James Bond Boss Says From Russia With Love Mattress Scene Used In Auditions – Deadline

James Bond movie producer Michael G. Wilson, who runs Eon Productions with Barbara Broccoli, has revealed {that a} seduction scene from the 1963 thriller From Russia With Love is at all times used to check these aspiring to play Ian Fleming’s ruthless spy.

Throughout an ‘In Dialog’ occasion at London’s British Movie Institute to have fun 60 years of James Bond, Wilson famous that they at all times want a great actress to play reverse the actor taking part within the audition. “We at all times use the identical scene … and that’s the one in From Russia With Love the place Bond comes again after the assassination to his room, and he begins taking off his shirt, goes into the room to wash, then he hears one thing, takes his gun, goes in and the woman’s within the mattress,” he advised the viewers on the BFI on Friday night time, referring to the second in From Russia With Love the place Sean Connery’s Bond finds Soviet army clerk Tatiana Romanova, performed by Daniela Bianchi in the midst of his mattress sporting solely a black velvet choker.

After introducing themselves, Bond gives compliments to her magnificence. She, nevertheless, laments: ”I believe my mouth is simply too huge.”

Earlier than kissing her, Bond assures her all is properly. ”No, it’s the suitable dimension.For me, that’s.”

Wilson defined ”That was the take a look at we use. Anybody who can carry that scene off is correct for Bond. It’s robust to do.”

The veteran producer shared the BFI stage with BBC interviewer Samira Ahmed, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade; casting director Debbie McWilliams, actor Rory Kinnear – Invoice Tanner in Quantum of Solace , Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die, manufacturing designer Mark Tildesley and affiliate producer Gregg Wilson. It was certainly one of a number of occasions held in current days to mark James Bond Day this coming Wednesday, October 5.

Later, Wilson spoke to Deadline, and reiterated a degree he made to us a number of months in the past: ”It’s an entire new world, we’ve obtained to see what occurs with Amazon, however there’ll at all times be a Bond.”

He additionally confused that casting has not began for the brand new 007, ”It doesn’t matter what others inform you.”

Nevertheless, he did reveal that youthful actors are out of the operating. ”We’ve tried taking a look at youthful folks up to now however attempting to visualise it doesn’t work. Bear in mind, Bond’s already a veteran, he’s had some expertise – he’s an individual who has been by way of the wars, so to talk. He’s in all probability been within the SAS or one thing. He isn’t some child out of highschool you can herald and begin off. That’s why it really works for a thirty-something.”