Queen Elizabeth pitched herself to appear in the 2012 Olympic sketch alongside Daniel Craig’s James Bond
The late monarch also insisted on having a speaking role in the scene
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While many appeared in skits pretending to be Queen Elizabeth II, there were two rare occasions where she insisted on being in on the fun as herself: In the 2012 Olympic James Bond sketch and the recent tea time scene with Paddington Bear for the Platinum Jubilee.
In the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s death, screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell-Boyce shares that it was the late monarch’s own idea to participate in the closing scene for the London Olympics opening ceremony alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Cottrell-Boyce—who wrote the 2012 Olympics ceremony—says a member of the team was sent to Buckingham Palace in order to take photos of Queen Elizabeth’s ceremony outfit and other images for set building when they were told she wanted to star in the skit herself.
“The queen’s dresser said, ‘Why are you doing all this?’ And we told her, ‘so we can make it look like the queen.’ So she said: ‘Oh, the queen wants to do it,’” he explains to THR. “She put herself up for that, she wanted to be in the sketch.”
In the scene, she says “Good evening, Mister Bond.” This line was another idea of hers. “On the day we were filming, she said to Danny Boyle, ‘I think I should have a line,’” he adds. “She bagged that. She didn’t have a line in the script.”
Back in June, she also shared a tea time scene with national darling Paddington Bear, where the two bonded over their love of marmalade sandwiches.
“She had a lot more lines in the Paddington sketch, partly because it was a lot cheaper to film her than to film Paddington,” Cottrell-Boyce says. “But she did that brilliantly and with evident enjoyment. And it wasn’t easy. Paddington’s not really there, so it’s technically an amazing performance and a brilliantly timed comic performance.”
Paddington Bear shared a message in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s death yesterday, paying homage to their shared scene together.
In the skit, Padding tells the late Queen Elizabeth, “Happy Jubilee Ma’am. And thank you. For everything.” She replies, “That’s very kind.”
Following the announcement of her death, the Paddington Bear Twitter account wrote, “Thank you Ma’am, for everything.”
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Ok, here’s the scene:
Paddington Bear is having tea with Her Majesty The Queen; and then Her Highness orders the corgis (and the dorgi, I guess) to tear him to pieces!
So, Danny Boyle first pitched “28 Minutes Later”?
I heard after filming she also ordered Daniel Craig to pleasure her sexually. Its a little know fact that the Queen of England has the right to order any actor playing a historically British character to have sex with them. She’s had every Bond and every Doctor Who. They even rigged up a state of the art VR rig so she could have her way with Paddington. The Queen was a freak
She had sex with Batman’s butler too, back in the day.
I heard she had Michael Caine, Andy Serkis and Jeremy Irons in a three way
Yes, but the way she pounced on the main trio of Harry Potter actors once they turned 18 was not in the best of taste
She’s had every Bond and every Doctor Who.I’m assuming this includes Jodie Whitaker.
Tf is wrong with you?
I think most people would call it a sense of humour.
It looks like some kind of sick revenge porn to me. Grow up.
My guess is that he hasn’t been fucked in 40 years..
The thing I always remember about the James Bond bit was when the Queen (this time a body double) parachuted out of the helicopter and Bob Costas seemed to genuinely think it was the actual Queen
I’d expect no less from the guy who reported on live TV during the Olympics with pink eye in both eyes.
I am of the opinion that there is no place for hereditary monarchies in the modern world, and there is no justification for the inherited wealth of the British Royal Family. On the other hand, she didn’t choose to be born into this nonsense, and in the circumstances seems to have been a reasonably well-adjusted woman who performed her role as well as could be expected, and retained a decent sense of humour. So I have no intention of mourning her, but am still a little sad at her passing.
I agree with all of that, up to the point where she was an adult and had every reason to learn about and understand her family’s and country’s own history, and chose to continue with that institution instead of saying “this is bullshit and needs to be dismantled.”
