The Spy Who Loved Me’s Barbara Bach slammed James Bond as ‘chauvinist pig’

Following Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun, Roger Moore returned as James Bond for his third of seven 007 films in The Spy Who Loved Me.

This time round his Bond lady co-star can be Barbara Bach, who was greatest recognized within the mid-Nineteen Seventies for making a lot of spaghetti Westerns.

The 29-year-old was forged simply 4 days earlier than the 007 movie began capturing as Russian spy Anya Amasova.

Originally, Bach – who went on to marry The Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr – had solely anticipated a supporting function in The Spy Who Loved Me earlier than bagging the lead reverse Roger.

And after wrapping the 1977 traditional Bond film, she shared precisely what she considered Ian Fleming’s spy.

Speaking with PEOPLE in 1983, Bach referred to as Bond “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.” Interestingly, Roger agreed along with her, having stated the identical factor in 1973 when he starred in his debut 007 outing, Live and Let Die.

The Bond legend, who died in 2017, stated on the time: “Bond, like myself, is a male chauvinist pig. All my life I’ve been trying to get women out of brassieres and pants.”

A couple of years later, Roger would acknowledge that how Bond girls have been portrayed within the films was altering, saying they have been now “perpendicular instead of horizontal.”

Following The Spy Who Loved Me, Roger starred in Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only. The 007 star nearly give up the franchise after 5 films, with producer Cubby Broccoli display screen testing and casting American star James Brolin in Octopussy.

However, Roger did return and fortunate he did as EON Productions’ 1983 Bond film went up in opposition to the unofficial Never Say Never Again starring Sean Connery. Following 1985’s A View To A Kill, after a file of seven official 007 films, he lastly handed the function on to Timothy Dalton on the age of 57.