Connery on Craig before CR was released

Red Indian

Takes one to know one!

Sir Sean really seems to have come a long way from all of the negativity that was thrown at him from the "press."

Hope this is new to some of you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CR4qLwx8aU

Le Samourai

Thank you for posting that. I especially like Connery's line about people "looking for failure." Too true!

Blackleiter

Connery nailed hen he said the key to playing Bond is to make it look as easy and cool as possible, and still maintain the danger. To me he does that better than any of the other Bond actors, and that's why he remains my favorite.

BIG TAM

Blackleiter wrote:

Connery nailed hen he said the key to playing Bond is to make it look as easy and cool as possible, and still maintain the danger. To me he does that better than any of the other Bond actors, and that's why he remains my favorite.

I agree. Connery balanced the wit & danger brilliantly, but he was aided in this by a group of film-makers who approached the material in the same way. Once the Bonds had become defined as their own sub-genre (certainly by 1971) it appeared to influence everyone involved with a self-referencing knowing approach which made it difficult to maintain that balance. Perhaps it was inevitable that a feeling of self-parody was allowed to dominate things for a time.

Thunderpussy

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