Though it has been nearly 50 years since The Man With the Golden Gun, Ekland still looks back fondly on her time with the world’s greatest secret agent. She even attended the premiere of the most recent Bond film, No Time to Die, at the Royal Albert Hall in England in September 2021.
“At the time it was not important because I had done plenty of films before, Bond was just something I wanted to do,” she told HuffPost in 2012. “I liked the idea of…being an action woman—in the ’60s, we just played sex kittens. I had no idea it would be this big, but in the past 10 to 15 years, it’s been super-important, because I do [theater], and it’s ‘Britt Ekland – Bond Girl’ and it’s just a tag that is great today.”
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