Honor Blackman: "I have never been a bimbo"

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Honor Blackman: "I have never been a bimbo"

Connery's the best Bond, the Queen's stuck in the past, and Iraqis are dying because we want oil ... as she returns to the stage, Honor Blackman talks to Stuart Jeffries

I have got further with Pussy Galore than James Bond managed. Did he ever share a narrow bed with her in a dressing room at the Lyric Theatre? Maybe in his sexiest dreams. Honor Blackman - who played the gun-wielding, judo-chopping pilot with the bonkers name in Goldfinger - can still talk incessantly about Sean Connery, even though that was four decades ago. "Nobody will ever be as good as Sean," she tells me. Honor, you have to work on your pillow talk.

"Sean was a very fortunate gentleman because he was so good at the part," she says. "Everybody thinks he was playing himself, but Bond isn't exactly an Edinburgh milkman. He's a fine figure of a man, sexy beyond belief." Enough about ageing Edinburgh milkmen. We're on this bed (she's at one end, I'm at the other) to discuss the role of Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret, which Blackman is taking over from Sheila Hancock this Monday. She has two weeks to rehearse before she joins the cast. Tough gig.

Few 79-year-olds would take on such a workload: eight shows a week for six months ("Heavens don't remind me!" she elocutes impeccably). "I've resisted being in the West End for 20 years, since I appeared in Nunsense. But I saw Sheila and thought, 'I want to do that.'" Why? "When I put my foot on the stage, I come alive and that's it. It's always a bang. It's thrilling, I think, theatre. Thrilling." But theatre isn't enough. She points at my notebook, urging me to report her appeal for more work: "I'd quite like to do a TV series."

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