{"id":919614,"date":"2026-04-26T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/919614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:33:14","slug":"lucy-fleming-on-the-next-james-bond-if-i-tell-you-ill-have-to-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/919614\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Fleming on the next James Bond: \u2018If I tell you, I\u2019ll have to kill you\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Fleming died just two years later, and now his estate is managed by Lucy and Kate. She\u2019s excited about the forthcoming Amazon reboot<\/a> and the team that has been assembled: producers David Hayman and Amy Pascal, director Denis Villeneuve and writer Steven Knight. \u201cI think they\u2019re approaching it in a wonderful way,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s an exciting new start and a challenge for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she knows who\u2019s going to be the next Bond<\/a>, she\u2019s not saying, though she seems like a woman sitting on a secret. \u201cIf I tell you, I\u2019ll have to kill you,\u201d she chuckles, keeping her counsel.<\/p>\n

Fleming was drawn to acting when she was 11, after seeing her mother in the play The Flower and the Cherry with Ralph Richardson. \u201cI was standing in the wings, watching the show and I got absolutely intrigued by the animal that was the audience,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd Mum on stage doing things and being things \u2013 that\u2019s when I got hooked, really. I did plays at school and then I said to my parents that I wanted to act. They hadn\u2019t pushed me in any way, but they were both very pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aged 16, she spent three months in New Zealand, looking after the son of the governor-general at the time, Bernard Fergusson, which was \u201cgreat fun\u201d. Then, in the summer of 1964, she returned home and went into repertory theatre after failing to get into Rada and Lamda. From there, she joined the Royal Court. \u201cIt was the Sixties, everything was happening. I don\u2019t think I was very swinging, though. I was rather naive. I went out with Tom Courtenay for a bit, and that was lovely. He\u2019s still a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

She did bits on television, including The Avengers, and the horror film Rasputin: The Mad Monk with Christopher Lee, but mainly stuck to theatre, working with people such as Ian McKellen. However, she says her family connections did not necessarily work to her advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite difficult, in a way, because they want you to be as good as your mother, and you\u2019re not. Well, you\u2019re different, and probably when you start, not nearly as good. And maybe never as good. It helped to get you seen but didn\u2019t necessarily help get you the job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Fleming died just two years later, and now his estate is managed by Lucy and Kate. She\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[2766,77,44154,83419,627,3943,9440,93284,24378,1715,11727,234949,32588,34328,16,15,227594],"class_list":["post-919614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-film-industry","tag-ian-fleming","tag-james-bond","tag-movies","tag-radio","tag-radio-4","tag-roald-dahl","tag-standard","tag-television","tag-television-editors-choice","tag-the-archers","tag-top-story","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-content"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116470795931618935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}