Sir Roger Moore became rich and internationally famous playing super spy James Bond who always had his signature Walther PPK gun at the ready for hunting down Carribbean drug lords and evil industrialists.

But the English actor, who died this week at age 89, was literally just doing his job in pretending that he appreciated the German-made weapon’s craftsmanship or its lethality.

In real life, Moore hated guns, especially the way society glorified men who wielded them, according to the Huffington Post.

Moore, who starred in seven Bond films from 1973 to 1985, always appreciated playing 007. However, he told Reuters in 2008, he came to abhor the way the character and the films had become increasingly violent.

“I am happy to have done it, but I’m sad that it has turned so violent,” he said.

In another interview with BBC, Moore said he had a general concern with the way society depicts heroes with guns in their hands. “To tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent,” he said.

In his memoir, “My Word Is My Bond,” Moore explained that his feelings about firearms originated in childhood.

He said a gun once “blew up in my hands,which deafened me for a few days.” Then, as a teenager, a friend shot him in the leg with a BB gun.

In any scene with Bond firing his Walther pistol, Moore had to “clench” his eyes as he squeezed the trigger.

Moreover, he always liked playing Bond tongue-in-cheek and came to bristle at efforts to emphasize the spy’s more violent tendencies.

When filming 1974’s “The Man With the Golden Gun,” Moore tried to get director Guy Hamilton to go along with a hero who wasn’t always eager to spring into fight mode.

“That sort of characterization didn’t sit well with me,” Moore wrote in his book. “I suggested my Bond would have charmed the information out of her by bedding her first. My Bond was a lover and a giggler, but I went along with Guy.”

By the time he sat down to watch his final Bond film, 1985’s “A View to a Kill,” Moore found himself disgusted by the level of violence.

“That wasn’t Bond,” he later told Reuters.

Later in his life, Moore became “completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children.”

As it happens, the choice by Bond creator Ian Fleming to equip his hero with the Walther PPK, starting with “Dr. No,” is said to have directly influenced the handgun’s popularity. The manufacturer describes the gun as “a statement of sophistication” and says it’s “elegant lines and precision” have had a defining influence on the design of concealed carry firearms.

Moore wasn’t fond of the model’s elegant lines or sophistication. He came to have a hard time looking at photos of himself posing with a Walther or any other firearm.

Simply put, he said. “I don’t like guns.”