Its the best Bond film without a doubt.
Sir Roger should know.
And Im delighted that its the same time as not only the new Bond but the best Bond.
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What was your game of choice?Well, then we playedcheminde fer.
My game of choicewascraps.
I love rolling dice.ButI was very unwise to do all that gambling.
But I learned my lesson.
You also recall that you were asked to get your hair cut to play Bond.
Were you indulging your inner hippie-child at the time?No.
Id finished 13 and a half months of doing thePersuadersseries with Tony Curtis.
The character I played, I let his hair get longer and longer.
Those were the days when I had enough hair for it to be wavy and grow long.
We also indulged in quite a lot of champagne on the set ofPersuadersso I gained a little weight.
So I started working out like bloody mad and starving and getting my hair cut.
I finished up saying, Couldnt you get a thin, bald man to start with?
The Man With the Golden Gunmay be my favorite Bond film.
What was Christopher Lee like to work with?Oh, Christophers lovely.
I met him first in 1948.
I said, No need.
He looked down at me and said, Youll use that against me, wont you?
In the book, I said that he looked down at me rather sheepishly.
He was furious about this.
He called my assistant at Pinewood and said, I have never looked sheepish in my life!
I looked at himcoldly!
What about Herve Villechaize?Herve was a strange, strange man.
I didnt realize that was possible.
But, moving on!A View to a Killfound you working with both Christopher Walken and Grace Jones.
In fact, he and his wife came and stayed with me one Christmas in Gstaad in Switzerland.
I wouldnt give that pleasure to Grace Jones.
Would you care to elaborate on that?No.
If you cant say something nice about somebody, dont say anything.
Sean and I had dinner and wed discuss how our various production companies were trying to kill us.
Did you keep any mementos from your time as Bond?
What about the fake third nipple you wore to impersonate Lees Scaramanga?
[Laughs] No.
I dont know what happened to those.
I think Christopher took those home with him!
A lot of clothes I stole.
Cubby would say, Take what you want, which I did.
I tried to get the carpets out of the dressing room but they were stuck down too well.
He was a great, great, great man.
Controlled his drinking [pauses] up to apoint.
When he would go on a blinder, his eyes remained blue but his breath reeked of vodka.
I dont know how people do it they let their few-weeks-old babies be filmed.
But, anyway, we had this little three-week-old baby that was supposed to be ours.
I was so worried the babys head was flopping that Lee would drop it.
But then the baby stopped crying and seemed to sleep peacefully.
What it was, hed taken a deep breath of Lee Marvins alcohol-soaked breath and gone straight off!
