New Sean Connery Interview

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United Airlines has an interview in their Hemispheres magazine with Sir Sean as well as some other interesting stuff:

http://hemispheresmagazine.com/2008_04/007/

urhash

What's amazing is that they were able to get Connery in his present state to answer so many questions about the Bond series LOL

Pendragon

definitely a fun read!

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Loeffelholz

urhash wrote:

What's amazing is that they were able to get Connery in his present state to answer so many questions about the Bond series LOL

Quite right...they really must have caught Sir Sean in a good mood---it's really a nice little interview about Bond.

Also excellent is John Cork's essay on the Bond legacy---I agree with pretty much everything he says, especially the part where he says that Fleming's books ought to be read... B-)

Sir Miles

A great piece, from someone I have lost some respect for !
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highhopes

Loeffelholz wrote:

urhash wrote:

What's amazing is that they were able to get Connery in his present state to answer so many questions about the Bond series LOL

Quite right...they really must have caught Sir Sean in a good mood---it's really a nice little interview about Bond.

Nice interview.

Connery has certainly complained about the role before, but he sometimes betrays a definite fondness for the character. I always thought that if he hated Bond as much as he sometimes claimed to, he'd never do something like land on the David Letterman show with a Thunderball jetpack, for example.

I have to think that his feelings about Bond are sort of like the John, Paul, George and Ringo's feeling about the Beatles: love-hate. It must be hard to be defined forever in the public mind for a single thing. But at the same time, you can't help but be proud to have made such a mark, especially when success was in no way guaranteed.

One thing that I have to say about ol' Sean, as combative as he can be sometimes: he's never had an unkind word (that I've read, anyway) about any of his successors in the role. And he's always been rather modest about his performance as Bond, when he very easily could have taken all the credit for the series' success -- and credibly, too.

Napoleon Plural

highhopes wrote:

And he's always been rather modest about his performance as Bond, when he very easily could have taken all the credit for the series' success -- and credibly, too.

Yes and no! NSNA suggests he can't take too much sole credit. It's clear you need a great producers, great direction, a good script, great stunts, terrific score etc behind you to be arrogant and suave with credibility.

highhopes

Napoleon Plural wrote:

highhopes wrote:

And he's always been rather modest about his performance as Bond, when he very easily could have taken all the credit for the series' success -- and credibly, too.

Yes and no! NSNA suggests he can't take too much sole credit. It's clear you need a great producers, great direction, a good script, great stunts, terrific score etc behind you to be arrogant and suave with credibility.

I beg your pardon, Nape. I manage just fine all by myself.

Seriously -- yes, of course. But actors and their fans often don't realize that films are a group effort. Connery, to his credit, does. That's all I'm saying.

Sir Hillary Bray

I flew back home from Denver last night on United, and so got to read all this in the magazine. The Connery interview was really refreshing -- nice to see him not play the crank for once, and to speak openly about Bond. I love how the one disconcerting thing he found about CR was the lack of the Bond theme until the very end. I know that sentiment is, ahem, music to the ears of many around here.

One humorous side note: on my outbound flight to Denver last Sunday (also on United) the flight attendant announced that "today's in-flight movie will be a James Bond film...The Golden Compass." The mind boggles.

Lazenby880

Sir Hillary Bray wrote:

The Connery interview was really refreshing -- nice to see him not play the crank for once, and to speak openly about Bond.

Absolutely Sir Hillary. I also thoroughly enjoyed John Cork's mini-essay, a nice overview of the books and the films put into context. Between this and Napoleon Plural's piece in Brussels Airlines' magazine, it appears that the some of the best stuff on Bond can be found in in-flight reading material!

Thanks for the link.

Napoleon Plural

Well, we know Bond's views on air hostesses...