10 Biggest Lies Actors Told To Get Movie Roles

When Sean Connery departed the James Bond role, the producers of the series were understandably nervous about casting his replacement. After all, Connery was Bond, and this was decades before audiences grew accustomed to seeing a new face in the part every couple of years.

But eventually, they stumbled across Australian model George Lazenby. Lazenby was asked to audition for the role by a casting agent he had dated, but, realising that the producers would probably say "no" to someone who had zero acting experience and the wrong look, he decided to get a makeover, and invent a fake acting profile.

Lazenby started by visiting Sean Connery's barber, and asked for his hair to be cut like Bond's. He then went to Connery's tailor and picked up a suit that Connery had rejected, which fit him like a second layer of skin. With his new look set, Lazenby (along with casting director Dyson Lovell) then went to meet with Bond producer Harry Saltzman, and along the way, he invented a fake acting background for himself.

At the meeting, Lazenby decided to showcase some of that signature Bond confidence and swagger: when Saltzman asked him to sit down, he went and stood by the window instead. When asked to describe his [fake] acting history, Lazenby - who was worried he would forget it - pointed to Lovell and said "let him tell you."

But eventually, Lazenby came undone. When faced with director Peter Hunt, the actor came clean, telling him that he'd never acted a day in his life. However, rather than being mad, Hunt was impressed with the way that Lazenby had fooled everyone to get this far, and made him the next Bond.