20 Things You Didn’t Know About GoldenEye (1995)

17. “Straight Up, With A Twist.”

James Bond has never been accused of being a secret tee-totaler. Certainly, he has given up his smoking and dialled down his intake of extravagant food, but his famous vodka martini “shaken, not stirred” has rarely changed over the course of his film career.

Nevertheless, if any of the actors on-set were actually consuming alcohol during their scenes, it is likely that they would be falling about drunk rather than delivering their memorable dialogue.

Whilst M started as she meant to go on by always having a bottle of Bourbon handy in preference to her predecessor’s Cognac, Judi Dench drank apple juice with Pierce Brosnan, using two lumps of glass in her tumbler to represent ice.

Likewise, Pierce Brosnan drank iced water as a stand-in for Bond’s famous tipple.

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