More from Brosnan`s interview with GQ on the set of the Ice Palace

23-Sep-2002 • Die Another Day

Here is another excerpt from Brosnan`s interview in this months GQ Magazine, where he is featured on the cover after receiving their "Actor of the Year" award:

"....for the last few months, the famed 007 sound stage at Pinewood has doubled up as Ice Palace, a vast, frozen hideout modelled on Sweden`s famous Ice Hotel, which, in keeping with Bond`s perennial problem with superabundantly evil adversaries, is presently being melted by lasers beamed from space. In lieu of a real life laser firing satellite, the guts of the building have been rigged with dozens of high-pressure hoses, primed to dump hundreds if gallons of water a minute onto the set below. What this means to the cast and crew is summed up in a message at the top of the day`s shooting schedule, "Please note that this is a wet set, please bring suitable clothes."

"Aww f*cks!" snarls Brosnan as the first freezing droplets penetrate his Nike Air Rifts. He`s required only to sit in his Aston Martin Vanquish and react as, off-camera, Bond would be nemesis du jour, played by Rick Yune, is supposedly about to broadside him in a green Jaguar, so he`s failed to put his feet on a war footing, as it were...Up on a mezzanine level, safely away from the downpour that will soon engulf the rest of the giant set, there is a slight end-of-term feel around Lee Tamahori, and the producers sit behind a video playback module. Dressed in a butter-soft leather jacket to beat the creeping cold, and clutching a cup of something soft and vitamin laden, Brosnan seems visibly to relax..."

Thanks to `Umpire` or the transcription.