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9. Naomie Harris Is A Terrible Moneypenny
Here's something weird: Naomie Harris appears to be a terrible actress whenever she speaks in her native English accent. That's to say, if she's putting on an accent (say, an American one), something happens - she's totally transformed and becomes an entirely different person. And yet, as Moneypenny, her highest-profile role to date... well, she can't deliver a line to save her life. The weird thing is that nobody seems to have really picked up on this; either that or folk are just pretending not to notice that Harris' delivery of pretty much all of her lines comes with an added cringe-factor. She was flat in Skyfall and though she was a tad better in Spectre, she didn't make it work there, either. There's just something unexplainably awkward about every single one of her line readings (check her out in this James Bond Sony advert - awful!). Nevermind that she's supposed to be a new, modern Moneypenny - it has nothing to do with the character. Just that Harris can't pull it off. And nobody wants to acknowledge it.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.