Dr. Christmas Jones

Tiffani Amber Thiessen revealed in a recent interview that she came close to becoming a James Bond girl, making it to the final three actresses for a role in a Bond movie.

While she didn't specify the movie or the character, it's speculated that she auditioned for the role of Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.

Ultimately, Denise Richards got the part, who ironically was on Saved by the Bell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then Wild Things, then, then, um, Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough, '99.

Awful.

She is so bad in that movie.

I think I text you back.

There are characters named Pussy Galore and Christmas Jones in this franchise.

Christmas Jones is just so they can make the joke about unwrapping his Christmas gift.

Yes, I know.

And like I said, I was expecting a lot of the misogyny that I was not expecting what essentially boils down to a non-consensual sexual act.

I don't know, but it's, it's so funny because the Bond girl of it all, you know? Um, or, like, the Bond wife.

It woulda been, it would've felt very Bond girly if Tom Cruise had been playing Salt and that, like, the, that character had been his wife, just because I'm getting very, like, Dr. Christmas Jones vibes of, like, a woman being introduced, like, probably, it'd probably be a better-known actress too.

Um- Just being introduced as, like, the number one, like, arachnologist, you know?

[laughs]

You know, where you're like, this person is-

Christmas Jones.

Yeah, this person is too hot for this occupation.

Yes.

You know? And I, I don't know that that's quite what I'm getting from, from this character design, but I think if it had been Dr.

Christmas Jones, and you were like, "You're only here because you look great in a tank top," um, I don't know if that's the show that Slow Horses wants to be, but I think that's the story of Emma Flyte-

Right

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on is this my mark uh so denise richards before we get into this i just i bring this up literally every chance i get i think denise richards had the best run of anybody has ever in the history of film with starship troopers wild things this and the world is not enough i think it is the greatest four movie run that anybody has ever had

I still am pissed off that Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for being a nuclear scientist and she didn't win it for being nuclear scientist Christmas Jones.

Justice for Christmas Jones.

Thank you.

You know, she's so Christian.

Till then, everything was great, but the submarine sequence is, I think, one of the worst James Bond sequences ever designed.

And also, there's a double entendre joke, because Dennis Richard's name is Christmas Jones, so obviously, even when I was young, I understood what that was all about.

But anyway, I was already in high school, so we already had cross-puberty and learning about...

I'm going to stop now.

that's a little bit of a reach.

But it doesn't really get bad until you get down to Christmas Jones, the nuclear physicist, Denise Richards,

playing a nuclear physicist.

And she's got the tightest top and the tiniest little skirt.