This is a brilliant nod to Sandie’s true character by Last Night In Soho’s writer and director Edgar Wright, as Sandie herself turns out to not be who she appears, on multiple levels. Sandie adopts the drink as her own as she wants to be seen as sophisticated, glamorous, and seductive, like the female agents associated with James Bond.Īs one of Casino Royale’s most infamous Bond Girls , however, Vesper Lynd is revealed to be a double agent.

The Vesper was born in Ian Fleming’s 1953 James Bond novel, Casino Royale, and reveals much about Sandie’s character in Last Night In Soho-both who she truly is and who she presents herself to be. In the book, James Bond instructs the bartender on how to make his drink (which is a variation of a martini) and later christens the drink the “Vesper” after the beautiful agent Vesper Lynd. Entranced by her charms, Jack asks her what she would like to drink and she orders a “Vesper,” a cocktail with a storied history that says far more about Sandie than just what she likes to sip on. In Eloise’s first dream, Sandie is in a ritzy bar, where she meets Jack and confidently informs him she is going to be a star. Related: Last Night In Soho Ending & All Twists Explained Eloise discovers that she prefers to be asleep, dreaming Sandie’s life, rather than awake and living her own, until Sandie’s life becomes a nightmare. She rents a room near campus where her dreams carry her back to the 1960s and she relives scenes from the life of the confident, witty, beautiful Sandie (played by The Queen’s Gambit’s Anya Taylor-Joy). Eloise is fresh to London from the English countryside and feels like an outsider among her fellow students-she wears the wrong clothes, listens to out-of-date music, and is constantly awkward and tongue-tied. Sandie’s 1960s story is told through the dreams and visions of a young design student, Eloise (played by Thomasin McKenzie), in the current time.

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