Ian Fleming’s spy isn’t a stranger to a bloody assassination, neither is he one to bedding the ladies he comes throughout in his adventures.

Shooting James Bond love scenes had been at all times going to be barely awkward for the actors as they’re on any film set, though traditional 007 went to a different degree.

Producer Cubby Broccoli would have luggage of ice pressed on Sean Connery‘s chest to flatten it earlier than filming such intimate moments.

And in the course of the shoot of 1 sexual encounter, the 007 star and the Bond woman needed to carry out the scene with a big group of press photographers crowded across the mattress.

Luciana Paluzzi, who performed SPECTRE murderer Fiona Volpe on this scene from Thunderball has spoken out on the surreal expertise and the way filming 007 intercourse sequences isn’t truly what audiences might imagine.

The 86-year-old Bond woman gave a latest interview within the new ebook Movies Go Fourth by Mark Edlitz, creator of The Lost Adventures of James Bond and The Many Lives of James Bond.

Looking again on the fourth 007 film, she mentioned of working with Connery, who died in 2020 aged 90: “He was very engaged. He liked [the role]. The part of Bond propelled him into stardom and that’s what an actor wants. Later, maybe he wants to go do King Lear, but this part is a way to command your own future. By arriving and having such stardom. He seemed very grateful.”The creator mentioned: “There’s a very interesting scene with you and Sean in bed. It’s sexy but it’s also very intimate. However, from photos taken at the time, I gather you and Sean had a lot of company that day.”

Paluzzi replied: “That is very correct. They decided to have all the photographers from all the magazines and the newspapers on the set that day. But all through the day, besides the crew, we had about 30 extra bodies on the side shooting away in between takes.

“They would only go silent while we were shooting, but that was only for about a minute. It was fun even though the sex scenes are never really sexy. You’re never really naked.

“Thank God it was not in fashion at the time. Even when I appear to be naked in another scene in the tub, I still had my underwear on. I wasn’t totally naked.”

Mark Edlitz’s Movies Go Fourth: 4th Films in Fantastic Franchise is out now.