Bond Girl remembers how Sean Connery "loves to tickle" (mentioning of M/F)

[Crusoe]

This is from the E! True Hollywood Story series, chronicling the Bond Girls. Any Bond buffs here remember the girl-on-girl fight scene in "From Russian With Love"? Well, one of those girls, a now mature yet former Miss Israel recipient named Alizia Gur, recalls a scene she shot with Sean Connery after the fight that (God Damn It!) was tossed to the cutting-room floor! However, you're gonna have a blast hearing her let us in on the fact that, "Sean loves to tickle". She talks a little about how he'd have her giggling, and she even speaks of her "belly button", terming it choice-fully so, and how censors had a big issue over belly buttons back in '63, (the chiefest reason, apparently, why we will never see this scene, but thank you, Miss Gur, for remembering it for us!) Great moment if for nothing else than to hear some delicious words weaved in a true tickle context:

Skip to 5:30, but whole interview is cool too: [just remove the space, copy, paste]

youtube.com/ watch?v=y0LxrOcKiEU

-Seems like Sean Connery might be 'one of us'! Also sounds like Alizia Gur wasn't adverse to being tickled!
ENJOY!

 

[Oddjob0226]

Sounds like the scene is intact in other, non U.S., versions.

 

[yukio.san]

Years ago i watched the extras in my From Russia with love dvd copy and there was an interview to Daniela Bianchi who was the Bond girl of that movie. Well she recalled about a scene on the train during which she had to act like she was sleeping and they had to make the scene a lot of times cause Sean Connery used to keep tickling her sneaky breaking her concentration

 

[Crusoe]

Nice, yukio! Great addition to the Connery notoriety. Now we just need a montage of all the costars he's tickled, and see those moments for what they are!

 

[chicago]

Nice find! Sean Connery was hot back in the day and dat accent <3

 

[airportqb]

007 is the man all away around!! haha

 

[Joker Jack]

Perhaps Honor Blackman got to hear of Connery's love of tickling and decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. In this publicity shot from 'Goldfinger' it certainly look like she's tickling him.

 

[Mr. Roboto]

On the commentary track for You Only Live Twice, Karin Dor (Helga Brant) says during the scene that she gets devoured by piranhas, the divers pulling her under were tickling her feet to get her to scream.

 

[Joker Jack]

Wow! Thank you, Mr Roboto! Confirmation here - https://whatculture.com/film/20-things-you-didn-t-know-about-you-only-live-twice-1967?page=9
Karin Dor was utterly gorgeous. Wish I'd been that diver!