11 Things You Learn Rewatching Moonraker

8. Lois Chiles' Performance Is Distractingly Wooden

Moonraker Holly Goodhead
United Artists

Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) never really had a chance, did she? Cursed with one of the most infamously terrible names of any Bond girl, the character is nevertheless introduced as a smart, attractive, resourceful woman who coldly rebuffs Bond and wants to keep things strictly professional.

Though that disappointingly doesn't last long and Goodhead soon enough hops into bed with 007, what's worse is Chiles' disappointingly flat, awkward performance.

As both the more standoffish, serious Holly of the film's first act and the somewhat warmer heroine later on, she's just a bit of a bore.

Her facial expressions don't change much, her line readings are robotic, and as a result she delivers one of the more offputtingly stiff performances of any frontline Bond girl.

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