Morbid - A Life Lived Podcast Sneak Peek

Episode Date: September 18, 2019

Audioboom presents A Life Lived, a podcast that chronicles the lives of some of the most famous and fascinating deceased celebrities. Each Monday, journalist Stephanie Okupniak will speak with those closest to the star to get their most personal stories. Be it Amy Winehouse, David Bowie or Stan Lee, no one is out of reach. Check out A Life Lived on Apple Podcasts or anywhere you stream podcasts.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome to a life lift. I'm Stephanie O'Coupnick. He just was one of those people that whatever he did, he wanted to do it as best as he could. He was a good painter. He wrote well. Roger grew up in Southwest London, the son of a policeman. His father also dabbled in amateur dramatics and magic. So Roger always had an appreciation for the arts, but acting was not his dream. He wanted to be a cartoonist, and his father tried to help him get a leg up into the industry. He was a very talented sketch artist. This is Gareth Owen, Sir Roger's personal assistant and close friend.

He said that his father helped getting this job as a junior animator and he said that involved really making the tea and You know getting the sandwiches from the bakery down the road and taking film to the processors, you know taking film to the labs And he got fired because there were a couple of things first of all he discovered that by Taking the film on the tube rather than going in a taxi. He could save money Now the thing was you you weren't allowed to take film on the tube rather than going in a taxi he could save money now the thing was you you weren't allowed to take film on the tube because it was nitrate and explosive so they gave him money for a taxi but he never took a taxi he always took the tube and pocketed the difference and after about three or four weeks of course had quite a few pounds profit in his pocket

so they discovered that and weren't very happy and they they also sent him off to make the tea one day. And I think there was a leaky tap or something in the kitchen and he blew the whole thing up. So it was sort of a combination of a couple of things and they said, you know, we think you better go. You're going to give me another bell on it. Living Let Die was the first of seven legendary bond films Sir Roger Moore would star in. Filming in New Orleans and Jamaica, he wanted to keep his family close. It was around the time of Trick or Treat and for some reason there had been a spat of

these awful people, you know, putting razor blades in apples and just doing hot stupid things so that when we came back to the hotel room with all these bags of sweets and things, dad wouldn't let us touch anything because he said, you know, I want to make sure everything's fine. I mean, what, he was like chomping through all our cookies and sweets. You know, this is this one's all right. Yes, no, this one's okay. Yeah. Like, anyway, no, there were no apples with razor blades in them, but he had a really wicked sweet tooth. Film sets would become a second home to Roger, and the crew is extended family. If there was ever a soda siphon on set, the cast would look sort of quite scared when they knew he was on set and there was a soda siphon.. And the crew and you know, when they finished the take, he'd get the soda siren squared everybody. But he knew they couldn't

get him back because they were moving on to another take and he had to be immaculate in his outfit in his costume. So he knew he could get them but they couldn't get him. You know, you can't touch me on the star. Roger Moore became synonymous with 007 with a hefty repertoire of film and television under his belt. He couldn't leave the house without being stopped. Walking down the street, it would always be us, the kids that would get annoyed when people would stop and say, oh, what do you want to do with your order? I think, come on, dad, come on. And he would always stop, always sign an autograph, even in a restaurant, if somebody came over,

can we take a picture, of course, not a problem? And I remember he turned around to a very good friend of ours. And he said, you know, it's these people that put me here. He'd be surprised that cabbies wouldn't like charging. So he'd leave them a tip that was larger than the bloody fat. Sir Rogers portrayal of James Bond would come to a close with a view to a kill in 1985. He was the oldest and longest reigning James Bond, and he would continue to act over the next 30 years. Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Morvid, early and ad-free

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