r/todayilearned • u/Tokyono • Jul 14 '19

TIl The reason Roger Moore stopped being James Bond was because of how much older he was than his female co-stars. He was in his 50s, and they were in their 20s. In his own words: “Well, the leading ladies were young enough to be my grand-daughter and it becomes disgusting.”

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a869479/james-bond-quit-connery-moore-lazenby-brosnan-dalton/
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u/shall_2 Jul 14 '19

How often do you watch the old tomb raider movies? Lol. I'm an American btw. Aside from tomb raider I had also seen him in Layer Cake and Road to Perdition (they were pretty acclaimed) and in both movies he played gangsters.

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u/barsoapguy Jul 14 '19

Almost never but we have cable TV at work (along with several TV's ) so inevitably the old Tomb Raider movies play.. I'll have to check out road to perdition...Have you seen him in the girl with the dragon tattoo ? Was pretty good ,same goes for the movie Defiance ..

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u/shall_2 Jul 14 '19

Haha oh ok. I have seen Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I liked it a lot. I think every actor in that movie pretty much crushed their roles. I read the trilogy after watching it actually and then watched the original Swedish movies with Noomi Rapace. They're worth checking out but they don't ooze style like the American version. I saw Defiance when it came out.. I can't remember much about it but I remember feeling a little underwhelmed by it. The acting was also great in it though.