If Queen Elizabeth ever tires of the throne, she has a future in
acting. Filmmaker Danny Boyle, who directed an inspired and beautifully
surreal opening ceremony for the XXX Olympiad in London, told NBC's
Meredith Vieira that the Royal was "a good actor" for her pre-recorded
segment with current James Bond Daniel Craig.
"She
was very gracious in giving us access," Boyle told Vieira when she
asked him how he managed to get the Queen to participate in what is
proving to be the most talked-about portion of his Isles of Wonder
production. "She's very sharp," Boyle told Vieira. "You didn't have to
tell her anything twice." Boyle alsonoted that "Her and James Bond got
along very well" and that Craig — who collected the queen for a
helicopter ride that resulted in the duo's stunt doubles parachuting
into Olympic Stadium — gave an extremely nuanced glance as Elizabeth
passed him in one scene that registered the momentous melding of fact
and fiction. "Sleight, surreal, eccentricity. That's what we're good at,
really," Boyle told Vieira of his movie-making imprint on the London
games. We have to agree.
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