Actress Britt Ekland claims political correctness has killed the traditional Bond Girl
ACTRESS Britt Ekland says political correctness has killed the traditional Bond Girl.
The 77-year-old played Mary Goodnight in 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun.
She said: “I’m the proudest Bond Girl there is because there are not a lot of us left, and there won’t be any in future.
“The Bond Girl has to look good in a bikini. That was her role.
“You wouldn’t see her in a bikini next to Daniel Craig in a suit today.”
She also told The Guardian how ex-hubby Peter Sellers told the world they were getting wed before proposing.
The actress said: “He said, ‘I’ve told the press we’re getting married. Is that OK with you?’
“I didn’t know what to say. Even to this day, I don’t know what I said.”
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She also revealed how Hugh Hefner tried to get Sellers, a keen snapper, to send in nude pics of her in a ‘cunning plan’.
The Playboy founder claimed to already have saucy photos of the Swedish-born model and actress.
Britt said she ‘knew’ Hefner was ‘bluffing’ as she had never done any raunchy shots, adding: “I never purposely posed half naked.”
The actress said Sellers did not believe her and eventually Hefner admitted he didn’t have raunchy snaps of her at all.
She said: “It was just horrifying that Peter Sellers should accuse me of something that was so very far from who I was.”
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