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This Article is From Oct 16, 2012

Roger Moore nearly died on the sets of The Spy Who Loved Me

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Updated : October 16, 2012 2:36 pm IST

Highlights

  • Former James Bond star Roger Moore says he almost died when a stunt went wrong while he was shooing for 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • The 85-year-old says he was filming a fight scene with co-star Curt Jurgens when he made a choreography change and was thrown across the room by a special effects blast, reported the New York Post.
  • Roger Moore was taken to hospital with several open-wounds and it took him days to recover.
  • "There's a sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me where I nearly came a cropper (died). The audience knows that the villain, Karl Stromberg, played by Curt Jurgens, is going to shoot a missile under a table at Bond. They (the producers) had me standing behind a chair which had a steel back to it that so that, when the explosion took place, I would be wound-free. I, like a stupid idiot, suggested there would be more suspense if Bond was sitting. Nobody mentioned that the seat of the chair was not reinforced. The special effects man was a little over-anxious and let off the explosion just before I got up from it (the chair). I was blown out of the chair and had smouldering holes in my back," he said.
  • The spy film series is celebrating 50 golden years on silver screen.
New York: Former James Bond star Roger Moore says he almost died when a stunt went wrong while he was shooing for 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.

The 85-year-old says he was filming a fight scene with co-star Curt Jurgens when he made a choreography change and was thrown across the room by a special effects blast, reported the New York Post.

Roger Moore was taken to hospital with several open-wounds and it took him days to recover.

"There's a sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me where I nearly came a cropper (died). The audience knows that the villain, Karl Stromberg, played by Curt Jurgens, is going to shoot a missile under a table at Bond. They (the producers) had me standing behind a chair which had a steel back to it that so that, when the explosion took place, I would be wound-free. I, like a stupid idiot, suggested there would be more suspense if Bond was sitting. Nobody mentioned that the seat of the chair was not reinforced. The special effects man was a little over-anxious and let off the explosion just before Igot up from it (the chair). I was blown out of the chair and had smouldering holes in my back," he said.

The spy film series is celebrating 50 golden years on silver screen.
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