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
To Live and Die in L.A. (film) engrossing and diverting enough on a moment-to-moment basis but is overtooled ... Friedkin keeps dialog to a minimum, but what conversation there is proves wildly overloaded with streetwise obscenities, so much so that it becomes something of a joke". Another mixed review came from Janet Maslin in "The New York Times," who wrote "On its own terms, it's a considerable success, though it's a film that sacrifices everything in the interests of style." In his scathing review for the "Washington Post", Paul Attanasio wrote, ""To Live and Die in L.A." will live briefly and die quickly in L.A., where God