Tabloids claim Freida Pinto has signed as Bond girl despite denials from actress

Despite denials from the actress herself, tabloid newspapers are today climaing that Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has signed a contract to play the lead female role in the 23rd James Bond film.

The Daily Mirror claims: "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' told the tabloid trash department: "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."

The paper fails to cite quotes from Pinto herself, saying that the rumours are totally false and unsubstantiated, and that she feels she is too young to play opposite Daniel Craig. “I have no idea where that came from,” Freida shrugged, “even my LA agents were curious. But this is a Bond thing, it happens with a lot of actresses, or with those in the news"

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