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‘Extremely saddened and disappointed’: James Bond actor George Lazenby dropped from show after ‘creepy’ interview
There’s more to his side of the story.
Sadly George was highly offensive in his interview. All his answers revolved around sexual conquests and often very inappropriate.
I’ve met George, he’s not a bad person. But his stories need to remain in the 60’s and 70’s .
His story about becoming Bond is truly fascinating.
His escapades after are not.
George’s film is brilliant, but George is not an actor, and clearly doesn’t know how to conduct himself correctly.
'Sorry if I upset anyone but I say this stuff all the time!' :))
Apologies.......that joke was even worse than some of George's.
:D
He made an apology, that's fine, and based on some of his interviews, it looks like he's just having fun, nothing personal nor to be taken seriously.
Sure, while some of his views or perspectives are dated just understand the era that this man lived the most of his life, just like Connery and his opinions about slapping women, despite of that, many people still liked him as Bond, does it tainted him? Not, while I'm not a fan of him in actual life (or as a person), I still appreciated his works as an actor, that's the same for George.
Well, there are some worst actors out there who doesn't care about their words if it can be offending or not.
Across the internet, as in not Bond fans, probably. It's the outrage culture we now live in.
I don't know why this is so surprising, George has always bragged about women and, I mean... he is a product of his day (doesn't mean I agree with his views). He was a young guy in the swinging 60's. Again, doesn't mean I agree with him.
But does anyone ranted about that, no one even cares, but when it comes to George? It became controversial here.
Thankfully George made an apology, does Connery did the same when he'd told that statement? But still no one else's cares.
I'm not a fan of Connery, Bond or otherwise, so I am not about to defend Connery for his infamous Barbara Walters interview.
There are actors I like, that have gotten in trouble with the law, and yet I still like and respect them for their work. Connery just ins't one of them.
Simple, there's nothing to be taken seriously.
Does it make a difference that he made homophonic slurs. Or told a story where he practically raped a girl?
Is it fine because he apologised?
Yes it was accepted at the time, but people don’t care or pat one another on the back for such things nowadays. It’s not acceptable behaviour nor should it be. Sadly all of George’s stories are solely about how many women he’s bedded.
Surely there are other interesting stories to tell.
When I watch interviews from Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan or Craig do I see such sexist comments.
Well, again I would stress I don't actually know what he said.
EDIT. Offt. Yeah, doesn't sound great. Lazenby's never struck me as particularly graceful or intelligent anyway, but still... Again, stupid old man.
I don't want to speak for him, but I've never got the impression that Benny is the sort of person to indulge in "outrage culture". Sometimes people do say things that aren't appropriate, you can't just write off every case of someone being offended with the thought that 'everyone gets too upset about things nowadays'.
I'm not going to hate the guy forever or anything, but he's been a bit of a tit in interviews for a few years now and he's just keeping that up.
Cough Scarlett Johansson loves Woody Allen Cough.
I don't mean @Benny, I'm talking elsewhere. Apologies to Benny if that was how it seemed. Sorry. I'm talking about people who get off on this sort of headline, for their twitter following or wherever.
I did go look for a clip of it, to see what was said. If what he said was so bad, I wouldn't expect anyone to repeat it here. I'm surprised that it wasn't captured and upload it to YouTube.
Well, both Lazenby and Connery, they never struck me as either intelligent or graceful, both are men of the bygone era.
But at least Lazenby based on some of his other interviews is at least fun to hang out with in his interviews, you're really going to laugh, with Connery on the other hand, I mean the man's kind of boring, he's not the man I would like to hang out with, and also a bit of a snob unlike the rest of the Bond actors.
Maybe it's for the best he didn't do any more Bonds, it's hard to think what other trouble he'd have got into!
I don't think booking someone in a professional capacity is a tacit approval of everything they've done in their life, nor is it a request for them to repeat it.
Well, Connery of course had his infamous 'when and how it's ok to slap your wife' interview that's been mentioned.
I suppose one thing I'd say about this Lazenby situation is that while what he said was highly inappropriate (if I had young kids and took them to such an event I'd be angry about them hearing these stories) they are likely anecdotes and views that many other famous and respected older actors have. And yes, even the thing about him 'practically raping a girl' unfortunately. It's simply jarring to hear them being said aloud and in such a manner. Again, you've got Connery's views on women. Even lovable old Roger Moore had his share of infidelity and likely had views which may charitably be viewed as 'outdated'.
In that sense it's difficult to judge actors or give assessments of how fun they are based solely on interviews. It's not me defending any of these people either, especially Lazenby.
The grabbing of the woman story, if true, is a very different matter in my opinion. Really quite sinister. In fact if I was Lazenby I'd be taking the batteries out of my doorbell before the police ring it.