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 (novel) and Bond comments "that New York 'must be the fattest atomic-bomb target on the whole face of the world'." "Live and Let Die" also gave Fleming a chance to outline his views on what he saw as the increasing American colonisation of Jamaica—a subject that concerned both him and his neighbour Noël Coward. While the American Mr Big was unusual in appropriating an entire island, the rising number of American tourists to the islands was seen by Fleming as a threat to Jamaica; he wrote in the novel that Bond was "glad to be on his way to the soft