Sean Connery's influenced by reading a certain book?Please help!

sailorsaturn

Hey Bond fanatics question here.

I remember reading somewhere ( pretty sure it was in askmen.com ) where there was an article on Sean Connery's inspirations/influences on acting. I dont know the name of the book, or author , but i remember that it was something about body image/elocution/presence/mannerisms/proper- in short. the type of book that described how to properly carry oneself.

Does anyone know what im talking about ?

j.blades

i've never heard of this but if this is true i also would like to know.

Barbel

An actor named Robert Henderson advised the young Connery to read Stanislavski's autobiography My Life In Art, containing sections on method acting which he studied intensely.

sailorsaturn

GUYS thanks for the responses, in a moment of clarity i remembered, it wasnt in askmen.com but GQ...

the following little profile on Sean goes as follows :
-"Sean Connery

All the actors who’ve inhabited the role of James Bond have enjoyed the trappings of style—killing bad guys in Savile Row bespoke—but only one of them can truly be said to have style. (And no, we’re not talking about George Lazenby.) Sean Connery is still the yardstick by which all other Bonds are measured—the arched eyebrow, the dry wolfish smile. But we at GQ think it mostly has to do with the way he moved. It only looked effortless: Before he was cast in Dr. No, Connery was an ardent student of the Swedish movement teacher Yat Malmgren, whose book on body technique became Connery’s bible. That’s how the former bricklayer from a hardscrabble section of Edinburgh learned to walk with (in one observer’s memorable phrase) “the threatening grace of a panther on the prowl.” Read it as a gloss on his penchant for violence or his sexual prowess: It works both ways.

osris

Apparently, Yat Malmgren also taught Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan—yet these two actors haven’t the same gracefulness as Connery.

mgold

Does anyone know what the book's title is? Where can you find it? I see books that are written about Yat Malmgren and his techniques, but not a book written by him. I assume it has been out-of-print for awhile, and probably hard to find.

zig zag

Hmmm, would'nt mind a look at that aswell. Sounds interesting.