Why Gemma’s not such a secret agent

Has the young British actress Gemma Arterton been miscast as a secret agent in the upcoming Bond film, Quantum of Solace? It seems the self-described "motor-mouth" has been chatting away to the press about plot lines. In recent interviews, the 22-year-old has revealed that her character must keep Daniel Craig's 007 under control "in Bolivia", that the villains are after "a lot of oil", and that she "sort of comes to a sticky end". Most important, she has said that her death scene is a "homage to something iconic".

Because Arterton (pictured) has also referred to the one-time Bond girl Diana Rigg as "iconic", this has led the Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw to muse: "This might mean the way Rigg, newly married to George Lazenby's Bond, expired in On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

As Bradshaw said, it appears no one has taken Arterton aside and whispered the name 'Tyler Nelson' in her ear. Nelson, as reported on The First Post last September, was a young extra on the set of Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He was cast as the 'dancing Russian soldier'. Despite signing a non-disclosure agreement along with the rest of the cast and crew, Nelson granted his local Oklahoma newspaper an interview and spilled the beans on various top secret plot lines: Indy, he revealed, was searching for a priceless crystal skull in the jungles of South America, the Russians take Indy hostage and he is grilled by Cate Blanchett playing an evil Russian torturer.

A furious Spielberg retaliated by cutting Nelson's one big scene and a spokesman for the director said ominously: “Who knows whether that particular person will ever work in this town again?”