After a record six-year gap following Timothy Dalton’s Licence To Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye – which is on ITV this afternoon – rebooted the James Bond franchise for a post-Cold War world.

The 007 movie’s femme fatale was set to be Xenia Onatopp, a Georgian fighter pilot and henchwoman to Sean Bean’s villain Alec Trevelyan.

In 1994, Courteney Cox was offered the role but turned it down due to her scheduling conflicts filming Friends.

Yet it wasn’t long before GoldenEye…