Once upon a time, Pierce Brosnan ate a rat, and lived to Die Another Day

Ex-suave assassin and superspy James Bond, Pierce Brosnan once ate a rate, mistaking it for beef, and lived to tell the tale.

Actor Pierce Brosnan says he mistakenly ate rat while shooting for a film in Nigeria.

Pierce Brosnan played James Bond in four movies.

The 63-year-old actor says he thought he had been offered beef and was left feeling ill after eating the rodent skin, reported Female First.

“(The worst thing I’ve put in my mouth) is rat. I was in Nigeria making a movie called Mister Johnson and we went into town one night and there were these delicacies on a stick. I thought it was beef, but it was rat skin. I was sick for a week,” Brosnan says

The star confessed that he fancies himself a baker, but hasn’t done any cooking recently.

“I used to bake bread - I was a good baker of soda bread -but I haven’t picked up a pot in a long time.”

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