Vesper Lynd (played by Eva Green in Casino Royale) actually manages to get the L word from Bond, coming pretty close to turning him into sentimental mush.
- When Sir Sean Connery gave up the mantle, George Lazenby's turn was also supposed to be a return to the book Bond. But On Her Majesty's Service (1969) was disastrous, not least of all because of the less-than-macho Lazenby. Diane Rigg was inspired, if a tad unbalanced, as Mrs Bond, but she only lasted a few hours.
- Bond in the books usually only collects one girlfriend along the way and only twice does he manage two. But Bond on screen has 58 women over some 20 films.
- Vesper Lynd is the only book Bond girl to bear any physical resemblance to the type of woman author Ian Fleming was attracted to - 30-something, dark, sharp and intelligent.
- Fleming got the name Vesper from an iced rum, fruit and herb cocktail he was served at an old isolated plantation house on the north coast of Jamaica.