Gloria: "Where you a bit of a naughty boy in that marriage?"

Roger: (laughs) "Not that I remember."

Gloria: "You forget easily these days?"

Roger: "Oh I do, it's a wonderful thing, memory."

Gloria: "At what point did that marriage go sour?"

Roger: "Well because there wasn't a smooth separation. I understand her feelings, she didn't want to get divorced - period! It took 8 or 9 years to get one."

Roger told how he met Luisa, his third wife in Italy. Geoffrey their son said that he was a page-boy at their wedding. "It was one of the happiest days of his life. I can remember him just smiling and getting drunk."

Roger talked about when in 1993 he got Prostrate cancer, but had successful surgery. He made a life-changing decision - "You start re- valueing your life. I wasn't happy, and started saying 'do I want to go on not being happy, or do I share it with somebody who is sympathetic to MY needs? Being a selfish person.' He said of his wife Kristina " I'm very grateful, she's a wonderful person. She is kind and worries for ME, which is nice. We were just neighbours here in Paul de Vence. We were friends over the years, we played a lot of tennis together and (smiles) one thing led to another you know." A segment was shown of she and Roger working for Unicef.

Clips of "The Saint" were shown, and Roger said that Geoffrey is getting everything prepared so that a new tv series can be made. Geoffrey also spoke very enthusiastically about the project too.



Next Roger spoke about his Bond role, saying that he and the producers were old friends and were part of a poker and gin rummy school at weekends, long before he got the part. He was ambitious for the role because "I hadn't worked for a few weeks and the kids were crying!" His role as Brett Sinclair prevented him from taking the part earlier. Roger described the day he got burned "on my rear end" while filming "The Spy Who Loved me." He was supposed to stand behind a chair in the final confrontation with Stromberg, but had the idea to be actually sitting down instead.He was told to move quick when he got a signal, because the chair had an explosive device. Only he didn't move fast enough! He said "The crew laughed like hell while I was on fire, and had to go to the nurse twice a day while filming to have the dressings changed."






He spoke of his collapse while in a broadway show "The Play What I Wrote" and insisted on carrying on.  Kristina realised something was wrong and dashed backstage,  insisting he get to a hospital, where he was fitted with a heart pacemaker. Roger said that after that "Every day is precious." He was most proud to be knighted, but wished that his parents could have been there too. He now loves to do commentaries for documentaries because "all the words are in front of me."

Michael Caine spoke of his great admiration of him, both as a friend, and his Unicef work.

At the end of the show, Roger said "I've had a life packed with fun, excitement and I've been paid for it."

 More info on Roger's interview on previous page too.

Thank you so much for the interview and pictures. You're the best!!!!

Amber,

As always, you did a fantastic job writing all these things down and posting pictures! I can imagine this must have not been an easy task to do.  :smt008

What do you think of Geoffrey in the pic? Amber, did you purposefully take a caption of Geoffrey in which he has a facial expression similar to his father's on the pic above, or it just happened this way?  :smt002 Even though they look different in many ways, there's still something that gives them away as father and son.

Big thanks for your kind comments Plantagenet and Sunny.

Geoffrey has a lot of his father's facial expressions - especially the way his eyebrows move when he talks. He smiles a lot,  is very charming and has a wonderful voice, and altogether a very likeable man. Just like his dad!

Also on the tv show they had a newsreel of when Roger married Luisa.  Here's a couple of pics from it. The lady kissing Roger is actress Angela Douglas, seen here with her husband, actor Kenneth More. They were good friends of Roger's and were witnesses for the marriage. Some time earlier, Roger and Luisa were witnesses for their marriage too.

Angela appeared in an episode of "The Saint" with Roger - "The Death Game." She played the female lead, a student,  who went with Simon to a country gathering, to investigate who was recruiting students  as assassins.

Thanks Amber for the wonderful pics and commentary, you are wonderful.  :smt001

Thanks Goodnight007.2, glad you liked them.

If you click on this link to "The Biography Channel" there's a short snippet of Roger speaking to Gloria Hunniford about "The Spy Who Loved Me" on the tv show.

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/se ... _Moore.htm

Thanks Amber - have seen this before elsewhere.