So many reviewers savaged Denise Richards’ casting, yet the script called for a nuclear scientist named Christmas Jones capable of passing for a high-class prostitute to a Russian black-market gangster. To those reviewers, I ask: Who would you have cast?

The World Is Not Enough 1999
Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, and Denise Richards.