He really was a bucket of laughs on set

KRISTINA WAYBORN: Octopussy (Miss Magda) 1983

ROGER always loved a good joke but there is a particular one that will always stay with me. We were filming a love scene on the set at Pinewood Studios, when he got out of bed, walked past the crew and closed a door behind him. Then we all heard a sound like an elephant urinating. On and on it went. Finally, he came back in, adjusted his trousers, and said: ‘Ah, I feel much better now.’ In fact, he’d found a bucket of water outside the door and poured it into an empty bucket, making it sound like he was having the longest pee in history. Everyone fell about laughing. On another occasion, we were on location in Udaipur, India. We were always very careful not to drink the water in India. But one night I wasn’t thinking and began brushing my teeth with tap water. Suddenly, I remembered and started screaming. Roger’s hotel room was beneath mine and the walls were quite thin so he figured out what had happened. He came running up to my room with a bottle of Jack Daniels, saying: ‘Take a swig, gargle and swallow.’ He said it worked for him!

Roger was surrounded by beautiful women while filming Octopussy but he was the perfect gentleman throughout. What a beautiful man, so drop-dead gorgeous.