10 May 2008

Bonds Jockey for position!

Graham Rye and the 007 MAGAZINE ARCHIVE were in the news again when various areas of the media ran with an amusing image from the archive of Sean Connery relaxing in his underpants on the hotel bedroom set at Pinewood Studios during the filming of From Russia With Love back in 1963. The Daily Mail found the comparison between Sean Connery’s Jockey briefs moment with the latest 007 Daniel Craig’s emergence from the ocean in 2006’s Casino Royale too irresistible not to compare! To date this feature has run in the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (Scotland), The Sunday Times (England), Der Spiegel (Germany), and Globe magazine (USA).

RIGHT: Sean Connery on the set of From Russia With Love & Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006)

Sean Connery From Russia With Love / Daniel Craig Casino Royale

Sean Connery between takes From Russia With Love (1963)

Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi From Russia With Love (1963)

Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi relax between takes From Russia With Love (1963)

Sean Connery begins the bridal suite scene in From Russia With Love (1963)

ABOVE: Pinewood Studios 1963 - (1 & 2) Sean Connery enjoys a joke during rehearsals with his Walther PPK. (3) In this famous scene in From Russia With Love (1963), Sean Connery’s 007 enters the bridal suite bedroom… (4) …and is a ‘little upset’ to find the delicious Russian cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) at home in his bed wearing nothing but black stockings and a choker! (5) Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi relax between takes. (6) Sean sans towel! The bridal suite scene was filmed at Pinewood Studios over two days April 8-9, 1963.

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Bonds Jockey for position!

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