In my review of Skyfall last month, I shared an anecdote about my first exposure to a James Bond movie. If I may be presumptuous enough to quote myself:

“My earliest memory of going to the movies is my mother taking me to see Moonraker in 1979. I was 13 years old, and the most memorable character for me was the giant assassin with metallic teeth played by Richard Kiel. ‘His name’s Jaws. He kills people,’ Roger Moore’s Bond drolly explains.”

So imagine my surprise when I read the following in Entertainment Weekly:

“The first James Bond film that Javier Bardem ever saw was was 1979’s Moonraker, in Madrid, when he was 12. And when the young Spaniard walked out of the theater, he realized that he wasn’t drawn to Roger Moore’s debonair 007 but rather to the film’s villain Jaws. ‘There was something very scary about him,’ says Bardem, 43. ‘But he also made me feel like he was such a nice man. You could tell in his eyes.'”

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