While some Bond Girls just fade away, a few—like slinky, savvy Famke Janssen—parlay their Bondness into post-007 success. The scene in 1995’s GoldenEye in which Janssen (as ball-bustin’ aviatrix Xenia Onatopp) wraps her mighty thighs around Bond and squeezes him to the brink of death is something most guys don’t soon forget. But Janssen has brains and survival instincts to rival those thighs, which may be why her film career is booming, with four movies hitting theaters this year—notably The Gingerbread Man, Noose and the big-budget Deep Rising. Recently we sat down with the Dutch-born actress to bask in her still-radiant Bondness and squeeze her for a few answers. Here’s what we learned: 1) Never answer the door in a towel; 2) When Famke says no, she means no; 3) Famke says no a lot; and 4) We love her anyway.

Maxim: If I ask the wrong question during this interview, will you kill me?

FJ: That’d be a little extreme.

M: Are you tired of fielding stupid questions just because you’re a former Bond Girl?

FJ: [It’s annoying] when people go, “Oh, are you that Bond chick?” But most of the time I just think that GoldenEye has given me so many opportunities and roles like the one in Noose, where I play an Irish-American trash bag.

M: Sounds attractive. Did you consider your character’s inability to kill Bond a personal failure?

FJ: It would be really sad if I took it that seriously, wouldn’t it?

M: You once said that men are intimidated by you because they think that you’ll get them into trouble. What kind?

FJ: They wouldn’t even know what hit them. I’m nothing but trouble.

M: What kinds of men do you like?

FJ: I like very intelligent, funny men. If they’re good-looking, that’s a plus. If they’re young, that’s another.

M: And what repels you?

FJ: Idiots, playboys, and people who have no sense of humor and care too much about the way they look.

M: Do you carry cyanide capsules around in your purse?

FJ: No.

M: What was your worst dating experience?

FJ: I was living in Amsterdam. I couldn’t have been more than 14, and he was much older. I went over to his apartment and he opened the door wearing a towel. I remember thinking, Oh, that’s gross.

M: Why didn’t your character, Xenia, run 007 off the road when she had the chance in GoldenEye?

FJ: Have you ever watched a cat play with a mouse? They’ll play with it for a long time. It’s not really about the killing; it’s more about the playing. That’s the way I felt.

M: As a model, you made $10,000 a day. What was the most outrageously expensive thing you ever bought?

FJ: A cashmere blanket for my bed.

M: How much did you blow on that?

FJ: Thousands. [Laughs]

M: Do you know how much a quart of milk costs in the supermarket?

FJ: Like…89¢? Maybe 69¢.

M: You were a literature major at Columbia. Do you write poetry?

FJ: Yes.

M: Would you agree to give $5 to whichever one of our readers writes you the loveliest poem?

FJ: [repeats the question skeptically, then] OK, yes.

M: Can I have $5?

FJ: Why? You didn’t even write me a poem.

M: So I can go buy a beer with five bucks that was given to me by a Bond Girl.

FJ: [calculates, frowns] I’m already $10 down.

M: Who do you find more annoying, Pauly Shore, Robin Williams, or Sally Field?

FJ: Pauly Shore. [Laughs]

M: If you ever achieve global domination, would you like to imprison Pauly Shore in a dungeon for life?

FJ: Well, I don’t know that I’d have such a violent reaction…He’s got a funny hairdo or something, right?

M: Let’s play word association. I’m going to say a word.

FJ: OK.

M: Clambake.

FJ: Clambake? Nothing comes to mind.

M: If you didn’t have a boyfriend and I asked you out on a date tonight, what would you say?

FJ: No.

M: Can I please have $5?

FJ: I’ll give you five bucks if you really want it.

M: Yeah, I do. I really want it.

FJ: OK. You’ve got your five bucks. I’ll give you whatever I have. [Opens her purse] Look at that, $5!