Bond girls, i.e. the girls following British agent 007 James Bond on his missions, tend to have a short lifespan. They are either scapegoats, femmes fatales, or companions. One of them was in the story in 1987 Breath of life beauty from Czechoslovakia Kara Milovy. She was portrayed by the British actress with Georgian roots, Maryam d’Abová (62). Neither she nor Bond Timothy Dalton (77) looked at us behind the iron curtain during filming. The scenes from Bratislava were filmed in Vienna. In our country, the film was also released as the first ever Bond film with a five-year delay in September 1992.
For the whole world, Maryam d’Abová (62) remains the dazzling Bond girl from the 15th Bond film Breath of Life (1987).
Author: Blesk – Jiří Koťátko
Maryam made up for it now, when she presented a unique exhibition in Prague Bond in Motion. “As a long-time Bond fan, I’m delighted to be able to open it in a city I’ve called home for several years,” he told Bleska on behalf of the organizers Serge Borenstein. The exhibition will present over 35 vehicles from films and other props, and will open in four zones in the area of the Holešovice exhibition center in style (00)7. December, then for the public two days later, without the Bond girl, who remains beautiful and dazzling even after sixty. What did she reveal to Lightning?
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D’Abová for Blesk: “Bond cannot be a woman!”
After all these years and dozens of interviews about Bond, is there anything you haven’t revealed or been asked about?
“What I’ve already said would write a book! The Bond Girl’s Book. (laughter) But maybe… When we were shooting in the desert, we were under the supervision of a stunt coordinator who rode the horses instead of us. We had Arabian horses, white and beautiful… I felt like I was in the movie Lawrence of Arabia. So, for example, during my lunch break, I let myself be tempted and thought it was okay to just take a walk. I really pissed everyone off – what if I broke my leg, they thought. It wasn’t very professional of me, but I was so eager to ride.”
You last appeared in science fiction Last Words (2020), do you enjoy trying different genres?
“It always depends on the character and what the character is supposed to be. How it’s written, if I feel like the story it’s telling is worth telling, to be involved in it… There are no genres for me. It really depends on the content and also what season I’m at in my life. If I feel connected to that story and that moment in life. Sometimes you may not be ready to tell a certain thing or you don’t know how to tell it. I think it’s very personal, maybe I speak for all the actors. What stories do we want to tell? The ones that we already feel in the script will be good and worth it.”
One of D’Abova’s greatest experiences during filming was riding in a cello case.
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Back to Bond. They say you hate explosions. But you enjoyed a lot there…
“Yes, for example in the scene where Timothy and I are going down the hill in the cello case. To make it sizzle, director John Glen thought of putting skis under him. That scene was shot for a week, two or three days of which were just different shots of us going down. We spun around, bumped – the case can’t be steered! And around us explosions, missiles… I really hate it! There were many others, sometimes I covered my ears and said: After all, that character is a cellist, she might be worried about her hearing.”
What do you think the James Bond stories actually mean for Britain and what for the world?
“Fleming created it during the Cold War, when British intelligence, MI6, was very, very powerful. Those stories, and others he inspired, are part of a certain period in history. A period that is somewhat reflected in the present, which lacks a certain elegance of James Bond and his morality. And it is also a symbol of the protection of Her Majesty the Queen, now actually the King.”
There is a lot of speculation now that the next Bond could be a woman, what do you think?
“Bond can never be a woman as long as the brand is protected. Bond is just a perfect agent surrounded by beautiful women, that’s how it is.’
The actress was not afraid of action scenes in Bond or daring pictures for Playboy, for example.
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Flash message
Tickets for the exhibition, the price of which starts at 95 crowns and are available from Wednesday, will be raffled. The main prizes are a trip with Aston Martin to the Austrian F1 Grand Prix next year or a Triumph motorcycle from the Bond edition.
The actress was not afraid of action scenes in Bond or bold pictures for Playboy, for example. But she had no problem with nudity even in front of a movie camera. She took off her clothes for the first time in the film Xtro (1983) when she was 22 years old. Also in movies A mission to kill or in a thriller Tomcat: Dangerous Desires.
In the film, Bond’s car was a modified 1977 Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
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