“They always ask the same thing,” said Maryam d’Abo wryly. “What was it really like to kiss Timothy Dalton?” I had met the onetime Bond girl—remember cello-wielding Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights?—for drinks at the Corinthia Hotel London. (Red wine for her, martini for me.) And we weren’t alone: d’Abo was accompanied by her fellow 007 alumna Carole Ashby, a Moore-era Bond girl twice over, with memorable roles in Octopussy and A View to a Kill.
They were both charming company. Ashby is a saucy seaside postcard come to life, only with more sequins; d’Abo was more serious at first, but relaxed as the wine gets to work on her jet lag. After all, she had arrived from Mustique only a few hours prior.
