The Hollywood star Harry Hamlin is opening up about his romance with the former Bond girl Ursula Andress, who is sixteen years his senior.
Hamlin, 69, met Andress while starring in the 1981 movie Clash Of The Titans with her, and he was immediately starstruck by the actress.
“Not only had I seen ‘Dr. No,’ but for some unknown reason my parents gave me a five-year subscription to Playboy for Christmas when I was 12,” Hamlin told Yahoo Entertainment. “I never knew why they did that. Now that I have kids, I think, ‘That’s an odd thing to do!’”
“But Ursula was featured in one of those Playboys, and I remember that very well,” he added. “I don’t think I’d told her that when we first met. I’m not sure I said, ‘By the way, Ursula, I loved your layout in Playboy when I was 13!’”
Though Hamlin and Andress didn’t have any scenes together in the film, they still struck up a romance.
“Everyone came, and they sat me next to Ursula,” Hamlin recalled. “I didn’t know what to say to her exactly, but somehow the subject of flea markets came up, and I said that I’d been to a flea market the week before I flew over to London. When we got to Rome to start filming there, she called me at the hotel one day and said, ‘I’m only five houses down from the hotel, and there’s a flea market tomorrow on the Porta Portese. Do you want to go?’ So that’s how that happened!”
Their romance hit an obstacle in the form of director Desmond Davis, who kept a watchful eye on Hamlin because he suspected the actor was involved in a second on-set romance.
“He thought I was having it off with someone from the makeup department, and he was also enamored with that person,” Hamlin remembered. “He was totally jealous of me the whole time! He would stay on the same floor as me in the hotel to keep his door open and see whether or not I was running off into the makeup woman’s room. I would say to him, ‘Desmond, I don’t know her. She just does my makeup!’ But he was fixated on that the whole time; it was very odd.”
Despite this, Hamlin and Andress, now 85, had a long-term relationship from 1979-1983 and share a son, Dmitri, who is now 41. Hamlin has since married three more actresses: Laura Johnson, Nicolette Sheridan and his current wife, Lisa Rinna.
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