12. Diamonds Are Forever
To get Sean Connery back for the seventh Bond Film, the studio offered him $1.25-million. He agreed to play Bond again, this time masquerading as a diamond smuggler in order to catch Blofeld. Diamonds Are Forever filmed in Las Vegas. Connery would sometimes wander off to play slots between shots. One day he was late to set, collecting his winnings. “The first week I didn’t get any sleep at all,” Connery told the Montreal Gazette. “We shot every night, I caught all the shows and played golf all day. On the weekend I collapsed – boy, did I collapse. Like a skull with legs.”