Bond Girl, 1999, The World is Not Enough, portrayed by Denise Richards
What's your take on this Bond Girl? She's a nuclear physicist. That's right. I'm going to try not to "ask and answer" from which I'm trying to break my habit.
She seemed very stupid to be a nuclear scientist
shareIt seemed really out of place at the time, but after two decades of a propaganda campaign for putting unqualified women in STEM, it just looks normal.
shareJames Bond is a fantasy, or at least that era was.
The sexy scientist in a tank top and mini-shorts was one of the era's msle sex fantasies (see also Lara Croft, an archaeologist and so, technically, a scientist too).
I remember her being a big deal at the time (I was 12 in 99)
shareBetween 97 and 99 she was very popular.
She had all the hot male sexual fantasy roles in films like Starship Troopers, Wild Things, Drop Dead Gorgeous and The World Is Not Enough, where she either played the sexy scientist/genius type, or the rich bitchy bimbo. Then she pretty much disappeared.
Those were all pretty great, then she married Charlie Sheen. Coincidence?
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