20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
12. “You’ve Shot Your Bolt, Stromberg. Now It's My Turn!”
Roger Moore often got flack from critics for letting stunt doubles do most of the dangerous work on his Bond films, but he still had a daring side.
During the final confrontation between Double-0 Seven and Karl Stromberg, James Bond was to have remained standing behind the chair that the megalomaniac invites him to sit down in. Instead, Moore decided that it would be more exciting if Bond was sat in the chair, so he spontaneously sat in it during filming.
The back of the chair had been prepared to explode by the special effects team and sitting in it placed the actor at great personal risk for the sequence in which Stromberg fires a gun with exploding bullets at Double-0 Seven underneath his dining room table.
Moore only just leapt out of the chair in time before it actually exploded. Although he received only minor injuries filming the scene, he carried them with him for the rest of his life.