8/11/2023 0 Comments A view to a kill streaming![]() ![]() In action: Tanya (right) starred in the television series Charlie's Angels as Julie Rogers. 'I think it's better to come into the limelight really slowly and do a broader range of roles, but I took these glamorous roles and I think that stereotyped me. 'Before James Bond I'd been in Charlie's Angels, which pigeon-holed me, so it was always going to be hard to get myself out of that pigeon hole after that. 'I had just done a movie called The Beastmaster with all these wild animals and Humphrey Burton just called me in for a meeting and that was that. Roberts' career was just beginning to takeoff when she was called in to audition for the role as the beautiful granddaughter of an oil tycoon, Stacy Sutton. 'You can't go through life defeated, it's just trial and error.' Whether you're really successful or moderately successful, I'm sure that to get there you have made some bad decisions and good decisions on some level, but that's how I see life. 'I've made a lot of good choices and a lot of bad choices and that's part of life. 'I was very young and I did what I felt was the right choice to make. All you have to think to yourself is, 'Could I have been better in the part?' That's all you can say to yourself because turning the part down would have been ridiculous, you know? I mean nobody would do that, nobody. 'At the time I didn't know what I know now, and to be honest, who would turn that role down, really? 'And I thought to myself, well you can have regrets if you wish, but what's the point?' 'I remember I said to my agent, 'No one ever works after they get a Bond movie' and they said to me, 'Are you kidding? Glen Close would do it if she could'.īold warning: 'They sort of think you're some dumb, glamorous broad, so it's difficult, and I think that is the reason most Bond Girls don't go on to have careers after they have done the movie,' says Roberts of her role ![]() 'I sort of felt like every girl who'd ever been a Bond Girl had seen their career go nowhere, so I was a little cautious,' says Roberts. Three decades on Roberts has opened up about the 'curse' of playing the iconic 'Bond Girl' and says it does nothing but stereotype every actress that has the privilege of playing one. ![]() Roberts had previously graced television sets around the world as sultry Julie Rogers in the hit Charlie's Angels TV series, but when she was given the chance to play an iconic Bond Girl alongside Grace Jones, the actress had a sixth sense that it could ruin her career. The former model, now 60, says she has not landed a leading role in a movie in the 30 years since starring opposite Sir Roger Moore. ![]() Tanya Roberts, who starred in the 1985 Bond movie A View to a Kill, has warned the women that starring in the classic spy series left her pigeon-holed and lacking in movie offers.ĭespite the global attention that came her way when the film was released, Tanya tells Daily Mail Online the fame was short-lived. 'Bond' ambition: Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci sparkle on the red carpet at the premiere of Spectre in London last weekĪs Bond's love interests the two women are hot property right now and will see their photos fill the pages and front covers of publications all around the globe.īut for one former Bond girl the pair had best enjoy the limelight before it slips away. ![]()
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