I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.
Y’all… Christopher Lee was literally James Bond. He and Ian Fleming were cousins, he was one of the real life sources of inspiration for James Bond, and was Fleming’s first choice to play Bond in the movies.
Saying that he was in the secret service doesn’t do it justice. His unit was informally referred to as “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and his service records are still sealed.
When an interviewer asked him about his service, he asked “Can you keep a secret?” the interviewer of course said yes, so he leaned in, lowered his voice, and said “So can I.”
He also performed for a metal album in his 80′s.
Christopher Lee was one of the most awesome humans ever to walk the Earth.
@dovewithscales wasn’t Christopher Lee also like one of the only LotR cast members who met Tolkien? At least I think there was something about him and Tolkien that I can’t remember exactly…
That is correct.
Mr lee was one of the people that made me want to get into acting.
Ian McKellan said the same thing. He said he was nervous filming LotR to meet Lee because he was his idol.
I miss him
I think there was more than one metal album.
And something about parachutes in WWII.
And playing Dracula onscreen more than any other actor. And the fact that the guy legit traced his ancestry straight back to Charlemagne.
Sir Christopher Lee was a fucking boss.