Warren Beatty once appeared “stark naked” in front of Madeline Smith.
Warren Beatty with his wife Annette Bening
The 76-year-old actress has recalled meeting the iconic actor at director Roman Polanski’s wedding to Sharon Tate in 1968.
In her new tell-all memoir, Bond Girl, Madeline wrote: “There were famous faces everywhere … Warren Beatty was in London with Faye Dunaway, promoting his latest film, Bonnie and Clyde. Warren Beatty came up to speak to me and said I was the most beautiful girl he had ever met.”
Madeline recalled being invited by the actor to a friend’s Mayfair home, where he was staying and where the actress was caught off guard.
The model-turned-actress shared: “I was shown into his room. Warren was lying there stark naked and on the phone. I was absolutely terrified. I was a virgin. I thought we were going to have tea and cakes. He told me I was a very intelligent girl, but when I said, ‘I’m going to go home now,’ he said, ‘It would be nice to have a cuddle.’ I replied, ‘Well, my idea of cuddling is obviously fully clothed.’ To say that I was inexperienced is an understatement.”
Madeline admitted to being shocked by the levels of “excess” in the 60s and 70s.
She explained: “I am not saying I am a goody-two-shoes at all, because I’m not, but the levels of drug-taking and sexual excess were staggering looking back now … Men expected women to be even freer with their bodies, but I swam in the opposite direction.”
Madeline – who played Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die, the 1973 spy film – also recalled spurning the advances of Sir Sean Connery, whom she met by chance in a hotel in Scotland.
Madeline was walking back to her room holding a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel when she bumped into the movie star.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the actress shared: “He said to me: ‘Can I come in and run your bath with you and we’ll read Dostoevsky together?’”
Madeline admitted to feeling flustered by the actor’s advances.
She said: “I didn’t know what a man looks like. I said: ‘No.’ I knew what he wanted … He was just cheeky. Obviously, any other woman would say: ‘Come this way, close the door.’ He was very hurt.”
