- Queen Elizabeth appeared in a video with Daniel Craig for the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
- The video’s co-writer says the late monarch volunteered to make an appearance.
- She also reportedly told director Danny Boyle she “should have a line” before delivering the improv’d line, “Good evening, Mr. Bond.”
A decade before her death, Queen Elizabeth II made a appearance in a James Bond video. She didn’t have lines. The video’s co-writer says that the queen felt she should have a line before she improvised.
The co-writer of Queen Elizabeth’s James Bond video recalls how it was made during a news appearance.
Mark Tildesley came up with the idea of Queen Elizabeth jumping out of a helicopter into Olympic Stadium with Daniel Craig. The host Naga Munchetty was told that nobody had a better idea than him.
He said that the producer of the opening ceremony was going to be surprised during a Buckingham Palace meeting.
Seaward went to ask permission to use the queen’s likeness and dress a body double in the same outfit the queen would be wearing at the ceremony. The queen said that she would participate.
The remarkable woman, who was the queen’s dresser, asked why she was doing all this. Seaward said they could make it look like the queen. The queen wants to do that.
He said she put herself up for that. She wanted to be part of that sketch.
The Queen Elizabeth James video did not include lines for the monarch. There is a reason? I did not know how you would type the character of the queen. There is a person who said that, Cottrell Boyce.
The queen’s only line in the video was “Good evening, Mr. Bond”, he said. The queen told the director to have a line.
On the day that we were filming, she said that she should have a line. He told the radio station there wasn’t a line in the script that she improvised on.
The queen was again in front of the camera. 70 years on the throne was marked by her appearance in a Paddington bear video.
The writer said that the queen had more lines because it was cheaper to film her than to film Paddington. It was described as a brilliantly timed comic performance from the queen.
He said that Paddington isn’t in the room. She is acting with an eye line and someone is pretending to be Paddington. That is acting that is being done. I think that it is true happiness.