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When  Sean Connery had left the James Bond series Eon films started to look for a new actor to portray the role of James Bond.  After many auditions they found and went with a total unknown.  A  29 yr old Austrian  car salesman who had become an English model, George Lazenby. The press constantly compared him to Connery.  Before the public got a chance to judge Lazenby for themselves the British press portrays him as a trouble maker on the set and feuding with his co-stars. 

The press wanted someone to shoot down. Unbeknownst to Lazenby and everyone else; no one was prepared when Lazenby’s advisor makes an announcement to the press that Lazenby wasn’t going to do another Bond picture. When the producer’s were questioned about this they said; it was the first that they had heard of it and so they let Lazenby go. Lazenby didn’t feel that James Bond was going to go on anymore with movies like Easy Rider and changes going on in the culture. He figured this short haired character in a suit isn’t going to make it. When the film was release it set several box office records.