Brigette said of Bond’s death: “I found it quite surprising. If you think of real agents, they get a new life.

“They get a new passport, they get a new face, they get a new identity and are relocated.

“And I thought it would be something along those lines. It would look as though he’d died, but in reality, he was given a new face, passport and life in South America or wherever.”

Something similar happened to Christian Bale’s Batman when he removed the bomb from blowing up Gotham City at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, by flying the explosive device out to sea.