Their names were Bond

 

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Their names were Bond

(Prodromou Luke. Rising Star. An intermediate Course. – Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001.)

 

Ian Fleming's supercool British spy James never says never - films based on his adventures go on and on. Here are only some of the actors whose name was once Bond, James Bond.

Sean Connery. In his first job, at the age of nine, Sean Connery had to deliver milk. 'Education was a luxury our family could not afford, and I left school at the age of 13,' he said. He started acting almost by accident (his real career ambition at the time was to become a professional soccer player). Connery might have continued in minor TV roles if he hadn't beaten several well-known actors to be the first actor to play superspy James Bond in 1962's Dr No. This was the first film in a series that became an enormous success in the following decade. Connery was taken on as Agent 007 after a single interview and after the producer had watched him walking down the street. Even when he was 60 years old, in 1989, Connery was named 'the sexiest man alive'. In 2000 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, so he is now Sir Sean Connery.

Roger Moore.  Born in London in 1927, Roger Moore started off wanting to be a painter but became an actor. He acted in several London theatres before joining the British Army to entertain soldiers at the end of World War Two. He then spent many years working as an actor, but also had to work as a model and a salesman to earn enough money. It wasn't until 1973 that Moore replaced Sean Connery as the new Bond in Live and Let Die. For Moore, who appeared in seven Bond films, was finally turned off the series because of the realism of the violent scenes. “I felt horrified by the last Bond film I did, A View to a Kill. This isn't Bond, these aren't Bond films. They didn't use to have blood and brains spilled all over the place.”

Махачкала, 2019