It's an inevitability of the Bond franchise that the title character has to be recast every decade or so, but there was a particularly uneasy period in the series in which the character flip-flopped between three actors over the period of a mere six years. 1967's You Only Live Twice was announced to be Sean Connery's final film as Bond, as the actor had become fed up with the time that the role demanded, and so amateur Aussie actor George Lazenby was then hired as his replacement for 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Lazenby decided during production, however, that he was only going to do the one movie, and so the producers managed to rope Connery into returning for 1971's Diamonds Are Forever while they sought a more permanent replacement. For 1973's Live and Let Die, of course, they landed on Roger Moore, whose tenure then ran for the longest of any Bond to date (and probably ever), an incredible seven movies. Still, to see the character changing his face four times in so few years was an annoyance to fans who just wanted to get accustomed to one face for a while.
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