Dr. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) is Daniel Craig's Roger Moore's sixth and penultimate outing as James Bond, which was released in 1983. While Swann is a psychologist and Octopussy was an international jewel smuggler, the two Bond Girls nonetheless share a few notable similarities.
Introduced in 2015's new secrets Madeleine kept from James, which places his life in danger and brings him back into action.
Madeleine's backstory bears some curious similarities to the origin of Octopussy, the titular villainess of Roger Moore's 1983 Bond adventure. 007 encountered Octopussy in India, where she was the leader of an all-female Octopus Cult who took her name from her father's favorite pet, the blue-ringed octopus. Octopussy was d with an exiled Afghan prince-turned-criminal named Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan), who used Octopussy's traveling circus as a front to smuggle Faberge eggs to the Soviet Union. Though she led a life of crime, Octopussy was not actually evil and she eventually succumbed to her attraction to Bond, siding with 007 as he tried to stop Khan's plot to detonate a nuclear warhead at Octopussy's circus, which was being held in a U.S. airbase in West . Bond and Octopussy's dalliance only lasted the length of the film, however, and 007 moved on to new conquests.
Both Madeleine and Octopussy made their life choices based on their relationship with their fathers. Since she was a child, Swann was aware that her father was a criminal associated with Spectre and she even met Blofeld in her youth. Although she hates guns, Madeleine learned how to use one fearing one day it would be necessary, but she purposely distanced herself from Mr. White and never spoke to him as an adult. Similarly, Octopussy - her real name is Octavia Charlotte Smythe - is the daughter of one of James Bond's enemies; Dexter Smythe was a British traitor exposed by Bond. However, 007 allowed Smythe to save face by committing suicide rather than be taken into custody. This act of mercy towards her father indebted Octopussy to Bond and helped facilitate their ing forces against Kamal Khan. Both Mr. White and Dexter Smythe killed themselves in front of 007, leaving their daughters to pick up the pieces, albeit in very different ways.
Furthermore, Maud Adams and Lea Seydoux are part of an exclusive club of Bond Girls since they both star in two James Bond films, whereas most of the other actresses who play Bond Girls only appear in one film. As such, Adams and Seydoux Eunice Grayson, who played Sylvia Trench, The Man With The Golden Gun. Like Grayson, Seydoux is the rare Bond Girl who played the same character in two successive Bond movies - but, unlike Octopussy, Madeleine Swann is the most important and impactful woman in James Bond's life since Vesper Lynd (Eva Green).
