
In ‘No Time to Die,’ Daniel Craig’s James Bond Goes Out With a Whimper “Women in general, we all have these stories… When it comes to real people whose lives you are affecting in your work and the choices you make at work, there’s no consequence.” “I’ve had this story and I’ve had more stories of things that have happened to me in this industry over the years,” Greer adds. He knew.” (Multiple requests for comment to Fukunaga’s representatives went unanswered HBO declined comment for this story.) “That was the human element that was missing that is so hurtful to me, that you could just look at somebody-a young girl who is starting out in her career who doesn’t want to show everything she’s got naked on camera spur of the moment, and you can’t understand that? He knew that he wasn’t doing above board. Yes, he has had an illustrious career-that was a star-maker for him, and what happened to me? Nobody cares.” “And now, Cary is out here talking about his female characters-it’s like another slap in the face over and over and over. “You can’t just treat people like all you are is a pair of tits, that is very hurtful. It felt bad,” says Greer, who went on to small acting roles in American Horror Story and Magic Mike XXL. “That wouldn’t fly today,” Fukunaga explained, adding that he brought on Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge to help strengthen the script and to ensure the film’s “female characters more than just contrivances.” But it recently bubbled to the surface again after she came across an interview that director Cary Joji Fukunaga had given to The Hollywood Reporter, where he spoke of his efforts to bring the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, into a post-#MeToo world.Ĭontemporary audiences could never stomach Bond forcing women to have sex with him despite their protestations. The reason for her dismissal? Greer says she refused to go topless in a scene after it was suddenly sprung upon her, despite it not being part of her contract and repeated guarantees that she wouldn’t have to be nude.Īlthough it’s been roughly eight years since then, Greer told The Daily Beast the incident has always weighed heavily on her. Humiliated and outraged, Greer retreated to a friend’s house to cry after abruptly being fired from the show.
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It was minor, but in the then 24-year-old’s eyes, nabbing a part in a buzzy new HBO series and working alongside Woody Harrelson just might be the stepping stone to something bigger.īut she says those earnest hopes were dashed by the time she left set.



When actress Raeden Greer was offered a small speaking role in True Detective, she was ecstatic.
