Australia's 007 says James Bond limited sex life
Sydney (dpa) - The Australian actor who played James Bond in one film walked away from the role because he could not get enough sex, it was reported Saturday.
George Lazenby, a 28-year-old car salesman and part-time model from a country town, won the coveted role of super spy James Bond from the retiring Sean Connery in 1969.
Lazenby had no acting experience but did a creditable performance in the action-packed Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
In an interview with the Weekend Australian from his Los Angeles home, Lazenby said he refused to do another Bond film because the suave character in a dinner suit turned off women.
"It was hippie time and getting laid in a suit was difficult,"Lazenby, now aged 76, told the newspaper.
"You had to have long hair and bell bottoms. It was the time of Easy Rider. Bond was part of the establishment.
"I was restricted to about five women for nine months. I'm not bragging but once in a while, before I was Bond, I passed that number in a day," he said. "It was a wonderful, crazy time."
Lazenby said his agent told him Bond was passe and he turned down a million-pound offer to sign up to do the next Bond film. It was a bad move, as Bond got bigger and bigger and Lazenby's movie career dried up.
But he went on to make a fortune in California real estate.
