Roger Moore confessed Moonraker love scene was ‘hardest of my profession’

Roger Moore was the smoothest and suavest of James Bond actors, by no means shaken or stirred, though one specific love scene examined him like no different.

You can see the pressure on his face within the basic closing scene from his fourth outing as 007 in Moonraker – and it positively wasn’t methodology appearing.

The 1979 movie tried to money in on the brand new space-craze that had been ignited by Star Wars and was the most costly Bond movie.

Lois Chiles performed Lois Chiles performed one of many Bond girls with some of the provocative names of the franchise, CIA operative Dr Holly Goodhead.

But for Moore there was nothing good concerning the well-known scene.

Chiles spoke of their time collectively following the Bond legend’s dying in 2017.

She mentioned: “He never acted the star. He’d always include me in dinners and drinks with his family after filming. We filmed in glorious locations, in Paris, Venice and Rio de Janeiro, and most of my scenes were with Roger, including a couple of love scenes.

“Even in these, Roger can be joking to maintain the temper mild. It was by no means drudgery with Roger.”

The actor was famous in the industry for never complaining and always trying to make work as easy as possible for cast and crew, but Moonraker tested him greatly.

Moore had already battled through two trying scenes. When Bond gets trapped in a spinning zero-gravity simulator in villain Drax’s lair, the actor’s face was bruised rather badly due to the intense blasts of air used to replicate the effects of spinning.

And then, when Bond’s tricked-out gondola failed to turn into a hovercraft on the first four attempts, each time the actor was dumped into the Venetian canals, to the entertainment of watching tourists and despair of the crew who had to dry Moore off and restyle and dress him over and over.

After all that, the climactic sex scene should have been a bit of fun, surely?

In fact, being stuck inside another zero-gravity simulator to replicate the effects of being in a pod, high above the Earth’s atmosphere, was a punishing experience.

Moore later called it “the toughest scene of my profession” and explained the unbearable pressure on all his blood vessels in his face: “I used to be hanging there, with all of the blood dashing into my nostril and eyes.”

And he spoke hilariously of Bond sex scenes again on his final one-man tour of the UK.

Moore said: “Those love scenes have been often executed when the studios have been freezing chilly. So you’d say to the main woman, ‘Keep your socks on, darling.’ And socks in mattress are by no means romantic.

“Plus, when you’re shooting there’s all the crew on the rails above you, looking down going, ‘Go on, give her one Roger!’”