If there isn't a sense of threat, you can't be cool. I think the fact that one's hair disappeared early made it easier. I never had a "transition problem". I've always played older. I played Harrison Ford 's father and Dustin Hoffman 's father. And this year, I'm going to be I'm hardly going to get into a weight program and do "Tarzan". I could have the best body sculpting in the world, but I'm never going to be James Bond again. What happened was that I had polyps on my vocal cords for about six years.
I had them lasered off each time. But then I had a little twinge of a problem while I was doing Rising Sun I couldn't get the timbre of my voice right. I couldn't get the variation and enunciation as comfortable as I wanted.
So I went back to the doctor and he suggested radiation. I went for six weeks and didn't have any side effects or problems. Then I made the announcement that I had done radiation treatment. The publicists said not to do it, that it would set off an explosion. But I thought, "If you do radiation and it's a success, why not speak about it? In fact, I'm working on a history book. I just found it getting more and more influential in the movies. I had no grand plan. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.
I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it. It is said that a total ban on handguns, including. Is that more or less pleasure than watching your child grow up?
And my current price? Well, ha, that's nobody's business but mine. It would take something really considerable to bring me back. Nothing has been discussed but I hear it's back on. There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems! I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. I understand if you get caught in a fight, but to take it out on a room that implies some psychiatric disorder. The way I was brought up made me think about the person who has to clean up afterwards.
I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. At times I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again. Dealing with this financial stuff was too much for me. It was back to education and I had to learn to understand it all myself. Peter Mandelson , two times thrown out, is now representing Britain in Europe. In the olden times, they would have hung him up by his feet.
I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic bookkeeping and they're bankrupt. It reads as though one had made great dramatic decisions, but in fact one didn't. I certainly had the drive from the beginning, but the targets and ambitions were much, much less. One of the things that strikes me is that no matter how difficult or underprivileged the situation you were living in as a child, it wasn't considered difficult.
I don't think as children, you are aware of it. You have nothing to compare it to. The cost to me in terms of frustration and avoiding going to jail for murder cannot have continued.
Whenever I've tangled with a beautiful spy, have you noticed what invariably happens? Even if I know the girl is a nasty and dangerous little snake, I've still had to kiss her first and kill her later. I have paid more tax than the government put together in that Parliament. I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America. I have never made any secret of my association, affiliation with the Scottish National Party. I don't like the turn it's taken now when they drag up something, which is something from the past about my violence towards women which I have attempted to answer in so many ways.
It might have been a stupid comment of mine to say to smack a woman or slap a woman, I think I said, and it was picked up much later by an unmentionable in America who really worked a flanker and presented a show as though I had actually admitted that it was okay to punch women. In fact, in the near future there will be some kind of revelation about quite a lot of that anyway, which I'm not going to go into now.
I get asked the question so often, I thought it best to make an announcement. I thought long and hard about it and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film. I love working with Steven [ Steven Spielberg ] and George [ George Lucas ], and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison [ Harrison Ford ] as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun. I, do however, have one bit of advice for Junior: Demand that the critters be digital, the cliffs be low, and for goodness sake keep that whip by your side at all times in case you need to escape from the stunt coordinator!
This is a remarkable cast, and I can only say, "Break a leg, everyone". I'll see you on May 22, , at the theater! I'm too old. Roger's too old, too! A silent gesture can convey more in a flash than a minute of spoken dialogue. Unlike most actors, who resist directors cutting their lines, I have spent my whole career filleting mine. There are few directors who have not seen my cuts as improvements. Steven Spielberg paid me the ultimate compliment on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by adopting nine out of ten of my ideas that traded dialogue for added visual interaction.
Anyone contemplating a film career could do no better than read Alexander Mackendrick 's book "On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director.
From the earliest days of cinema a fascination with Scottish historical themes fed the appetites of Hollywood.
Macabre shockers, or what Robert Louis Stevenson called "regular crawlers", were especially popular. Not counting numerous shorts, five feature versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were produced in Hollywood between and , though none surpassed Fredric March 's Oscar-winning performance and his menacing facial transformation in Rouben Mamoulian 's production of Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves. It's funny, but the film buffs at UCLA are constantly dissecting Marnie these days to see how it was done.
When it was first released, there was a lot of criticism of Alfred Hitchcock because he used a studio set for the dockside scene. But the backdrop looked just like the port of Bristol - if not Baltimore, where it's supposed to be at. I adored and enjoyed Hitchcock tremendously. He never lost his patience or composure on the set. It would appear I'm an inspiration for older men. Do I think I'm sexy? I've been told I am. I know that I find certain people attractive and they find me attractive and are presumptuous enough to think that's sexy.
I can't answer for all those fat guys out there in their sixties. Are they more virile? Well, it's years since I went to bed with a sixtyish balding man. Look, I'm dealing with maturity alright. I'm much more interest in keeping enthusiastic than anything else. The idea of the hair was the iron grew sort of crew cut but something kinda put me off that.
I would have looked sort of like Ernest Hemingway with the beard and short hair and it would have looked American. So I went Rod Stewart but shorter. They had another wig but that made me look like Sting. I really couldn't deal with it. Well, I could deal with it. I changed it. I was going upstairs when I heard my own voice coming from one of the rooms.
