George Lazenby on Drugs

Absolutely_Cart

I don't mean on literally.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/107916272

Hardyboy

Groovy.

Thunderpussy

Good old George.

Absolutely_Cart

Ironically, he quit LSD but became an alcoholic.

I'll take LSD (0 deaths) over alcohol (thousands of deaths), please.

Thunderpussy

Although using some LSD, might. Just might help understand CR67.

Absolutely_Cart

^ haha.

Gala Brand

Drugs. That might help explain why Lazanby decided to stop playing Bond.

I'd always ascribed the decision to a lack of intelligence.

HatThrowingHenchman

he did explain though why he decided not to carry on

Silhouette Man

It was that particular time period (the late 60s/early 70s) and George Lazenby blamed his giving up of the Bond role on the Hippy Revolution. His agent gave him what turned out to be the poor advice of with Bond being a conservative character Lazenby would be going down with a sinking ship if he stayed with Bond. Also, his agent told him that as he had played Bond once he would be a superstar and there was therefore no need for him to play the Bond role again as he could move on to brighter and better things. Who really knew back then? Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course but it comes too late to be of any use.

Absolutely_Cart

Lazenby was in a sense very right. That's why Moore played a more peaceful Bond - instead of a violent one.

HatThrowingHenchman

and GL was describing himself as cocky and arrogant

well even RM seldomly had violent scenes I like

Thunderpussy

Roger had to learn to " Control the rage, within him !"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg

HatThrowingHenchman

Thunderpussy wrote:

Roger had to learn to " Control the rage, within him !"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg

maybe not like this )

Thunderpussy

AC, will probably assume this is why Roger said " Thank you" all the time.

HatThrowingHenchman

haha )

welshboy78

What was GL relationship with Ronan O'Rahilly later down the years??

Gala Brand

HatThrowingHenchman wrote:

he did explain though why he decided not to carry on

Yeah, I know, some guy convinced him that the Bond franchise was finished due to changing attitudes. But George, if he had an ounce of sense and wasn't on drugs, should have considered the fact that he had no other serious offers. I mean were Hitchcock, Peckinpaugh, and Kubrick beating down his door?

Since he had nothing else on tap, why not do Bond and make a ton of dough while learning how to act? And I'm sure that all famous actors have people giving them bad advice, but most of them are smart enough to ignore it.

Absolutely_Cart

He was probably exhausted. He went from a used car salesman to an actor on one of the biggest roles in film history. That could drain any inexperienced actor

Grindelwald

Walken did acid with Raul Julia in the 60s.....also Walkens deer hunting buddy , de Niro , was supposedly gonna do coke with Belushi the day Belushi died , this prolly scared the crap out of de Niro & he quit drugs.