10 Making-Of Movie Secrets Hidden In Plain Sight

10. Roger Moore Was Painted Into A Scene To Prevent Reshoots - The Spy Who Loved Me

Though reshoots are typically factored into shooting schedules these days, that wasn't always the case, and so in decades past if the director realised a piece of footage was missing while editing their film, they could be left in a real spot of trouble.

But director Lewis Gilbert got creative during post-production on Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me, when he realised that he needed a shot of 007 propped against a wall while sneaking around Egypt.

Rather than bring Roger Moore back for reshoots at presumably considerable expense, Gilbert simply had a matte painting created of Moore leaning against a rock and composited it into the rest of the shot.

Thanks to the scene's generally low-lighting it's surprisingly difficult to spot, though if you crank the brightness up on your TV it sticks out like a sore thumb.

The fact that so few viewers have noticed this more than 40 years later speaks to how ingeniously it solved the problem, really.

As noted on the splendid @SMERSHPOD, a painting of Roger propped against a rock in Spy Who Loved Me, to save a reshoot. Impossible to unsee. pic.twitter.com/80aFaSVpjH

— ali catterall (@AliCatterall) August 1, 2017