These tails and travails of ordinary people who share a name with the famous spy are often fun and funny – but the shifts in tone are uncomfortable
in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when a young woman runs away after being rescued instead of staying to smooch with her saviour; George Lazenby as Bond, taking over the role from a temporarily retired Sean Connery, wryly says: “This never happened to the other fellow.” The reference is apt because the stories recounted here are all about that glamour gap between the heroic exploits of fictional spy 007 and the regular guys who share his name.
Many of the James Bonds met here clearly loathe it when, for the zillionth time, strangers remark that they don’t look like Connery, Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig. Some parents named thembefore Dr No came out in 1962, or if it was out already, they didn’t think the franchise would become that big a deal.
The Other Fellow is released on 19 May in UK cinemas and digital platforms, and is streaming on SBS on Demand in Australia.
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