British actress Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott is no stranger to James Bond: in her 2020 film Nemesis she shared the screen with veteran actor Julian Glover, best known as the villain of the piece in the 1981 spy classic For Your Eyes Only. Since then she has worked with Lee Majors, Danny Trejo and Michael Paré. Now Jeanine is starring in her own spy movie, Knightfall, and her love interest is none other than Sir Roger Moore’s son, Geoffrey.

In Knightfall Jeanine plays Ros Knight, an MI5 bio weapons export called into a back ops raid on an arms deal which goes wrong, leaving her and her boyfriend Hugh (Moore) with targets on their backs. On the run and in the line of fire they head to the remote country home of Ros’ estranged father: disgraced legendary spy catcher Charles Knight (Ian Ogilvy) to make a stand against the ruthless mercenaries on their trail.

Moore’s casting – he was a child actor, even appearing opposite his father in Sherlock Holmes in New York – and starred in a number of movies including Fire Ice & Dynamite – has given the film some early buzz and it offers a timely reminder of the long gap between modern James Bond movies.

Jeanine has her own views on the future of Britain’s most successful movie franchise - “I think they have taken James Bond as far as they can down the Daniel Craig route, he’s a great actor but it isn’t my idea of Bond any longer. Growing up on the classic seventies and eighties Bond movies, my expectations are a charming, impeccably dressed smoothie who can save the world without spilling his martini. The world is dark enough at the minute, I think people crave escapism and fantasy not doom and gloom. When you see Roger Moore or Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan come on screen, they light up the room – star quality, magnetism, call it what you will – the Bond role was never about angst and acting, it was about being a star.”

Jeanine also has nothing but praise for her Knightfall leading man “Geoffrey is a real old fashioned matinee idol. He’s very warm, very musical and great fun to be around. And he has the best showbusiness stories – Frank Sinatra was his Godfather! We had a ball making Knightfall and I’m sure Hollywood will be calling him once it’s released. He just has so much charisma.”

Jeanine can next be seen in Helloween, described as a mixture of The Purge and The Terrifier, in which she plays a doctor trying to stop a murderous uprising during the 2016 ‘killer clown’ craze. She also recently starred opposite Martin Kemp in serial killer horror Doctor Plague, which also featured another James Bond alumni – David Yip appeared in A View To A Kill.

Knightfall will be released in 2025.