Bond girl’s naked meeting
BANG Showbiz – Jun 10, 2026 / 9:33 am | Story: 618963
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Former Bond girl Madeline Smith was left shocked when she went to meet Warren Beatty and the actor greeted her “stark naked”.
The 76-year-old actress has recalled meeting the iconic actor at director Roman Polanski’s wedding to Sharon Tate in 1968.
In her new tell-all memoir, Bond Girl, Madeline wrote: “There were famous faces everywhere … Warren Beatty was in London with Faye Dunaway, promoting his latest film, Bonnie and Clyde. Warren Beatty came up to speak to me and said I was the most beautiful girl he had ever met.”
Madeline recalled being invited by the actor to a friend’s Mayfair home, where he was staying and where the actress was caught off guard.
The model-turned-actress shared: “I was shown into his room. Warren was lying there stark naked and on the phone. I was absolutely terrified. I was a virgin. I thought we were going to have tea and cakes. He told me I was a very intelligent girl, but when I said, ‘I’m going to go home now,’ he said, ‘It would be nice to have a cuddle.’ I replied, ‘Well, my idea of cuddling is obviously fully clothed.’ To say that I was inexperienced is an understatement.”
Madeline admitted to being shocked by the levels of “excess” in the 60s and 70s.
She explained: “I am not saying I am a goody-two-shoes at all, because I’m not, but the levels of drug-taking and sexual excess were staggering looking back now … Men expected women to be even freer with their bodies, but I swam in the opposite direction.”
Madeline played Bond girl Miss Caruso opposite the late Sir Roger Moore in his first outing as 007 in 1973 film Live and Let Die.
The actress remembers Roger as being an absolute gentleman on set, something she can’t say about his Bond predecessor Sir Sean Connery, whose sexual advances she had to spurn during a chance meeting at a hotel in Scotland.
Madeline was walking back to her room holding a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel when she bumped into the movie star.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the actress shared: “He said to me, ‘Can I come in and run your bath with you and we’ll read Dostoevsky together?’”
Madeline admitted to feeling flustered by the actor’s advances.
She said: “I didn’t know what a man looks like. I said: ‘No.’ I knew what he wanted … He was just cheeky. Obviously, any other woman would say: ‘Come this way, close the door.’ He was very hurt.”
