Sir Roger Moore - `James Bond is too violent`

12-Nov-2008 • Bond News

James Bond actor Roger Moore says the new 007 film Quantum of Solace is too violent for his tastes - reports The Telegraph

The 81-year-old played the super spy with a tongue-in-cheek humour which has long since disappeared from the franchise.

"I am happy to have done it, but I'm sad that it has turned so violent," Moore said. "That's keeping up with the times, it's what cinema-goers seem to want and it's proved by the box office figures."

Quantum of Solace, starring Daniel Craig, set a new British box office record on its opening weekend and has taken more than $100 million worldwide so far.

Moore's Bond movies included Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun and For Your Eyes Only. But by the time of his seventh and last outing as 007, A View To A Kill, the franchise had already become too violent for him. "That wasn't Bond," he said.

Asked about his legacy - he starred in television series The Saint and The Persuaders in addition to Bond - Moore said: "I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets. But, as that's not going to happen, I'm quite happy I did Bond."

The actor is promoting his memoir, My Word Is My Bond, in which he recalls a bust-up with Grace Jones on the set of A View To A Kill - pulling the plug on her stereo and flinging a chair against the wall becaue she was playing loud music.