Barbara said today that Fleming called him “a shadow”. And what is life without love? Fleming was very ambiguous about Bond.
What do you think about Fleming’s work and the challenge for an actor of imparting some genuine human feeling and emotion in the material? What do you think of my attempt in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service? It’s one of the best movies, because it had a love story. Daniel, we both made our 007 debuts in films (unusually for the series) based closely on Ian Fleming’s source novels.