{"id":570379,"date":"2026-05-07T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:35:15","slug":"the-1973-bond-girl-who-claimed-it-ruined-their-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570379\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1973 ‘Bond girl’ who claimed it ruined their career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n

The curse of an actor playing a major female role in a James Bond<\/a> movie and then watching their career go up in smoke has afflicted more than enough people to make it more than an urban legend.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s not necessarily a global thing. Take Luciana Paluzzi, for instance, who gained international recognition as Thunderball\u2018s Fiona Volpe. The role opened the doors for her to appear in countless American productions, as B-tier as they were, but she was locked out of the parts she really wanted.<\/p>\n

She\u2019d dreamed of returning to her native Italy and working with Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, and the rest of the country\u2019s most storied auteurs, but because she\u2019d been a \u2018Bond girl\u2019, they wanted nothing to do with her<\/a>, which kept her trapped under a glass ceiling.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the last time a similar fate would befall one of 007\u2019s onscreen love interests, though, for as much as Jane Seymour made a name for herself after Live and Let Die, winning two Golden Globes from eight nominations and a Primetime Emmy from six nods, the British industry treated her with derision.<\/p>\n

With almost all of her career highlights unfolding on the other side of the Atlantic, there might still be a few people who have no idea that she\u2019s English, with Seymour born in Middlesex. In the late 1970s, she took her talents to America and never looked back, which had everything to do with that damned Bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe English could not get past the fact I had been a \u2018Bond girl,’\u201d she revealed. \u201cI would get through auditions to the final moment when a director would see me for a major part in a movie, then somebody would say, \u2018Did you know she was a Bond girl?\u2019 And that would be it. I would never hear from them again.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Live and Let Die, Seymour appeared in a couple of British TV shows and made-for-TV movies, but the stigma continued to linger<\/a>. Her association with cinema\u2019s most iconic secret agent had made her damaged goods in the eyes of local casting directors, making the United States her only viable option.<\/p>\n

Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, they said, \u2018Yes, you did a Bond film\u2019, but they saw all the other things I had done, too,\u201d she explained. \u201cI only played Americans for the first year or so. That was funny. I played people from New York, Ohio, the South, you name it. They didn\u2019t realise I was English, or if they did, they forgot.\u201d<\/p>\n

It worked out fine for her in the long run, but it says a lot about how \u2018Bond girls\u2019 were perceived in the \u201970s that even though Live and Let Die\u2018s Solitaire launched Seymour\u2019s career to new heights<\/a>, it couldn\u2019t get her a job in the UK, leaving her with no option but to cross the pond to find the respect she\u2019d failed to get back home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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