20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

8. “Egyptian Builders!”

The Spy Who Loved Me Jaws
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A representative of the Egyptian government accompanied the filmmakers whilst they filmed in the country.

When Bond takes advantage of Jaws’s ineptitude and leaves him buried under some collapsing scaffolding at The Temple of Karnak, Roger Moore mimed the words for Double-0 Seven’s off-the-cuff witticism. The crew missed what he had said (just as Moore had intended) and it was agreed that he would record his dialogue back at Pinewood Studios.

This was because it was feared that Bond’s “Egyptian builders” line would offend the representative on-set whose job was to ensure that Egypt was not portrayed in a negative light.

Ironically, the line got a tremendous laugh from Egyptian audiences upon the film's release.

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