A unique documentary/narrative hybrid chronicling the stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next six Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down…
Becoming Bond
Related articles in the media:
Variety: ‘Becoming Bond’ Director Sees George Lazenby and Daniel Craig as Kindred Spirits
Variety: Film Review: ‘Becoming Bond’
The Guardian: George Lazenby on Bond, sex and the 60s: ‘They had the pill … I was a handsome guy’
USA Today: ‘Forgotten’ James Bond actor says he had a fan in Roger Moore
New York Post: He played James Bond once — then disappeared
City News (Australia): It’s Lazenby, George Lazenby, of Queanbeyan