Lizzie Cundy has lifted the lid on the not so glamorous life of a Bond girl, following her appearance in 1995’s Goldeneye.
The former WAG and TV personality, 56, recalled her experience on the set exclusively with MailOnline, which she described as ‘hell’.
In the movie, which was Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as 007, Lizzie appeared as Famke Janssen’s body double in the famous sauna scene where the character Xenia Onatopp tried to strangle Bond with her legs.
Lizzie revealed how Pierce, now 71, who was wrapped only in a towel, was the ‘hairiest man she’d ever seen’ and joked she feared getting ‘fur balls’.
‘He was a lovely bloke, so funny and we got on like a house on fire, but so hairy, like an otter’.
She recalled landing the role at the very last minute due to her having the same measurements as the Danish actress, but spent much of her time waiting in a tiny trailer which ‘smelt of fish’.
Lizzie Cundy, 51, has lifted the lid on the not so glamorous life of a Bond girl, following her appearance in 1995’s Goldeneye
In the movie, which was Pierce Brosnan ‘s first outing as 007, Lizzie appeared as Famke Janssen ‘s body double in the famous sauna scene (pictured in the movie)
Lizzie revealed how Pierce, now 71, who was wrapped only in a towel was the ‘hairiest man she’d ever seen’ and joked she feared getting ‘fur balls’ (pictured 1997)
If that wasn’t bad enough, once on set Lizzie said Pierce’s stand-in also stank and she was forced to endure the stench during rehearsals before the star arrived.
She laughed: ‘I had to do the practicing with this smelly man, who had body odour, it was awful. It wasn’t glamorous it wasn’t well paid’.
Despite Bond’s million pound budgets Lizzie revealed that she only received £250 for her work on the film, but was thankfully invited for 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.
‘It sounds glamorous but there was lots of waiting around and films aren’t always cracked up to be’.
Lizzie previously revealed that very embarrassing moment that happened to her during her second film appearance with Pierce.
In a 2021 Instagram post she recalled how he caught her and a friend ‘in his trailer using his toothbrush’ while on set of Tomorrow Never Dies.
She revealed that thankfully he took in good faith and was ‘charming, funny with an Irish twinkle in his eye.
Lizzie, who is a trained actress having attended London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, wrote: ‘Thankfully he took it all in good spirit and we all laughed and went for a drink!’.
She recalled landing the role at the last minute due to her having the same measurements as the actress (pictured) but spent most of the time waiting in a trailer which ‘smelt of fish’.
If that wasn’t bad enough, once on set Lizzie said Pierce’s stand in also stunk and she was forced to endure the stench during rehearsals before the star arrived
Despite Bond’s million pound budgets Lizzie revealed she only received £250, but was thankfully invited back to work on 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies (pictured, right)
It comes after fellow Bond star Rosamund Pike revealed she was ‘so mortified’ during her own saucy secen with Pierce in 2002’s Die Another Die, when she was only 22 and he was 48.
The British 46-year-old performed her first onscreen sex scene when her MI6 double agent seduced James Bond at an Iceland palace where they had a love-making session inside an epic swan-shaped bed.
‘I discovered things like nipple covers, and all the taping,’ Rosamund recalled on David Tennant’s podcast.
‘We have this clinch, and then we separate, and I look at this body tape and the nipple covers and they’re covered in hair. And I think, “Oh my God, I’m waxing Pierce’s chest!” I was so mortified! I thought, “Oh my God, he’s so brave, and I’m pulling off his chest hair with every embrace.”‘
The awkward on-set moment wasn’t as bad as Pike first imagined though as ‘it took a couple of takes to realize it was not him. It was the fake fur of the rugs adorning the swan bed. I literally thought I was waxing the poor man’s chest!’
The Emmy winner called Die Another Day ‘a magic carpet of an experience’ as her first scene was opposite Dame Judi Dench, she got to sword fight Halle Berry, and even flirted with Madonna in her cameo during a fencing scene.
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