Left: The Motorcycle jump from Tomorrow Never Dies. Right: Vic Armstrong with stuntmen Jean Pierre Goy and Wendy Leech, who performed the stunt.

First of all, everyone at Bondcollection want to thank you for accepting the interview, and we want to thank especially to the Internet which allows a group of Bond fans to contact a very important person in the story of 007 like you. We know that the first film in which you participated was You Only Live Twice. How have you been contacted to appear in the film and what are your memories of the set of Blofeld's volcano lair? It was as enormeous as everyone says?

I was a very young stuntman when I was offered a job on You Only Live Twice by a great friend of mine, Bill Weston, who originally had the job but was busy on 2001 so he sent me along in his place. I was very fit and strong and I was employed to slide down the rope into the volcano from a 125 feet. It was awe inspiring to see the massive volcano set and it covered the whole area that the 007 stage is now built on. Incidentally my father in law George Leech was one of the coordinators that employed me along with Bob Simmons and Dickie Graydon.

Forty years ago On Her Majesty's Secret Service premiered, and you doubled George Lazenby skiing in Switzerland. How risky were those scenes for you and what do you think of the film's popularity after four decades?

Luki Leitner who was a World champion skier did all the fantastic skiing for George Lazenby, I did fights and falling over the precipice at the end of the ski chase. George (Leech) was also coincidently the stunt coordinator.

Left: Pierce Brosnan, a crew member and Vic Armstrong celebrate on the set of Tomorrow Never Dies Right: An action scene of the same film.

In the unofficial film, Never Say Never Again, your wife Wendy Leech, who's also daughter of George Leech, the historic stuntman and co-ordinator of the movies, made an appearance. It was in the set of Never Say Never Again where you met her?

Wendy doubled Kim Basinger and I doubled Sean (Connery) as well as coordinating the show. Wendy and I met on Superman 1.

You were promoted to second unit director in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. How was your relationship with director Roger Spottiswode, and with Pierce Brosnan?

Roger was and is a great friend of mine and I had worked on Air America with him. Pierce is also a great friend and I think he should have done one or two more Bonds because he was really getting into it.

In Tomorrow Never Dies, stuntman Jean Pierre Goy and your wife doubled for Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh motorbike escape scene. The most memorable part was when Jean Pierre jumps with the bike avobe Carver goons' helicopter. Even tough the propellers where CGI, Everybody looked nervious in the footage of that scene. How risky was that scene?

The jump over the helicopter was extremely dangerous and Jean Pierre did a magnificent job. As usual I tried to make everything shot for real, not CG, and that was the result.

Left: Vic Armstrong directs the ski chase scene of The World Is Not Enough. Right: The onscreen result.

Roger Spottiswoode was experienced in action movies, unlike Michael Apted, director of The World Is Not Enough. It was complicated to work with a director who is not experienced in action/adventure films?

Sometimes it is easier to work with directors that do not know action as long as they leave it to me, Michael was wonderful and said he would follow my lead and I think we came up with some great stuff together.

Die Another Day is, up to date, your last Bond film. As a second unit director, What can you say to those who think the action scenes in the film was very unrealistic?

I think that Lee Tamahori came up with a some dreadful scenes on Die Another Day but as director he had the last say. The scene with Pierce (Brosnan) at the end of the car chase was exceptionally bad and I was annoyed because they cut out a lot of fantastic car footage on the frozen lake in Iceland to put in the parachute nonsense.

		Left: Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish is struck by a missle of Zao's Jaguar in Die Another Day. Right: The hovercraft chase in Die Another Day.

What do you think of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and why haven't you worked on that films?

I thought Casino Royale was great film and really kicked ass, but Quantum of Solace was dreadful and nothing like a Bond. I did not work on them because the directors quite rightly wanted their own choice of people.

In your opinion, Marc Forster was a good director? Many of us think that because of his inexperience in thrillers allowed second unit director Dan Bradley to exceed in Jason Bourne like style techniques that not always fit with the Bond style.

I thought the action in Quantum of Solace was awful and far too Jason Bourne the style of which is very confusing with no geography. It was not a Bond I do not think.

Talk us a little about your next projects. Is any of them including Argentina as a location?

I have just finished The Green Hornet which has a great car chase in it and I am just starting Thor. After this I may be doing a film in South America in Brazil but it could end up in Argentina which I would love.