Sean Connery and Roger Moore had been BOTH supplied the identical two Bond movies

Connery and Broccoli had famously fallen out and refused to be on set on the similar through the filming of 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever.

Asked the way it was potential for audiences to go and see two totally different Bonds in the identical 12 months, Moore made the purpose that you may go to London and see two Hamlets or Midsummer Night’s Dreams enjoying.

Asked which his model of Bond was, Moore shortly quipped, “Hamlet.”

Ever the suave charmer, Moore later spoke of the state of affairs in his autobiography, My Word Is My Bond.

He mentioned: “There was no animosity between Sean and me. We didn’t react to the press speculation that we had become competitors in the part. In fact, we often had dinner together and compared notes about how much we’d each shot and how our respective producers were trying to kill us with all the action scenes they expected us to do.”