Madeline Smith, now 76, details predatory behavior by Hollywood icons in her new memoir. The former Bond Girl recalls a frightening encounter with Warren Beatty and a rejected advance from Sean Connery.

A 'stark naked' encounter with Warren Beatty in 1968

In her upcoming book, Madeline Smith, Bond Girl: From 60s Fashion Model to Half a Century on Stage and Screen, Madeline Smith describes a disturbing incident involving Warren Beatty. According to the report, the two met at the wedding of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, where Beatty praised Smith as the most beautiful girl he had ever encountered.

The situation esscalated when Warren Beatty invited Madeline Smith to afternoon tea at a friend's home. Instead of the expected refreshments, Smith was led to a room where she found Warren Beatty lying stark naked on a bed while talking on the phone. As the report says, Smith was a virgin at the time and felt "absolutely terrified" by the encounter. When she attempted to leave, Warren Beatty casually suggested it would be "nice to have a cuddle," a request Smith rejected by stating her version of cuddling required being fully clothed.

Sean Connery's Dostoevsky proposal at Peebles Hydro

Madeline Smith's memoir also recounts a proposition from Sean Connery in 1970 during the filming of The Ballad of Tam-Lin. While staying at the Peebles Hydro hotel, Sean Connery approached Smith as she was entering her room with a Dostoevsky novel. He asked if he could join her to run a bath and read the book together.

Smith, who had only ever held hands with partners up to that point, declined the offer. The report notes that Sean Connery reacted with hurt and disbelief, claiming any other woman would have welcomed him. Following this rejection, Sean Connery reportedly ignored Madeline Smith entirely the following day while they were on the hotel grounds.

Roger Moore's professionalism versus 1960s sexual excess

To proovide a contrast to these experiences, Madeline Smith describes Roger Moore as a "perfect gentleman" during the production of the 1973 film Live and Let Die. While Moore treated her with respect, Smith reflects on a broader culture of "staggering" drug use and sexual excess that defined the film industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Madeline Smith explains that women in the industry were often pressured to be "freer with their bodies," though she consciously chose to resist these expectations. This environment of casual sexism extended to the set, where Smith recalls being pushed onto beds and expected to play footsie, highlighting the systemic nature of the harassment she faced.

Madeline Smith's 2019 call for a female James Bond

The memoir connects these past traumas to Smith's modern advocacy for gender evolution in cinema. During a 2019 appearance on This Morning, Madeline Smith argued that women have "emerged from the darkness and the dark ages" and are now capable of handling the lead role of James Bond.

While the memoir provides a candid look at the behavior of powerful men, the source material leaves several questions unanswered. Specifically,the report does not mention whether the estates or representatives of Warren Beatty or Sean Connery were contacted for comment, nor does it provide corroborating accounts from other women present at the Polanski-Tate wedding or the Peebles Hydro hotel. The narrative remains exclusively from the perspective of Madeline Smith.