Or so I hear. Odds are if you liked one actress, you were probably fond of the other as well. They share some truly spectacular DNA. But the time has come to make a choice. Olivia or Maryam.
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Dalton, the antithesis of his wisecracking predecessor Roger Moore , promised on taking up the tux to approach Bond with "a sense of responsibility to the work of Ian Fleming ". It was a comment that said much about how far the series had strayed from its roots. Happily, though, Dalton was true to his word; a few almost unbearably tense minutes, based on the short story from which The Living Daylights takes its title, was all it took to reassure my teenage self that Bond was in safe hands. Assisted by Saunders, a British bureaucrat, is tasked with protecting a key asset — in the book, British agent , in the film, Soviet defector Georgi Koskov — from a waiting assassin. In both versions, the sniper turns out to be a beautiful blonde cellist who has previously caught Bond's eye, and whom he declines to kill. Entrusted to Moore, it would have been all over in a quick flurry of one-liners and raised eyebrows. But Dalton draws on Fleming's narrative to convey a sense of Bond's interior life.