My grandchildren were watching Goldfinger So, I sat down with them and watched it for a bit. It was interesting. There was a certain elegance, a certain assurance to it that was quite comforting. There was a leisureliness that made you not want to rush to the next scene. Of course, I also saw things that could have been improved. Timothy Dalton has Shakespearean training but he underestimated the role.
The character has to be graceful and move well and have a certain measure of charm as well as be dangerous. Pierce Brosnan is a good actor - he added some new elements to it.
I've always been told I was either too tall or too short, too Scottish or too Irish, too young, too old. Robin and Marian was supposed to be called "The Death of Robin Hood", but Americans don't like heroes who die or anything that might not smack of being a victory. He said I had the heart of a young man, "but you're not young, you're 40! I enjoy the excitement of working on a well-crewed and exciting picture.
It's like a microcosm of society that really works. Because nothing works anywhere else. Broccoli ] They're not exactly enamoured of each other. Let me straighten you out on this. The problem in interviews of this sort is to get across the fact, without breaking your arse, that one is NOT Bond, that one was functioning reasonably before Bond and that one is going to function reasonably after Bond.
There are a lot of things I did before Bond - like playing the classics on stage - that don't seem to get publicized. So you see, this Bond image is a problem in a way and a bit of a bore, but one has to live with it. I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
On George Lazenby I have known George for many years and arrogance is not in his character. Alas I cannot say the same for Cubby Broccoli. No, I'm only kidding. Read more about the life of the Scotsman who became a global star. He was knighted by the Queen at Holyrood Palace in In August, he celebrated his 90th birthday. Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said they were "devastated by the news" of his death.
They said: "He was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words 'the name's Bond James Bond'. He is undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the film series and we shall be forever grateful to him.
Star Wars director George Lucas, who also created the Indiana Jones character, said Sir Sean "left an indelible mark in cinematic history". With an air of intelligent authority and sly sense of comedic mischief, only someone like Sean Connery could render Indiana Jones immediately into boyish regret or relief through a stern fatherly chiding or rejoiceful hug.
My thoughts are with his family. Sir Sean was a long-time supporter of Scottish independence, saying in interviews in the run-up to the referendum that he might return from his Bahamas home to live in Scotland if it voted to break away from the rest of the UK. Our nation today mourns one of her best loved sons. Sean will be remembered best as James Bond - the classic - but his roles were many and varied.
Sean was a lifelong advocate of an independent Scotland and those of us who share that belief owe him a great debt of gratitude. Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, who was close friends with Sir Sean, described him as "the world's greatest Scot, the last of the real Hollywood stars, the definitive Bond".
He said: "Sean Connery was all of these things but much more. He was also a staunch patriot, a deep thinker and outstanding human being. He added: "'Scotland Forever' wasn't just tattooed on his forearm but was imprinted on his soul.
The film Dr. No showcased the spy contending with the arch-villain title character and his quest to control American launched rockets. Two sequels were released immediately: From Russia With Love and the international blockbuster Goldfinger Thunderball fared even better at the box office, and You Only Live Twice followed.
Sly, sexy and confident with questionable scruples, Connery as Bond was the embodiment of the British secret agent to many even if he did have to wear a toupee to cover his prematurely balding head. We all agreed, he was His acting career now cemented, Connery decided it was time to settle his personal affairs as well. They honeymooned briefly in Spain before the actor returned to the States for a flood of publicity. Connery thrived on the attention and adoration: "Now, I can kill any s.
But Connery had a tendency to go too far in interviews and openly advocated abusive behavior. For example, he told a London newspaper his opinion on hitting women: "An open-handed slap is justified. So is putting your hand over her mouth. The comments came back to haunt him when, in , 10 years after his son Jason was born, he and Cilento divorced amidst a flurry of tabloid rumors that he was physically abusive.
Connery denied them all, and married French-Moroccan artist Micheline Roquebrune in —again at Gibraltar. The pair met in a golf tournament in Morocco, a sport that was a shared passion. He won the men's award; she took the women's. By this time, Connery had made a total of six Bond pictures, but the man who once reveled in notoriety now shrunk from the spotlight. He retreated from Hollywood, moving his wife and her three children from her first marriage into mansions in England and Marbella, Spain.
It would be more than a decade before he reluctantly agreed to reprise his Bond role one last time, in 's Never Say Never Again. Despite the money, Connery was bitter and criticized Broccoli and Saltzman for stifling his talent.
He donated a large portion of his earnings to the Scottish International Education Trust to help students from poor backgrounds like his own. But his critics wondered if he was motivated by generosity or politics: Connery fervently supports Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom, including backing the failed referendum to have the country leave Great Britain, and gave a great deal of his own money to the secessionist Scottish National Party.
For more than two decades, he and Micheline lived in Marbella. Connery's career continued forward with no signs of slowing down. The project co-starred young actress Catherine Zeta-Jones , and controversy was generated by the year age difference between the stars. In , Connery had a starring role in the drama Finding Forrester , followed by 's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , a comic book adaptation in which he depicted fictional explorer Allan Quatermain. Connery was called "the rogue with the brogue," and in , at almost 60 years of age, he was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive.
In Connery released the book Being a Scot , a work which was billed as an exploration of the actor's native country and its ideologies more so than a traditional autobiography. Around this time, Connery revealed that he had fielded an offer to appear in that year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , though he decided it wasn't worth following through with the minor role.
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