Did PB did most of his stunts when he was Bond?

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Did Pierce did most of his stunts when he was Bond?

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Found this interview with one of Pierce's stunt men for Bond. At least this gentleman did not go the route of the professional chef in the other set of articles I posted in the "Eating My Words" thread!! I'm only posting an excerpt, but I posted the link to the full article below...


www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/interview_jamie_edgell.php3?id=03480&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mi6-articles+%28MI6+%3A+James+Bond+007+Articles%29


Doubling Bond
7th April 2013

Jamie Edgell shares his memories from the set of 'GoldenEye', where as fresh-faced stunt man he stood in for Pierce Brosnan...

It was his work with Crane that lead Edgell to Bond, on which the former was serving as stunt coordinator for "GoldenEye". Edgell recalls that he was "not part of the core crew" on his first Bond outing. "Bond movies have many units so I was going to be a Bond double, but not the primary Bond double."

Edgell and a skeleton crew went to St. Petersburg to capture some preliminary action for the tank chase. This work was later "intercut with stuff that was shot a Leavesden Studios, where they built the whole set," so as to destroy streets and buildings of the famed city. Because of the nature of the small unit, Edgell says, "one minute I would be doubling Bond and the next I would be putting on a costume to play a Russian."

Things took a turn for the worse for the "lovely man by the name Mark Southworth", who was set to double for Brosnan, "about two months into filming had an accident and broke his back [just] at the point where he was about to fly out to Port Reco to film all the Arecibo [observatory] sequences."

Edgell stepped in. Ultimately the relatively fresh-faced stunt man was integral to the brutal finale of "GoldenEye". "The final fight, which was underneath the Arecibo structure was me, and also the bit where he slides down the ladder - that is me and another stunt guy at the very end of the fight."

After "GoldenEye" wrapped, Edgell started working with a variety of coordinators and found work on blockbusters such as "Mission: Impossible", "The Fifth Element" and "Titanic". He was called back to Bond for both "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough" but on the latter he did not stand in for 007, but for the police officers onboard a pursuit boat in the high-speed pre-titles chase.

On set, Edgell recalls, Pierce Brosnan was the perfect gentleman. "He was absolutely wonderful - as nice a man as I ever met. His kind are few and far between, he is always a pleasure to meet; he is like an old friend you have not seen for many years. Even though we are not in the same circles, we may meet on a job, and it's like it was back then, over 15 years ago... he was very professional."