Its rooftop pool at the Canary Riverside club was used as the filming location for a Shanghai pool scene in Skyfall, where Bond relaxes before he hunts down the man responsible for stealing a list of agents’ aliases. At the end of The Game, Spike Jonze plays one of the paramedics who helps Nicholas Van Orton after he falls through a hotel’s glass skylight. The Game’s director David Fincher and Jonze are good friends and both got started in filmmaking through the music video industry.

• No, to the naive world of 1998, Alex Reid was known as ‘Waiter 1’, the man in the salmon shirt brushing up next to Gwyneth Paltro in Sliding Doors.
• Virgin Atlantic said it had helped the film’s producers get a plane to Prague where some of the scenes were shot.
• She wanted to be in the film because she was a big fan of Edgar Wright’s previous movie Shaun of the Dead.
• It wasn’t until Barbara Broccoli delivered him a copy of the finished Casino Royale script that Craig changed his mind.

Guillermo del Toro voiced various roles, while Alfonso Cuarón appeared as a helicopter pilot. Along with Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli has led the charge on the Bond franchise as a lead producer since the era of Pierce Brosnan, being instrumental in shaping the direction of these films. In 1987’s The Living Daylights, she appeared as a background actor in the opera sequence.

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In 2006, Branson made a high-profile pledge to invest $3 billion toward addressing global warming over the course of the following decade. However, author and activist Naomi Klein has criticised Branson for contributing “well under $300 million” as of 2014, far below the originally stated goal. Additionally, Klein says Virgin airlines’ greenhouse gas emissions increased considerably in the years following his pledge. In 1972, using money earned from his record store, Branson launched the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell. The name “Virgin” was suggested by one of Branson’s early employees because they were all new at business. Branson bought a country estate north of Oxford in which he installed a residential recording studio, The Manor Studio. He leased studio time to fledgling artists, including multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, whose debut album Tubular Bells was the first release for Virgin Records and became a chart-topping best-seller.

Richard is in Casino Royale k i g, the first James Bond film to feature Daniel Craig as the international super-spy. Back to the film – Richard Casino Royale c a in a cameo role, where he is frisked at Miami airport. His film cameos don’t end there though Richard Branson is in Superman Returns too. Eccentric entrepreneur Richard Branson essentiallypaid for his own cameo in the 2006 pseudo-rebootCasino Royale. Branson, a die-hard fan of the Bond films, got a cameo not only for himself but for his son in Daniel Craig’s 007 debut. Branson played the role of a passenger going through an airport security checkpoint in the film, fitting given that one of Branson’s most well-known endeavors is the founding of Virgin Atlantic airlines.

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Just hit ‘Like’ on our Digital Spy Facebook page and ‘Follow’ on our @digitalspy Instagram and Twitter account. This is a bit of a cheat, as you wouldn’t have noticed Sammy Davis Jr in Diamonds are Forever because his scene was cut. We’re not sure we would have dared to leave a Rat Pack member on the cutting room floor… Butler only gets one line in his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance aboard the doomed HMS Devonshire, but at least he got to use his Scottish accent for a change. Minnie’s subtle acting talents were on full display as she sang ‘Stand By Your Man’ in a hammy Russian accent for her role as the mistress of Robbie Coltrane’s Valentin. From celebrity cameos to first acting breaks, here are some big names you forgot appeared alongside 007 – if you even noticed them in the first place.

• The interview quickly ended, with both laughing as shown on the episode aired on Comedy Central on 22 August 2007.
• Jackson was a big fan of Shaun of the Dead and invited Edgar Wright to New Zealand to hang out on the set of King Kong.
• In 1979 Branson did something that most of us have probably dreamed of at some point… He purchased his own Caribbean island.
• Branson wrote in his autobiography of the decision to start an airline.

1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever” filmed scenes in Apartheid-era South Africa and was the only Bond film to do so. Ace of Base were originally asked to record the theme song to “Golden Eye,” however, after recording a demo, they opted to pull out of the deal in fear the movie would flop, according to MovieFone. Idris Elba has long been rumored to be a contender for the role of Bond, but the actor says he has not been asked. The character James Bond is named after the ornithologist author of “Birds of the West Indies” of the same name. Notable as the first EON Bond film to not open with the standard gunbarrel sequence. The next two film would feature the gunbarrel sequence at the end, leading into the closing credits. Not until Spectre would the gunbarrel opening be featured again.

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It was a gruelling month-long challenge where they hiked, biked and kayaked across Europe and had a near-miss on Mont Blanc when a rockfall rained down on them as they crossed the perilous Gouter Couloir. They raised more than £1m for Holly and Sam Branson’s charity Big Change, which supports young people.