Britt Ekland says ‘Bond women had extra enjoyable’ in her day
James Bond star Britt Ekland thinks Bond women “had more fun” in her time, saying “political correctness” now performs an excessive amount of of a job.
But the actress – who performed Mary Goodnight reverse Sir Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun – mentioned intimacy coaches, now widespread on movie units, would have made work much less “tough” within the ’70s.
The Swedish star, 80, defined: “There are no more Bond girls, they are Bond women today.
“With the political correctness and the #MeToo, they have a much better time than we had.
“But I don’t think that the end product is as fun as ours was, because we were pretty and we had good bodies and we didn’t try to look sexy, we just were.
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“Today, everything is so, ‘Don’t do that because that will upset that side’…
“We just went out there, we were always in a bikini and all these [other] people are fully dressed, very typical, but it was a job and we did it.
“I think today the Bond women [are], from a political correctness point of view, in a much better position. But I think we had more fun.”
Speaking forward of Fiftieth-anniversary cinema screenings of her 1973 movie The Wicker Man on Wednesday, Britt additionally recalled studying she was pregnant together with her second youngster on the set of the horror basic in Scotland.
She mentioned: “It was very tough. This was the early 1970s and we didn’t have the kind of facilities that we have today, catering and people taking care of you.
“We certainly didn’t have…an intimacy coach – someone who I think is in the room when you do scenes of a sexual nature.
“We had nothing, we just had to make do, and it was not filmed in a studio, it was filmed in actual rooms and buildings. There were no regulations in those days…
“Maybe today it’s over-regulated – I don’t know because I haven’t done a movie for a long time.”
Asked whether or not Hollywood has developed after #MeToo, Britt clarified: “Put it this way, it has changed a little bit but not that much.”
Of Sir Roger, who died in 2017 aged 89, she mentioned: “He was a fabulous person. He was a real people person and I’m a people person.”
But Bond movie producer Cubby Broccoli instructed Britt: “You’ve got to eat more” after she arrived on set in 1974 “with a baby” – her son Nicolai with document producer Lou Adler – “and no boobies”.
She added: “I [was] trying to not eat because I had to be in a bikini all the time, so we were two forces.”