Bond girls don’t have as much fun due to PC, bikini-clad Mary Goodnight actress Britt Ekland says 

Britt Ekland has said that Bond girls don’t have much fun in the modern world of political correctness.

But the 80-year-old actress, who played Mary Goodnight opposite Sir Roger Moore in 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun, said actresses are now in a “better position” as a result of the #MeToo movement and the introduction of intimacy coaches. get started.

“There are no Bond girls anymore, it’s Bond women these days,” she said. They have it with political correctness and the #MeToo, they have it much better than we do.

“But I don’t think the final product is as fun as ours because we were beautiful and we had good bodies and we weren’t trying to look sexy, we just were.”

“Today everything is like this,” don’t do that, because that will upset that side. None of us had that.

“We just went out, we always wore a bikini and all these people are fully clothed, very typical, but it was a job and we did it.

So I think the Bond women are in a much better position today – from a political correctness point of view. But I think we had more fun.’

Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore in 1964’s Goldfinger, has previously said she “hates” being called a “Bond girl.”

Monica Bellucci called her character in 2015’s Specter a “Bond woman” — a term that Lea Seydoux, who plays Madeleine Swann in the 007 films, thinks should be adopted.

Ms. Ekland appeared in Get Carter alongside Sir Michael Caine and in Christopher Lee’s film The Wicker Man before landing a role in the Bond film.

She remembered how filmmaker Albert “Cubby” Broccoli hired her after seeing her breasts in The Wicker Man.

“He invited the cast and crew and he wanted me to eat a lot because he thought I was a little too skinny,” she said.

“Of course he’d seen The Wicker Man and said, ‘Oh, nice breasts, we’re taking her,’ and then I come on set with the baby and no breasts, so he said, ‘You’ve got to eat more.’ .’

The actress gave birth to son Nicolai in June 1973 with producer Lou Adler.

Ms Ekland said it was ‘tough’ working as a woman in the film industry in the early 1970s, but she feels the industry is now ‘over-regulated’.

The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond) – Pictured Roger Moore and Britt Ekland

“It was very tough,” she said. “This was the early 1970s and we didn’t have the kind of facilities we have now, catering and people looking after you.

“We certainly didn’t have what they have today, at least in America, an intimacy coach… We didn’t have anything, we just had to do it and it wasn’t filmed in a studio, it was filmed in real rooms and buildings. There were no regulations at that time.

“That’s why the #MeToo movement took everyone by surprise… this has been going on for a long time.”

She added, “Maybe it’s too regulated these days, I don’t know because I haven’t done a movie in a long time. But it was tough.’