• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      Christopher Lee was some sort of agent as well. However, joining the Sith, becoming an vampire, and cutting down the forests of Isengard are kinda dick moves.

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          1 hour ago

          He’s a vampire wizard, of course he was that old.

          But jokes aside, yes. Old enough he witnessed the last public execution by guillotine in France, met Tolkien personally, and while his tales may have grown a bit, he’s one of the inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. He famously told Peter Jackson people don’t scream when they get stabbed in the back, they just go “uh”. Also performed heavy metal. He’s genuinely pretty badass.

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            That’s so cool, I never knew that much about him but that really explains his demeanor and facial expressions. No wonder they look so genuine.