United Kingdom, Nov. 5 -- Famke Janssen feared being a Bond Girl could have ruined her career.

The 61-year-old actress landed her big break in Hollywood when she was cast as Xenia Onatopp opposite Pierce Brosnan as 007 in 1995's GoldenEye, but Famke now admits she had reservations about the role and her take on the character could easily have "failed".

She told the Guardian newspaper: "I was very aware of the pitfalls of being a model-turned-actor-turned-Bond girl. I thought 'Bond girl' was such a demeaning term.

"But I thought: 'I have nothing to lose; if I do this, I'm going to go all the way.' So I came up with a lot of the things that are now in the film, because I wanted to make a memorable character, not play her the way she was ...