Becoming Bond

"Becoming Bond" (2017) is an American comedy documentary you can watch online on iFILM. In 1969, George Lazenby — a car mechanic from Goulburn, Australia, with zero acting credits — talked his way into the role of James Bond. That alone would make a decent story.

What makes it extraordinary: after filming "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," the studio offered him a seven-picture deal and a million dollars. He turned it down. Director Josh Greenbaum structures the film as a flowing interview: the real Lazenby narrates his own life while Josh Lawson plays the younger version in dramatised sequences. Jane Seymour, Jeff Garlin, Dana Carvey and Jake Johnson fill out the cast with the right comic ease.

One of the genuinely stranger true stories to reach the screen in 2017. Stream "Becoming Bond" online on iFILM.