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Old 12-15-2023, 04:16 PM   #7688
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Originally Posted by Cappy View Post
I will give the Craig era credit for at least casting more age-appropriate women to play Bond girls. Some of those later Moore films were creepy-cringe. Remember Bibi Dahl in For Your Eyes Only?
I do. For the info of anyone who doesn't know: Lynn-Holly Johnson was 22 when she appeared as 'Bibi' in For Your Eyes Only. The British actress Jill Bennett, who played 'Bibi's coach, was 50.

The 'main' Bond Girl in For Your Eyes Only—French actress Carole Bouquet—was herself only 23 (~16 months older than Johnson).

The other Bond Girl in the movie, Cassandra Harris (a.k.a. the first Mrs. Pierce Brosnan), was 32.

Roger Moore was 53.


In 1983's Octopussy Maud Adams played the titular character; she was 38. Moore was 55.

In 1985's A View to a Kill, leading lady Tanya Roberts was 35. Grace Jones and Alison Doody played henchwomen to Christopher Walken's primary antagonist; Jones was 36, and Doody was a mere 18. Moore was 57.



Alison Doody would go on to play 'Elsa Schneider' in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a mere four years later, at age 22. Her character was a love interest of both the titular Dr. Jones played by Harrison Ford—46 at the time—and his father, the elder Dr. Jones, played by Sean Connery—58 at the time.
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