Roger Moore

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'Petrified' Roger Moore relied on booze and Valium on James Bond ... (Fortnite)

Roger Moore seriously struggled to film traumatising scenes in his James Bond classic For Your Eyes Only. The shoot also had the 007 star returning to the ...

For Your Eyes Only famously opens with Moore’s Bond in a helicopter dropping what appears to be Blofeld in a wheelchair down a chimney, finally killing his arch-nemesis. In this For Your Eyes Only scene, Sylvester had to act as Bond falling off the side of a cliff, which involved a sudden rope jerk right down by the bottom that could be fatal. Roger Moore seriously struggled to film traumatising scenes in his James Bond classic For Your Eyes Only.

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'Petrified' Roger Moore took booze and valium on James Bond set ... (Samachar Central)

0. Share. To calm his nerves during these scenes, Moore would take a little Valium and drank a tall glass of beer to help him through close-ups, ...

Apparently, Moore had tried to cool things down by telling them that he had been a Saint, having played The Saint before Bond in the TV series of the same name. The story goes that the holy men didn’t approve of the violence associated with the James Bond movies, but a trial at the Greek Supreme Court ruled that the religious order only owned the interiors, while the exteriors and surrounding landscape was that of the government’s. Heights weren’t the only challenge faced on the Greece shoot though, as the Eastern Orthodox monks living in the monastery at the top of the Meteora rock formation provided a terrible nuisance on the production.

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