Live and Let Die (film) woman, and after thinking of Catherine Deneuve, Jane Seymour, who was in the TV series "The Onedin Line", was cast for the role. Yaphet Kotto was cast while doing another movie for United Artists, "Across 110th Street". Kotto reported one of the things he liked in the role was Kananga's interest in the occult, "feeling like he can control past, present and future". Mankiewicz created Sheriff J.W. Pepper to add a comic relief character. Portrayed by Clifton James, Pepper appeared again in "The Man with the Golden Gun". "Live and Let Die" is also the first of two films featuring
Live and Let Die (film) proceeds to lower them into a shark tank. However, Bond escapes and forces Kananga to swallow a compressed-gas pellet used in shark guns, causing his body to inflate and explode. Leiter puts Bond and Solitaire on a train leaving the country. Tee Hee sneaks aboard and attempts to kill Bond, but Bond cuts the wires of his prosthetic arm and throws him out the window. As the film ends, a laughing Samedi is revealed to be perched on the front of the speeding train. While filming "Diamonds Are Forever", "Live and Let Die" was chosen as the next Ian Fleming