20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

16. Octopussy Returns

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Maud Adams is one of the few actresses who can claim to have featured in three Bond films.

She originally starred as Francisco Scaramanga's ill-fated mistress, Andrea Anders in Roger Moore’s second Bond feature, The Man With The Golden Gun (1974). Years later, the Swedish actress was cast in the title role in Octopussy (1983), after having screen-tested actors to play a new James Bond whilst Moore was deciding whether he wished to return to play the gentleman spy for a sixth time.

Coincidentally, she was in San Francisco when production on A View to a Kill moved there in autumn 1984 and Moore was able to convince her to appear as an extra in a sequence set at Fisherman’s Wharf.

Bond fans have long debated where she is in the scene; she is walking leisurely behind Bond and CIA agent, Chuck Lee (David Yip) on the docks, wearing sunglasses, a tan jacket, and a black trouser suit.

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