“She’s just a woman trying to understand why her husband is so bad to her.” She doesn’t try to kill James Bond, she doesn’t use her beauty for seducing him,” explains Murino, decked out head to toe in Dolce & Gabbana and Chaumet jewels. Murino braved the Bahamas shoot, sans stunt person, and made her mark in some steamy, albeit brief scenes opposite Bond, with whom she cheats on her villainous husband. So imagine the actress’ shock when she not only got the role, but discovered her first scene involved a horse. “I think he is completely crazy because he was still very interested in seeing me again. “I was full of drugs, of cortisone, just to not feel the pain,” recalls Murino, who walked in to meet director Martin Campbell in a near-catatonic state. The Sardinian beauty, who stars as Solange, one of three new Bond girls opposite Daniel Craig, had been thrown from a horse the day before her audition, breaking a rib and injuring her back. Caterina Murino’s opening scene in “Casino Royale,” in which she enters on horseback in a bikini, might make male hearts race, but for the actress, the experience was far from fantasy-inducing.