He was "in love" with Tommy Smothers.
Posted on 06/13/2015 11:46:52 AM PDT by EveningStar
If Sir Christopher Lee had just been a movie star, he would still have been an icon. But the late actor, who passed away last week, had an amazing life even beyond his incredible body of work. Whether you’re still lamenting his passing or unsure why his death is such a loss, here’s 22 reasons why Christopher Lee will always be a legend.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
“15) Lee was a major Tolkien fan, reading The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy once a year for the majority of his life. He was the only member of the movie cast to have met Tolkien personally — apparently he ran into him randomly in a pub — and fanboyed out. Tolkien actually gave him his blessing to play Gandalf in any future Lord of the Rings movie.”
“17) The story has gone around a lot, but it bears repeating because it is incredible: During his death scene in Return of the King (only included in the Extended Edition to Lee’s disapproval), director Peter Jackson was describing to him what sound people getting stabbed in the back should make. Lee gravely responded that he had seen people being stabbed in the back, and knew exactly what sound they made.”
I would have loved to see him play Gandalf.
M4L
bfl
Truly a Man’s Man!
An amazing man; I had no idea. Thanks for posting!
He was "in love" with Tommy Smothers.
I read somewhere that half the people in Western Europe are descended from Charlemagne, many wives, mistresses, and most of his children lived into adulthood.
Thanks for posting!
I had no idea bout 92% of that stuff.
He was obviously a heck of a guy in real life!
That was an awesome role. “My men are tough dudes, Holroyd!”
As an SOE member, he was more than likely the one stabbing.
“When Wormtongue rises up and comes up behind Saruman to stab him, of course it was my job as director to talk to Christopher Lee and to explain to him what I wanted, so I started to go into this long explanation about what sort of sound he should make when he got stabbed,” he explained.
Lee: “I seem to recall that I did say to Peter, ‘Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.”
Jackson: “He proceeded to talk about some sort of very clandestine part of World War II. He seemed to have expert knowledge of exactly the sort of noise that they make and so I just sort of didn’t push the subject any further.”
If I was Jackson I'd say: "I won't put in the movie, but what DOES it sound like?"
I'd be fascinated to hear it in Lee's voice.
His booming voice telling Holroyd: "If a man in this profession isn't earning his age in salary, he's a loser!"
Holroyd: "I guess that makes me a loser for five years."
I am sick to death of internet clowns describing their posts as “incredible”, “amazing” or “unbelievable”.
Lee described it in another Youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4C2TclYZE
Essentially, the way that it occurred in the deleted scene (because Saruman’s death was not in the theatrical cut) was done as Christopher Lee said it would: a sudden gasp of sorts, disturbingly quiet for such a violent act.
Then Martin Mull says " . . . five years."
People who haven't seen this movie just are mystified when I tell them this is in my 10 ten movies ever.
Kate: "I can't believe I called the high priest a c#05sucker."
It's been so long since I saw Serial I got mixed up.
Martin Mull holds up his hand and says "five years".
Just for fun I found out how much 30K was in 1979 dollars, using the inflation calculator.
$94,000
So Christopher Lee was correct.
Mull was making an OK living by San Marino standards at the time, but he would have still been a "loser" per Lee.
Wow! I wonder what kind of ops Lee was into that he would “know” that by personal experience.
I've got to see this movie again, just to see how many things actually came true.
Read this article. Movies aside, he was an incredible person.
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