Actor played an assassin in Sean Connery’s sixth Bond adventure.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you prepare for the role of Mr. Wint?
BRUCE GLOVER:I was very careful how I was going to do this role.
Bruce Glover and Sean Connery in Diamonds are Forever.Credit: Everett Collection
Guy Hamilton said, “Is there anything I can do for you, Bruce?”
I didn’t want to be thinking ahead of how to do [the character].
I am really a very talented actor and I think differently from most actors.
Now here’s a gift that sometimes happens.
Another actor can be so lucky for you that it provides you with so much.
I looked at Putter Smith and he was happy and walking around.
He didn’t know how hard acting was.
I had already done a hundred plays and about thirty films and television shows already.
He is like a giant toy.
He’s my toy.
And that was the relationship all the way through the film.
It wasn’t sex.
It was, he’s my toy.
What was the dynamic like between the two of you?
Putter was just great, because he was real.
Great directors bring on people who have never acted before because they have a reality.
If you’re free to get them to just be real, they’re terrific.
He was a fantastic gift to the film because of the simple reality of who he was.
He had no idea.
We told him and he went, “Huh?”
[Laughs]
You had to handle a scorpion in the film.
What was that like?
I went, oh my god, I don’t want to be touching a scorpion.
And that was the second event.
I have a scorpion!
I’m the only one with a scorpion!
I have a trick that nobody else has!
He’s my toy and I’ve got a trick!
That was the character.
And an hour later, I was on the set and I was terrific.
[Laughs]
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