Throughout her lifetime, Queen Elizabeth II, who died final Thursday on the age of 96, has had a continuing affiliation with the world of sport.
Part of the spotlight of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony was a James Bond sketch written by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. The director of Slumdog Millionaire included a component that includes the queen’s double with the then 007, Daniel Craig. A sequence that started from Buckingham Palace to the Olympic Stadium.
And so when the producers needed to search out out what the Queen would put on for her double, they had been shocked by her dresser, who mentioned that the Queen additionally needed to be within the video.
Speaking to BBC Radio on Friday, Frank Cottrell-Boyce – the creator of the Olympic ceremony – narrated the complete incident.
“The Queen’s dresser asked, ‘Why are you doing all this?’ And we told her, ‘So we can make it like a queen.’ So she said: ‘Oh, the Queen wants to do this,’ she explained. “She ready herself for it, she needed to be within the sketch.”
Cottrell-Boyce additional said that it was the Queen who insisted that she had a talking half, one thing she had not written earlier than.
“The day we were filming, he said to Danny Boyle, ‘I think I should have a line,'” he recalled. “She achieved that. There were no lines in her script.”
And so it occurred. As proven in a video of over 60 million views by the Olympic YouTube channel, when Craig arrives on the palace in a pre-shot scene earlier than the ceremony in London, the Queen greets him, “Good evening, Mr Bond “
The two are then proven exiting the palace, boarding a helicopter and parachute for the opening ceremony venue with the 007 theme music within the background.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
