Sir Roger answers your questions August 2004

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Dear Sir Roger Moore.
Thank You so much for answering my questions - what a great honour to me.
Now, I still have a lot of questions for You so therefore I write You again well-knowing that I might not be lucky this time, but here I go:

Your talent as an actor is obvious (You´re absolutely great)but I just wonder if You´ve ever doubted Yourself in proportion to a role? How do You prepare Yourself for a new role/how to "create" a character?
Thank You, Sir Roger, for doing what You do.
Love and good wishes.
Jette Denmark.

I am actually a very insecure actor and approach every role with a little trepidation - particularly when I have to actually act. I am well aware that if I don't get it right then I'll never work again! I also know my limitations and what I can take on (and bear my work for UNICEF as a Goodwill Ambassador in mind too, which means some roles are inappropriate for me to play); consequently I do turn down many offers. I could never envisage myself playing Hamlet at the Old Vic either. Now, Hamlet's mother on the other hand I could do!

 

 

 

 

Dear Sir Roger Moore

Let me start off by saying that I am a huge fan of yours. It all started when my dad rented For Your Eyes Only when I was 10, from thereon I became a Bond fan and later a Moore fan when The Saint and The Persuaders showed on television in the afternoon when I came back from school.

One of my proudest moments was when I did a presentation of my project for my English class (I went to a Afrikaans school where English was our second
language) entitled "Make a difference, make someone happy". One of the chapters went entirely about your work with UNICEF and how it enspired me to try and make a difference and help others. My question is: Did your work with UNICEF changed your outlook on life, and if so, how? Reinard

As I think I have said before, UNICEF introduced to to humility. I realised that UNICEF works in a world far removed from glamorous film locations, and I learnt priorities are not about where one will eat after filming ends on any particular day, or if my shirt will be pressed the way I like it ... it's about how many children will die needlessly today, and how many of their mothers could be saved from one of many horrid diseases by a simple innoculation that costs under 20 pence. Those are now priorities foremost in my mind. Those are things we must tackle. And that is how UNICEF has changed my life - and my outlook on life

 

 

 

Hello Sir Roger,
I was wondering IF you have been asked to do Full Commentary Tracks for the New 007 Releases of your James Bond DVD which are supposed to be released in a couple years from now!

Have you been asked to do Commentary Tracks for ALL your 007 Movies? WOULD you do them if asked? Or WOULD you offer to do them for the fans that love your work? Patrick Moriarty

 

I haven't been asked. I have recorded a number of commentaries for episodes of the Saint and The Persuaders, plus The Man Who Haunted Himself and The Wild Geese ... and a little later this year there are plans to record tracks for Gold, Shout At The Devil and a few more Saint episodes. Although I don't revel in watching myself on screen, it is rather nice to sit with a colleague or two and reminisce about the making of a film or show. And it's nice that people enjoy listening - it keeps an old actor in work!

 

 

Hello Sir Roger,I understand from other interviews you've done that the atmosphere on the set of The Saint was a very happy one, and that practical jokes were the order of the day. Did any of the guest actors ever join in, or did they think it beneath them? I also wanted to ask if you remember filming with the late Polish Actor/Director Vladek Sheybal who was in one of the colour episodes of The Saint - The Helpful Pirate.Claire,LadySinclair

On a show like The Saint, we would film an episode every couple of weeks, and that meant new guest actors every fortnight. We never really had much time before starting to shoot (as I was completing the previous episode) to get to know one another (if we didn't already know one another); and so I would always try and make them feel welcome and put them at ease the moment they arrived. I never really played jokes on guests, as I think that would be unfair as they were joining an existing unit and should be made welcome, not made fun of, but together we'd have fun. Over 120-odd episodes I dare say there were one of two actors - and I use the term in the Shakespearean way - who felt tv was a little beneath them, but they needed the money, and so were a little more uptight about it all but we always made it enjoyable work.

I do remember Vladek, and indeed from the Bond film he appeared in. He was a rather quiet man, highly intelligent and a consumate professional. He was an actor who you looked forward to working with because he had everything sussed and wasn't at all pretentious. I think it was about 10 years ago that I read he died suddenly in London. A great shame, and a great actor.

 

Hello again Sir Roger
Noel here from Australia again. My question is this:
Have you met Nelson Mandela (another great humanitarian besides you)? If so, what was your impression of him? XXX Noel

 

Yes, Kristina and I met him at the UN a couple of years back. He hugged Kristina and she vowed never to wash again!

He is a very charming and kind man, and a great humanitarian as you say. That says it all.

And yes, before you ask, Kristina has since bathed.

 

 

Hullo!
How do you think about China and the people and the religion And the government there? And i want to see you! will u come to Australia?
i love u from the bottom of my heart!!!!!! Could you send your name in

Kristina and I have just spent the most wonderful time in China. I'd never actually visited before, and was taken aback at the sheer beauty of the country, and Beijing is much more modern and fast-tech than Hong Kong (which was the nearest I could claim to have been before). The people are so kind and good humoured, and made us feel so welcome.

A curious experience was when we visited the Forbidden City - I

 

recorded the English tour commentary a few years ago in Chicago, and now here we were being guided around the city .... by me!

We would love to visit again.

As regards Australia, so long as the blood wouldn't rush to my head from standing upside down, then yes I'd like to visit. Who knows, maybe one day soon that opportunity will arise..For full story of Roger in China
http://www.roger-moore.com/chine2004.htm

Sir Roger Moore.

 

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