Octopussy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[stephanie]

Octopussy's real name is Octavia Charlotte Smythe.

[janice]

Fatima Whitbread was offered a featured role.

[cassandra]

Producer Albert R. Broccoli first met Vijay Amritaj, at the time a professional tennis player, while attending Wimbledon.

[lonnie]

On the DVD Ultimate Edition, John Glen comments he picked up Paul Hardwick for the role of the "Soviet Chairman", because he was a perfect Leonid Brezhnev look-a-like. The same thing had happened in For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Janet Brown and John Wells impersonating the Thatchers: Margaret Thatcher and Denis Thatcher. This was also Hardwick's final movie. Ironically, Brezhnev died the year before this movie's release, making the likeness anachronistic.

[stephanie]

In his book, "As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride," Cary Elwes states that before he was an actor, he worked as a production assistant on this movie. One of his jobs was to drive Sir Roger Moore to work on the set of the movie. He further goes on to say that he was "a nervous wreck" being constantly afraid of getting in a car accident and accidentally killing Sir Roger Moore. On one occasion, Mr. Moore looked up from the newspaper he was reading while being driven to work by Elwes and stated calmly, "You can speed up a little if you want to."

[bernice]

Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj received an 'introducing' credit.

[phyllis]

Andy Bradford (Agent 009) was also one of the Greek henchman in For Your Eyes Only (1981). Albert Moses (Sadruddin, Head of Station I in Udaipur) was also a bartender in Max Kalba's bar in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

[kim]

The MI6/Universal Exports building exterior, used in this movie, A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (1987), and Licence to Kill (1989), is the old War Offices near Westminster. It is close to other Bond filming locations, including the College of Arms (used in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)), Westminster tube station exit (used in Skyfall (2012)), and Westminster Bridge (used in The World Is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002), and Spectre (2015)).

[kristina]

Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn appeared on the same episode of That '70s Show (1998). Barbara Carrera, who was approached for the role of Octopussy before opting for a role in Never Say Never Again (1983) also appeared in the same episode.

[richard]

Feldstadt is a fictitious German city created for this movie.

[clayton]

The black and white Octopus insignia was a symbol of S.P.E.C.T.R.E., the criminal spy organization seen in other James Bond movies. However, in the short story and this movie, it has no connection to either story. Even if the producers had wanted to resurrect the Octopus symbol for this movie, the legal settlement with Kevin McClory gave him all of the rights to the use of "S.P.E.C.T.R.E.", and as such, the black-and-white octopus insignia could not have been used in this movie. The type of octopus seen on the Octopussy girls' bodies was different. It was a Blue-ringed octopus. In this movie, this symbol was a sign of an old secret order of female bandits and smugglers.