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Why Eva Green has Hollywood’s most notorious breasts

When your subtitle is “A Dame To Kill For,” you can’t just cast any ol’ actress. She needs to be so seductive that men would literally murder for her.

You might not kill for Eva Green, but you’d probably steal a car.

The 34-year-old, French-born actress and former model takes center stage in this weekend’s “Sin City” sequel, playing a femme fatale.

“Eva just completely won me over with those green eyes of hers,” says “Sin City” creator and co-director Frank Miller.

Green in NYC in MayWireImage

All true, but if we’re really being honest, they probably searched for something else, as well: someone who looks good naked.

Green does. Like everything in “Sin City,” she’s a comic-book character come to life, with proportions that would seem only to exist on the page of a comic book read by horny adolescent boys.

And unlike many of her Hollywood contemporaries — both male and female — Green doesn’t seem to have compunctions about stripping her clothes for the camera. She broke through with 2003’s NC-17 “The Dreamers,” directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and hasn’t put on clothes since.

“She’s French,” says Jim McBride, founder of Mr. Skin, a Web site dedicated to celebrity nudity. “They’ll usually do five or six nude scenes before they’re 25 years old.”

Green has been naked so often, it’s kind of become her thing. Her body even caused a bit of an uproar in May when ratings agency MPAA failed to approve the “A Dame To Kill For” poster showing Green wearing a see-through nightgown with nothing on underneath. The image was later altered to make the gown less sheer.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForDimension Films

“It seems like it’s all just publicity — a lot of noise for nothing,” she told Vanity Fair of the controversy.

Which it may have been. The Weinstein Company, which is releasing “Sin City,” has been accused in the past of ginning up controversies. What can’t be faked though is what God gave Green.

March’s “300: Rise of an Empire” kind of came and went, but the one thing that did create buzz was Green’s violent roll in the hay with co-star Sullivan Stapleton. Dresses were ripped. Faces were slapped. Boobs were bared.

Green has said the scene left her with bruises. Not that other love scenes are much more fun to shoot.

“You feel very awkward and very silly and you don’t feel sexy at all,” Green told the UK’s The Telegraph. “You are just acting.”

The actress has said she’s worried about being known for playing one kind of role, but it’s unlikely that a large segment of the audience would object to her getting typecast. It could actually make her more well-known.

“The fact that she’s willing to show her breasts is a big deal,” Mr. Skin says. “Nudity in a blockbuster movie, it’s a rarity.”