“harmlessly sadistic” such a great phrase.
I never understood Roger’s assertion that everybody knew that Bond was a spy. They knew his name, yes, but they were surely under the impression he worked for Universal Exports?
Roger Moore was a witty man who also said that he did his own stunts and certainly his love scenes. his scene with Grace Jones shows fear in his eyes, I wonder if that was acted.
Phew…had Mr Big any doubts about Bond’s reasons to pop up in his backyard? Scaramanga? Stromberg? I don’t think Moore’s Bond ever had any cover more substantial than his dinner jacket.
I assumed it was the same cover across all films, there was no reason for them to keep repeating it.
The cover is probably so he can roam freely about the place (restaurants, casinos, airlines etc), more than trying to convince the bad guy that he is a genuine businessman.
Despite Sir Roger’s claims to the contrary, we all know that NOT ONCE, in the entire canon, has a bartender ever seen Bond come in and immediately start shaking up a vodkatini for the famous British spy. It’s always been someone who either already knew Bond by reputation or had been briefed (Dr. No, Tanaka, Draco, Anya, Manuela) or who had met him before (Paris, the Vienna concierge). The rest of the time he’s ordered it himself (GF, NSNA, LTK, GE, DAD, CR, QoS).
I suppose he just never got over the idea that Bond’s reputation had preceded him into the private sector to the point where everyone from an American smuggler to a Macau gunsmith knew of him by name, but neither Tiffany, Lazar nor Drax ever offered him his signature drink.
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I’ve always felt that actors are not the best to judge the series of films or television that they appear in. In many cases, they have never seen them. For example, Kiefer Sutherland has never seen an episode of 24, though he obviously read the scripts. Equally, if you ask an actor which was their favourite episode of their show, they will always pinpoint one in which they featured heavily or was given particularly “dramatic” material to play.
Not true. He became a producer on his show - and rest assured he weighed in on it.
I don’t mean to argue, friend, but
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Most actors don’t watch anything they’re in. It never stops feeling like you’re watching a home movie.
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Many musicians also don’t listen to their albums once they’re finished. But there are noteworthy exceptions: I once read in an interview with Keith Richards that, in the time when they’re recording a new Rolling Stones album, he listens to the Rolling Stones and nothing else.
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He’s lying. Ask his co-producers. They know more than click-baiting entertainment journalists.
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So which is it? Is he lying or are the journalists reporting it misleading us?
Kiefer made those comments on television on two occasions, to Jimmy Kimmel and Jonathan Ross. I’ve seen those interviews myself, and I doubt they were deep-fakes.
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“I haven’t watched an episode of 24, no. But I know how it goes, I have read the script.”
This stance is VERY common, but he’ll have watched quite a few bits of it as a producer. He’ll have been having many opinions with the writers 
…and then many opinions with the director (I assume)
Before having many opinions with editors, but you’ll have to ask @odd_jobbies for the commonality of that.
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Yes, I don’t doubt that. He would’ve been influential in deciding the direction of each season he co-produced, making comments and suggestions on outlines, scripts, his own performances, as shown in several behind-the-scenes segments. He would also, as he himself said, looped some lines for ADR etc. But he hasn’t seen a whole episode, just snatches of scenes here and there.
He. Is. Lying.
Just to come across as cool or “charmingly insecure about himself”.
Well, he is… an actor.
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With respect, that’s your opinion, and there’s no evidence to suggest it’s true. As Orion said, it’s a very common thing for actors. Just the other day, for example, actress Zoe Wannamaker was interviewed on The One Show and admitted that she hasn’t seen a single episode of My Family, despite there being 120 of them. Is she lying too? Are all such people lying when they say that?
You’re usually more cautious, measured, and reasoned than this, SAF, without tipping into baseless cynicism (so easy to do, and something I’m often guilty of myself), which is one of the reasons I use this forum over the others.
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I don’t know why it is so important for you to have Mr. Sutherland insist on never having watched “24” - but it is my cautious, measured and reasoned conclusion that he is just doing the usual “aw, shucks, I’m so insecure”-schtick when saying this.
If you ever encountered an actor who is also producing you would know that he/she is watching every second and - as Orion said it so accurately - demanding his opinion to be heard.
It’s not important to me, I just thought it was quite a strange assertion to make. An actor who’s also co-producing can make his opinions heard without seeing the end product. Indeed, he will have even less reason to watch it as he knows there are people who would have obeyed his instructions.
But let’s move on - soon, anyway.
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I don’t do scripted these days, just factual. But there was one high profile knob that was the star of a factual show i did that still gives me a cold sweat at the thought. He actually (at first without any of the editors’ knowledge) had the production company run off every scene he was in order to make sure we didn’t miss his ‘best bits’!
Then when you think you’re finally locked you get a surprise set of notes asking where this ‘great’ bit and that ‘best’ bit was. They weren’t in the cut because they simply weren’t very good - usually way too laboured, but viola the Exec suggests (read as ‘no bloody choice’) we put them in ‘to keep him happy’.
Does Kiefer do this? Who knows, but i guess he could technically say he’s never watched an ep and still make such demands. My feeling is that most contributors/actors want a producer credit often solely to control how they alone are presented. In Craig’s case i’m guessing this enhances things, but some inevitably abuse the privilege.
If Kiefer’s a producer, yet has never watched a whole ep i’ll wager he’s only watching the bits he made happen on set to make sure they stay in and are indeed the way he wanted them (maybe there’s a bit of extra cash for him too - can’t blame him for that).
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