Bond girl Jane Seymour admits her role in Live And Let Die was ‘so wrong’

Bond girl Jane Seymour says 007’s Live And Let Die would not be made in today’s Hollywood climate.

She cited Roger Moore, making his debut, as a little “Austin Powersy” and the film’s locations and narrative as “Blaxploitation.’

Seymour, 69, admitted it was wrong for her to be cast as Solitaire given that writer Ian Fleming had penned the character as a Haitian fortune teller.

Fleming also based the heroine on a rare Solitaire bird found in his beloved writing home of Jamaica.

Talking to the As Not Seen on TV podcast Seymour revealed: “You, could not and would not make that movie today.

“It’s so wrong but you know, it was a good movie.”

Speaking on the As Not Seen on TV podcast, Seymour also recalled how the film studio tried to get a sexier profile in the media, before the film’s release.

She added: “They hired this guy, Terry O’Neil, great photographer, to take my photographs and spend three days with me and come up with a story and he couldn’t find any salacious, sexy stuff because I’m playing a sex symbol, right?

“But I’m also playing a virgin. So he didn’t know what to say so they wrote in this thing ‘She loves to run naked through long grass’.

“So I got a call from my father, who’s a doctor, who said, ‘Darling, it’s a very good article but I’m a bit concerned about you running through long grass. And while we’re at it, in the book it says you’re being dragged behind a boat on a coral reef with sharks so I just want to mention those to you.’ There we go!”

That shark coral scene was later used for For Your Eyes Only with another Bond girl.

Seymour says late Moore remains her favourite 007, although she loved Connery – who turned 90 this week.

“What is great about Bond is that each one is uniquely right for that era and so Sean Connery was amazing.

“He was just very rugged and he was Sean. He was Bond, no one thought of anyone else.”

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