It’s a fair point, but I also expect it’s very easy to rationalise the status quo when you are born into a role so key to that status quo.
Oh for sure, it’s easy to explain why she wouldn’t have done it; but that just means she was unwilling (certainly not unable) to do the right thing.
What kind of “right thing” do you think she should have done?
Dismantle the monarchy.(Try to stop yourself from saying “but that would be really difficult and not something she could easily do herself.” Yeah. I know.)
She was born in 1926 and, despite our attempt to revise history, a woman still had to do what she was told; what she was expected to do. King Edward VII strolled right off and said “fuck it.” Tell me how QEII would have been able to do that? Thank your own gender (I assume you’re a man) for that inconvenience.
At best she could abdicate, like her Nazi-loving uncle Edward VIII did. But that doesn’t end the monarchy any more than a US president resigning ends the presidency. In both cases there are successors written into law.
Laws can be rewritten. At the very least it would be a simple step to remove the monarch’s position as head of state. Let them remain in the position symbolically, if that’s what you want, but take away any connection to the reins of government. As far as I’m aware, that’s how the Spanish royals operate. In fairness, that’s also how the Queen operated, but she was never legally prohibited from stopping a law coming into effect.
But that would be Parliament’s job to get rid of the monarchy as head of state. What I object to is people blaming the current royals themselves for the existence of the system. Yes, they can refrain voluntarily from using the (very few) actual political powers they have, as they have mostly done, but they have no legal way of divesting themselves of these powers short of abdication, which simply makes soneone else monarch.
100% agree. They could argue in favour of Republicanism but only parliament could instigate it.
She was dismantling it. She oversaw the largest de-colonization in the crowns history. With allowing countries to part ways with the crown as head of state. It was never a burn it all down, as that is asinine and irresponsible, but a slow and gradual march forward for those that wished. She had a responsibility that even for those that wished for change to hold the relationship between the two in the utmost importance, to always even after the change maintain a friendly bond. The Monarchy can’t just be dismantled. For one parliament for all intents controls the monarchy. There are far too many legal considerations for such a thing to occur, if it is even possible, again, with legal issues being hundreds of years old.
Thank you.
The monarchy could be very easily dismantled. Just wait till Charles attempts to veto a bill that’s passed the Commons and the Lords, Parliament will shut it down before the ink is dry on his objection.
I don’t think she was in any way dismantling it. Decolonisation was a matter for politicians and populations. What I do think she did well though was to push for a strong Commonwealth – supposedly the issue which created tension with Margaret Thatcher given her unwillingness to pressure Apartheid South Africa, thereby damaging Britain’s relations with many majority black countries.
The Bond segment is definitely one of my all time favorite Olympic ceremony bits.
Wouldn’t that photographer’s presence and reasons to be on premises be known ahead of time, in triplicate?
Nah. People just wander in and out of the palaces all the time. Buckingham, Windsor, certainly Balmoral. The Scots wouldn’t keep out if you told them to. They don’t even need a “VISITOR” badge. That’s why the queen was sensible enough not to store classified documents at home.
Known to every single person who works in the palace?Not to mention that the question “Why are you doing all this?” doesn’t necessarily mean “I have no idea who you are or why they let you in here,” it could mean “Why do you need to do the specific things I’m watching you do?”.
Was that “We Will Rock You” in the Paddington video? I would have gone with “Fat Bottomed Girls.”
Top comments describing a deceased woman pleasuring film actors sexually. It reads like some sick revenge porn. Take that shit over to AnonMe or MyEx.com because it shouldn’t belong here.
No, the top comment describes an actor pleasuring a rich white colonizer when she was still alive. The only people who want to fuck her now that she is dead is all the assholes mourning the old bag now like she’s a saint and not just inbred inherited wealth lottery winner.
Do you really hate this woman so much or do you hate something/someone else? Either way, you’re a hater.
Nothing wrong with hating things as long as those things suck. I hate everything Liz 2 and the British monarchy stand for.