Avenger and Bond Girl, Honor Blackman, is currently on a short tour of speaking engagements. Taking the stage in Honor Blackman As Herself, she discusses stories from her career, including the Swinging London years portraying Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, as well as playing the original leather Avenger Cathy Gale in The Avengers. From her website: "Whilst Honor's career stretches over sixty glorious years, she has rarely appeared simply as herself. Here, in conversation with her
colleague and friend Richard Digby Day she will look back over this astonishing
life, her beginnings, her family, her rise to stardom with her usual sense of
humour and perspective. She will also be singing a few of her favourite songs." Hopefully she will include the Avengers tune Kinky Boots! Upcoming UK dates are May 8th, 12th, and 25th. Story continues below.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph, the actress spoke about how The Avengers launched her as "a pin-up as the smart, sexy,
gun-wielding, judo throwing anthropologist Cathy Gale. 'I really did go to judo
classes,' she says. At the age of 37 she was cast as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger." And if you ever wondered if she really was a natural action star: “When I was in the Civil Service I became a dispatch rider.
Because all the men were at war they asked girls to volunteer to learn how to
ride a motorbike and go from hospital to hospital in an emergency carrying
blood. Sadly I never got to because no-one ran out. But we used to ride across London- it frightened my mother
to death. I was known as Top Gear Tessie. I remember riding on the A4
from London to Oxford with my feet on the petrol tank singing at the top of my
voice.” Spy Vibe wishes Honor Blackman all the best for her upcoming shows and hope she will make it to some dates in the States. Below with Sean Connery in Goldfinger.
