Sir Richard’s son, Sam, will also appear in the Miami Airport scene, which was actually shot in Prague last May.Īlthough perhaps the most high-profile, this is not the first time Sir Richard has appeared on screen. “Having met Daniel Craig and the rest of the team on set, I have no doubt that Casino Royale will be one of the most successful James Bond films ever.”

“Virgin Atlantic is delighted to be a global partner of the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, and I’m just a little excited to be playing a cameo in the film. The project du jour is Virgin Galactic, which offers commercial space flight tickets from $200,000.“James Bond is original, cool and sophisticated – just like an airline I know,” Sir Richard said.

He loves a cameo - once appearing on Baywatch and, in return for lending the Bond producers a jet, getting a walk-on in Casino Royale. He has other homes on Lake Como and Makepeace Island in Australia, as well as hotels across Africa from the Maasai Mara to the Atlas Mountains - with an enviable vintage car collection in the garages. When he's home on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, he does sport every day and holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to kitesurf across the English Channel.

Of course, he also gets in planes, no great surprise as the founder of Virgin Atlantic, exploring Antarctica with Al Gore and diving with tiger sharks in the Bahamas to draw attention to climate change and conservation issues. A poster boy for risk taking, whether in business or in the skies, he and Swedish adventurer Per Lindstrand became the first people to hot-air balloon across the Atlantic and he's tried four times to circumnavigate the world the latest attempt saw him crash-land in the Sahara and being taken hostage by an Algerian warlord. Powered by 20 cups of English breakfast tea a day (white, no sugar) and the odd whole-nut chocolate bar, the founder of the Virgin Group is not slowing down.

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