'I'm a Happy Hypochondriac,' Says Roger Moore
April 14, 2009
For most of his 81 years, Sir Roger Moore has played invincible leading men. But behind the scenes he has cheerfully hidden a list of real (and imagined) ailments. ‘You are late,’ says Sir Roger Moore in a deep growl. I apologise. I had thought the interview was at nine o’clock. ‘I am just off to the funeral parlour,’ he continues.
I am flummoxed.
‘April Fool!’
Of all the things Sir Roger Moore has lost over the years (appendix, tonsils, adenoids, a sensitive snip in a circumcision and more recently his prostate), his sense of humour is not one of them. ‘If you don’t have humour,’ he says, still laughing, ‘then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.’
Today, the 81-year-old actor is best known for the film role he calls ‘Jimmy Bond’ – the part he played in six 007 films from 1973’s Live And Let Die until his last, A View To A Kill, at the ripe old age of 57.
Home for Sir Roger is typically Bond-like – in winter it’s a chalet in the exclusive Swiss resort of Crans Montana, shared with his glamorous fourth wife Kristina; then in spring it is in tax-exile haven Monaco; and summers are spent in a house in the South of France.
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