DIANA RIGG
Oct 16, 2020
1 minute
NS
t takes a special lady to entrance James Bond, let alone whisk him down the aisle. And Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli certainly found one when they cast Diana Rigg as 007’s bride Tracy Di Vincenzo, a role they’d originally earmarked for Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve. Rigg would later say she was only hired to guide George Lazenby through his first starring role and to give Peter Hunt’s film “gravitas”. Before being felled by Irma Bunt’s bullet, though, she also gave it humour, grace and sophistication – not least in the scene where she flatters Blofeld with poetry in a soon-to-be-decimated Piz Gloria.
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