Dye Another Day

Blonde bombshell Britt Ekland is still relishing her 'Bond girl' status as she turns 80. The Swede also declared she has no plans to kick the bottle.

"I will be dyeing my hair till the day I die", she said. "Vanity is my best friend".

"People who meet me still call me a Bond girl", she added. And they find it so exciting – like I made the film yesterday. But 007 is almost as old as me now.

"Nothing makes me prouder professionally than to know I am part of film history. No character is so universally loved as James Bond was. Great looking, great gadgets, great clothes, great locations. 

"Even the fighting was stylish. Bond is an icon that will never die, and, as a Bond Girl, I'm part of that legacy. Now they are Bond women, and we have to move with the times, but I very much represented the Bond girl of old, and I'm very happy with that.

"Roger was funny and charming but very professional. There were no flirtations of any kind or inappropriate behaviour. Maud [Adams] and I were half-dressed all the time, which was the Bond Girl uniform back then. But he made us feel comfortable, which was not easy. It's different now. 

"Everyone is on Instagram or out at clubs wearing next to nothing, but it wasn't what you did then. Sit at a table and eat dinner in a bikini! Doing things other people do fully dressed! Roger made it a lot easier. And he was so very funny, which also relaxed me. He used to call me Bert!"

Britt revealed that producer Cubby Broccoli was not so keen on her tiny frame:

"He thought I looked too thin, so he tried to fatten me up. There was a great Italian restaurant in Hong Kong where we were filming, and we always went there for dinner after shooting. 

"Cubby would insist I ate two plates of spaghetti every time we went there. I would sit there mortified, thinking about how I had to be in a bikini the next day".

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