is she a strong character, but at the end of the day she is a very independent character. And so in the book, in dealing with her, I had to take that on board and very carefully referenced her upbringing, but then gave the whole story a twist that I think gives it almost, dare I say it, a feminist edge - certainly a modern one.

And of course it's not something which I consider to be even remotely true at all. be cured by her first relationship with a heterosexual man would, I think, be deeply, deeply offensive today. because to suggest for a minute that Pussy Galore was a sort of a gay woman who could somehow. That was one of the dangerous areas, if you like, that I had to be very, very careful about. On writing Pussy Galore into the new novel, and how he approached the storyline of Bond seducing a lesbian character Back then, particularly at a time when luxury goods had been in such short supply for so long, it was the height of cool to be so precise in your demands. And it follows in all the products that he demanded - you know, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right drinks, the right food, the right restaurants. When Sean Connery turned around and asked for a cocktail shaken but not stirred, it was cool to have that precision, that sort of absolute perfection in taste. On Bond's precise tastes, and why they were seen as cool '50s and '60s, when the books were written and were thriving, and nowadays where so many perceptions have changed. one of the interesting things is trying to bridge this astonishing gap between the.

And perhaps some of the attitudes in the books were cooler then - even the violence, maybe, these days we think twice about. and I don't think many people would admire that these days. James Bond smoked I think about 20 to 30 cigarettes a day. The first one that springs to mind is probably smoking. On the ways in which Bond isn't so cool anymore

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