More than a dozen actresses who played the women who tempted the spy in his earlier films are reportedly being asked to perform small walk-on parts in The World Is Not Enough, starring Pierce Brosnan as 007.

They include the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress - best known for appearing as a bikini-clad nymph walking out the ocean in Dr No - and Honor Blackman, who played the leather-clad Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.

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Also in line for a comeback are Jill St John, who played Tiffany Case in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, and Britt Ekland, who achieved worldwide fame as Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974.

Other actresses from the 1970s to the 1990s who could appear are Jane Seymour, Barbara Bach, Maud Adams, Tanya Roberts, Talisa Soto, Maryann D'Arbo, Cary Lowell and Famke Janssen.

The 19th Bond film, The World Is Not Enough is currently in production in London and Istanbul under the direction of Michael Apted.

The female leads playing alongside Brosnan are French actress Sophie Marceau and Hollywood star Denise Richards.

Marceau plays the daughter of a murdered oil tycoon whom Bond is assigned to protect, while Richards is a weapons expert named Dr Christmas Jones.