Overview
- In a new interview cited by multiple outlets, Janssen says the 'Bond Girl' title was demeaning and she initially hesitated to take GoldenEye.
- She explains that she improvised Xenia Onatopp’s heightened, pleasure-in-violence persona to make the character memorable, noting the approach could have failed.
- After the film, she says she was offered mostly narrow roles—“any woman with a gun”—and chose lower-profile projects to avoid typecasting.
- Her career choices moved from independent films like City of Industry and The Gingerbread Man to later turns in the X‑Men and Taken franchises.
- She is now starring in Netflix’s Amsterdam Empire, which reports describe as her first screen role performed entirely in Dutch.