![]() ![]() Collins, by then fresh from portraying a sophisticated SAS operative in Who Dares Wins (1982), had gotten an audition thanks to Barbara Broccoli, who – taken in by Collins’s performance – suggested to his father that he was worth another look. Having already had a brief, unsuccessful meeting back in 1980, it was only the combination of Roger Moore departing the franchise after contract disputes, and the financial collapse of Kevin McClory’s attempted Thunderball remake, which had conspired to open both men a second chance. At least not at first, and certainly not by the end of it, but there was a time in which the powerful Bond producer developed sufficient faith on the intense British actor to take on a substantial gamble on his behalf. Cubby Broccoli wasn’t fond of Lewis Collins.
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