. I was incredibly touched by that.”