Jane Seymour on getting her Bond role: 'They were looking for a virgin'

(8 Apr 2022)
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Archive: London, 5 July 1973
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1. Roger Moore and Jane Seymour meet Princess Anne at "Live and Let Die" premiere
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Malibu, 28 March 2022
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Seymour, actor - on being cast in "Live and Let Die"
"Yes, well, they were looking for a virgin. That was the character, and they were not very many in England at that time, it was the early '70s. And I think I was as close as they could find, and I was 20 when they hired me, 22 when it came out, but I was a very innocent 20. I'd only one boyfriend and I and I married him and that was Michael Attenborough. So I had the wonderful mentor of Richard Attenborough when I became super famous in England, and he just said, he said to me, 'Darling, the day you believe in your own publicity, you're dead.' That's what he said. And then you said 'You've been given a fine instrument. Now you need to.' Was it 'now you need to fine tune it' because he meant so I had to work on my voice and everything, but he was, he was a wonderful, wonderful mentor and Roger, of course, was a friend of theirs. So I mean, I got this role out of nowhere. I mean, I never went up for it. I wasn't actually available. I was starring in a series on television at the time, called 'The Onedin Line.' I wasn't available at all. In fact, my agent said 'she can't do it. She's not, you know.' So when I went to meet them, I went to meet them knowing I wasn't going to do it. And then they just immediately offered me the role on the spot. No audition. Nothing."
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3. STILL IMAGE: Producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli is shown
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Archive: Cannes, France, 16 May 1978
4. STILL IMAGE: The members of the jury Cannes jury pose: left to right -U.S. movie maker Harry Saltzman, France's Michel Ciment, U.S. director Alan J.Pakula, jury president, Swedish actress Liv Ullmann, Italy's Franco Brusati, French critic Francois Chalais, USSR Andrei Mikhalkov Kontchalovski, French sets designer Georges Wakhevitch & Claude Goretta of Switzerland.
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Malibu, 28 March 2022
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Seymour, actor:
"Actually, they had a fight, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman had a fight. No one knew that. I didn't know they weren't talking to one another. They had different offices. They had a fight over who'd seen me first. And like a schoolgirl, I put my hand up said, 'Excuse me, but I was on television at the same time, so you both saw me first.' I was ushered into the, into another room where the secretaries offered me a cup of tea. And my agent, after he realized that we had to figure out how I was going to do this, asked me to drive to his place, and he made me have a gin and tonic, which I think was kind of interesting. I had actually when I left Harry Saltzman's office, having been told that they wanted me to do this and they were going to do whatever. I was driving a Volkswagen Beetle and I accidentally backed it into his Rolls-Royce and he didn't say a word, nothing. He wanted me that much that even though I had scraped his Rolls-Royce with my Beetle. Anyway, you bring back lots of memories now."
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Archive: Los Angeles, 6 April 2017
6. Jane Seymour on "Sandy Wexler" arrivals line
STORYLINE:
JANE SEYMOUR ON GETTING HER BOND ROLE: 'THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A VIRGIN'
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the first 007 film and British actor Jane Seymour has been looking back on being cast in the eighth James Bond film, "Live and Let Die."
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