United Kingdom, April 20 -- Susan Lucci found out she'd missed out on being cast as a Bond girl from Playboy magazine.

The All My Children actress was in the running to play Domino Petachi opposite the late Sean Connery as James Bond in 1983's Never Say Never Again and even met with producer Barbara Broccoli in New York, but found out a few weeks later she hadn't got the part after Kim Basinger's role in the franchise was teased on the cover of the adult publication.

Susan told Today: "Well. yes. Well, I don't know how close I got. They saw two people in New York - one was Kim Basinger and one was me. It was a summer day. I went to the beautiful Broccoli townhouse. and I was so happy to be seen.

"Then a couple of weeks later, I was in ...