She’s a femme fatale with as many female admirers as male ones, a Bondgirl who all but ate Bond for breakfast. Green is an enigma, hiding in plain sight.
Whether she’s an American housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown in White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), or fixing those deep turquoise eyes on her oppressors in the revenge western The Salvation (2014), or wrestling demons in the TV series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), it’s impossible to tear your gaze away. There are few experiences in modern cinema quite as intoxicating as watching Eva Green behaving badly.