Pierce Brosnan says there is only one Bond - Sean Connery

The staff at Pinewood are well used to seeing Pierce Brosnan - after all, the actor filmed four James Bond movies at the famous studio - reports The Mirror

But even the longest-serving tea lady must have struggled to recognise him when he turned up to work on new Abba musical Mamma Mia!

"It was great fun going back to the scene of the crime doing this movie, kicking over the ghosts left right and centre," he laughs.

"Daniel Craig and the company weren't there so we had it all to ourselves. But I did have this image of me strutting down the corridors in my spandex suit and high heels bumping into Dan looking all butch and Bond like. That would have been interesting."

In his new movie, Pierce plays one of three men who may - or may not - be the father of Meryl Streep's teenage daughter. He travels to her Greek island home for her wedding where passions are rekindled with her mum.

Singing and dancing in olive groves in Greece was a world away from 007 but he clearly relished the challenge. "I would have loved to do something like this when I was Bond - just to rattle the cage," he says.

"I have had the time of my life from the beginning of my career, all the way.

"When you go into Bond it is such an iconic role and you know that as soon as you say 'yes' you are in, you are a Bond.

"You are labelled, you are stamped, you are a number - I am not a number, I am a free man," he laughs, quoting from classic TV series The Prisoner.

"You then have to figure out how to move on in your career after it's finished. I saw Sean Connery go through it. For me there is only one Bond and that is Sean although Daniel is bloody magnificent.

"I am very excited about the next one to see where it goes and how to take it.

"I haven't spoken to Dan for a while but I am going to meet him for a pint soon."

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