United Kingdom, Aug. 21 -- Jane Seymour was almost bitten by a snake during the making of the James Bond classic Live and Let Die.

The 75-year-old actress starred in the 1973 007 flick as Bond girl Solitaire and recalled how filming for one of the movie's climactic scenes went awry.

Looking back at the scene in an interview with CNN, Jane said: "Solitaire is going to be tortured with this snake. Now, this dude here with the goat thing. His job was to pick up the snake and taunt me with a snake. And I hate snakes. Hate hate hate snakes.

"Anyway, the guy there is doing it. And then the snake came around and bit him, and he dropped the snake. And the snake came straight for me, and I'm like screaming.

"The snake people caught it at the l...