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Three injured on Austrian set of Bond movie

Three crew members are reported to have been injured in an accident on the Austrian set for the latest James Bond film, Spectre, on Tuesday.

Three injured on Austrian set of Bond movie
Daniel Craig on the Spectre set. Photo: APA/Gindl

According to the Hollywood Reporter one of the injured men is second-unit director Terry Madden, who suffered multiple fractures.

During the filming of a stunt scene in Sölden, Austria, a car veered off the road and crashed into a camera platform.

The Austrian Press Agency reports that one British man was caught between the car and the platform and seriously injured, and two other crew members where thrown off the platform.

One also suffered serious injuries and the third man escaped with only minor injuries. Two of the men were airlifted to hospital and the third was treated by medics at the scene.

Police say that the three men, aged 28, 52 and 63 are all British, as is the man who was driving the car and lost control of the vehicle.

This is the second accident to hit Spectre. Last week James Bond star Daniel Craig injured his knee while shooting a fight scene at Pinewood Studios in London. 

Filming for the 24th James Bond film is taking place in various parts of Europe including Austria, London and Rome.

Associate producer Gregg Wilson has promised that Austria would be the site of “one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak”.

Spectre is directed by Sam Mendes and opens in the UK on October 23rd and worldwide two weeks later.

It also stars double Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as the villain, Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris and Dave Bautista.

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Germans are Nazis, bad guys, crazies: Bond actor

As stars gather in London for the premiere of 24th James Bond film Spectre, meet the sidekick who'll be rounding out the German bad-guy duo alongside Christoph Waltz.

Germans are Nazis, bad guys, crazies: Bond actor
Detlef Bothe is only allowed to say that he'll play "a killer" opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond in Spectre. Photo: DPA

Detlef Bothe is known in the German film scene as a multi-talented renaissance man, with credits to his name as a director, writer and producer as well as an extensive filmography as an actor.

But for James Bond's latest adventure, producers hunted him out “because I'm good at embodying [the bad guy],” he believes.

“This type of hard-as-nails guy, that's always coming back up,” Bothe explains of his career.

“I can play him well. You just have to know how it works.”

For Bothe, there are three aspects to playing a great antagonist: movements, attitude and non-verbal communication.

“Everyone has aggression and viciousness in them,” he explains. “You just have to open yourself to it and translate it into something visible.

“As an actor, you work on these sides. Then in the best case, they're available to you in a nuanced way and I can bring them out whenever I need them.”

Bothe's precise role in Spectre remains a mystery, and he's bound by a strict secrecy agreement that holds until the movie's release.

“There was an eight-page form that I had to sign. A whole page deals with the consequences if you go ahead and say something.

“Everything is very secret, very top-notch PR work. The English are really good at that,” he said.

But he'll appear in some of the scenes shot in Austria, likely as an underling to main villain Christoph Waltz.

Christoph Waltz (l) with co-star Lea Seydoux in a scene from Spectre. Photo: Sony/DPA

The two join a storied history of German James Bond bad guys including Gert Fröbe, the face of Goldfinger opposite Sean Connery in 1964, and Curd Jürgens, Roger Moore's nemesis in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.

Secondary German villains have included Götz Otto, the German torturer henchman who faced off against Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997.

All Bothe would say about his role is that he'll be appearing as “an iceman, a killer.”

“You'll have to ask the English why that is,” Bothe reflects. “We Germans are the Nazis, the bad guys, the crazies.”

Spectre is released in Germany on November 5th.

SEE ALSO: Christoph Waltz is Bond nemesis in 'Spectre'

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