Andrew:
Hello readers! It’s Day 4 of our 7 Days of 007 and tonight we watched
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the first Bond movie made without Sean
Connery as 007. Connery had decided after You Only Live Twice that he was
finished with the role, so the producers moved on with a new actor as their
star, and they found George Lazenby. He was a model in a commercial the
producers saw and was given an audition, which he won.
Sarah, now that we’ve seen On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,
tell me – what did you think of Lazenby’s portrayal of Bond?
Sarah: At
first I was a little skeptical as to whether or not he was going to work, but
as the movie progressed I actually didn’t mind him! I actually liked him in the
role. I felt he did a good job. Sometimes I feel with Connery that he’s a
little too smug, like he knows he can get by on his good looks and his charm. I
didn’t get that with Lazenby.
I also found this to be much more action-packed than any of
the Connery ones we’ve watched this week. Lazenby does a great job with the
action scenes, and that separated him from Connery to me. I thought he did a
great job.
A: He’s
certainly not the greatest actor in the world, but I thought he did fine for
character in his only turn as Bond. Like you, at first I wasn’t sure how he’d
fit in the role as he starts off kind of bland, but as the movie goes along he
kind of starts to come into the character as his own. We got used to it.
