Goldeneye Cameo Secretly Honors The First James Bond Girl

Goldeneye Cameo Secretly Honors The First James Bond Girl

Goldeneye included a key cameo linked to the first ever Bond girl as a nostalgic nod to the creation of one of James Bond’s most iconic lines.

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Goldeneye Cameo Secretly Honors The First James Bond Girl

A hidden cameo in Goldeneye doubly pays homage to the very first Bond girl. In the grand tradition of James Bond movies piling on nostalgia for fans of the long-running series – and usually being fairly showy about it, particularly in the Daniel Craig era films – the cameo of Kate Gayson is one of the most subtle, but also the most clever nods of all.

Pierce Brosnan’s first film as 007 after the underrated Timothy Dalton era ended in disappointing fashion, Goldeneye is widely held up as one of the best Bond films of all. Its merits are obvious, from the great, archetypal Bond theme from Tina Turner to the stunning opening sequence and great villains in Sean Bean’s Trevelyan and Famke Janssen’s Xenia Onatopp. What it mostly did well – and what set it apart from Dalton’s films (which were largely misunderstood as not strong adaptations) – was its eye on the past. Goldeneye knew where it came from, referencing in tone, spirit, and specifics.

Chief among those loving details but least admired, comparatively speaking, is the appearance of Gayson, who is, of course, the daughter of the first ever Bond girl Eunice Gayson, who played Sylvia Trench in the first two official Bond movies (though her voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl). But there’s actually more to the cameo than might be immediately obvious.

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Sylvia Trench is actually a key player in the Bond movie series, despite only appearing briefly because she’s arguably the source of his most famous catchphrase. When she sits opposite him at the Chemin table in Dr. No and Bond asks her name she replies with “Trench, Sylvia Trench” and when she asks him the same, he copies her delivery. He effectively stole his key line and Trench’s part in it is overlooked. Not by Goldeneye, though, which restates Trench’s importance by giving Eunice Gayson’s daughter a role.

Crucially, the cameo is about more than just the familial link: Kate Gayson appearing in the casino – the same location that her mother had – makes it doubly loaded. She may only be credited as Casino Girl for her performance in Goldeneye, but including her where her mother had debuted before her is a more important homage to Sylvia Trench’s key role in Bond’s history and a reminder of that line’s provenance.

Interestingly, Eunice Gayson’s Bond franchise history could have been even more different, as she was lined up to play Bond’s assistant Moneypenny before the role went to Lois Maxwell. She ended up playing recurring love interest Sylvia Trench opposite Sean Connery in both Dr. No and From Russia With Love and was actually planned to have an even more extended role in the franchise for at least six films. The plan would have seen her appear in the first films teasing her and Bond getting together, with Bond always called away at the final moment, before she’d graduate to the main Bond girl in her final appearance. Sadly, her character was dropped and Bond moved on to the more infamous one-and-gone bed-hopping approach of the rest of the series. But her importance was enough that Goldeneye immortalized it cleverly.

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