20 Things You Didn’t Know About Live And Let Die (1973)

19. The Fool

Live and Let Die Bond Solitaire
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Roger Moore was a well-known prankster, making him an ideal actor to portray a lighter-hearted incarnation of James Bond. He certainly started as he meant to go on in Live And Let Die, but it did not always go to plan.

Moore noticed how, when the cast and crew had their lunch break at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, Jane Seymour would invariably come in and ask each person in turn to pass the tomato ketchup, the salt, and other condiments, so he discreetly plotted with the crew to turn the tables on her.

One day, when the Solitaire actress came into the commissary and sat down, the rest of them all got up and left, leaving Jane Seymour in tears. Years later, Sir Roger revealed in his autobiography that he deeply regretted this practical joke.

He perhaps made up for his off-set antics when he grabbed Jane Seymour's hair to keep her from falling off of the gantry that they were standing on during the sequences set in Kananga's underground cavern on Pinewood's D Stage.

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