20 Things You Didn’t Know About Thunderball (1965)

18. “Another Time, Another Place.”

Thunderball Domino
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Demonstrating the short production turnaround on the first four Bond films, the cast and crew were filming at the Château d'Anet near Dreux in northern France whilst Goldfinger was having its French premiere in Paris.

To promote the film in France, Sean Connery drove the Aston Martin DB5 to the premiere as it was already on location to shoot the film's daring pre-credits sequence. However, he regretted doing so; whilst he was driving down the Champs-Élysées, an excitable female fan jumped into the passenger seat next to him.

Security teams extricated her from the Aston Martin and the premiere continued without a hitch, but Connery was beginning to learn the considerable personal cost of portraying James Bond...

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