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She didnt eat garlic beforeBondscenes with George Lazenby even if she didnt like him.
Rigg kept it no secret that she disliked her experience shootingOn Her Majestys Secret Servicewith George Lazenby.
(It was the onlyBondfilm for both actors.)
No, George, I did not eat garlic on purpose,she wrote.
Lazenby later denied the story in a 1981 interviewwith007magazine.
You know, it was just a joke, he explained.
Remembering Rigg upon her death, Lazenby alluded to the incident.
We were good friends on set, he wroteon Instagram.
Much was made of our supposed differences, but that was the Press looking for a news story.
But the line inspired her to put together the 1982 bookNo Turn Unstoned, compiling actors self-submitted worst reviews.
She later turned the book into a one-woman show for 2014s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
She wrote a stern letter aboutMy Fair Ladystar Lauren Ambrose.
She never watchedGame of Thrones.
I thought, Im going to do it in one take.
She spoke her mind, even around critics.
Upon the news of her death, writers shared their own stories of meeting Rigg.
Im looking for the chemist, she told me.
I believe his name is … Duane?
(Well guess she meant a Duane Reade pharmacy.)
Vultures Mark Harris shared his own storyon Twitter.
2 years ago I sat next to Diana Rigg at a Tonys party.
She was in My Fair Ladyat 80, he wrote.
She told me it was a great role because she could get tons of reading done btw scenes.
2 years ago I sat next to Diana Rigg at a Tonys party.
She was in My Fair Lady–at 80.
She told me it was a great role because she could get tons of reading done btw scenes.
RIP to a great.
