| “ | So, Mr. Bond, shall we discuss your next performance over that drink? | „ |
| ~ Sévérine, flirting with Bond |
Sévérine is a supporting anti-heroine in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall.
She is the enigmatic, quiet, soft-spoken, seductive, and troubled fictional representative of terrorist and SPECTRE member Raoul Silva, she appares as a classic femme fatale, Sévérine's dark and sinister past is catching up with her and initially posing as a potential enemy to James Bond, she soon realizes he is probably her best opportunity of a way out of the dangerous world she is living in.
She was portrayed by Bérénice Marlohe.
History[]
In the beginning at the age of twelve Sévérine had become a prostitute, only to be found by Raoul Silva, who saves her from this life but forces her to work for him to pay off the debt.
Bond meets Sévérine in Shanghai, as he pursues the mercenary Patrice, who appears to be in league with the woman. Bond meets her again at a casino, where he offers her a drink. Sévérine reveals to Bond that he is about to be killed, but agrees to help him if he kills Silva by making an appointment on her sailboat. Bond seems not to have made it, and Sévérine seems to be sorry. As she takes a shower, Bond appears behind her and the two kiss and presumably make love.
Bond and Sévérine are discovered by Silva, who ties Bond up and talks to him, while the woman is brutally beaten by her minions. Silva then proposes a challenge to Bond: he will have to hit a glass placed on the head of Sévérine, who has been tied up. Either so as not to hurt her, or because the wound he had made in Istanbul still hurts him, Bond misses the mark by several centimeters higher. Now it's Silva's turn, who sadistically shoots Sévérine in the face. The woman's death will not be left untouched: Bond will kill Silva at the end of the film, as he had promised her.
