20 Things You Didn’t Know About Octopussy (1983)

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Whilst filming Maurice Binder’s titles sequence on For Your Eyes Only, Cubby Broccoli met model, Perri Small who explained that her real name was Penelope Smallbone.

It was subsequently decided that Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) should be given an assistant in Octopussy to take over when Lois Maxwell retired from the franchise. Cubby suggested that the assistant's name should be Penelope Smallbone, recalling the names used in Ian Fleming’s Bond novels.

Miss Penelope Smallbone was played by Michaela Clavell, daughter of author, screenwriter, and director, James Clavell. However, during filming, Lois Maxwell initially introduced her as “Penelope Smallbush”, leading Roger Moore to joke “We know where your mind has been, Moneypenny”.

Both Penelope Smallbone and Q's (Desmond Llewelyn's) own assistant, Smithers (Jeremy Bulloch) were excised from the script for A View to a Kill (1985) due to budgetary restraints.

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