Re: Most Handsome Bond?
sunny01 wrote:Not true...it is quite well know that Ian Fleming was not originally keen on the choice of Sean Connery as James Bond. I believe he was considered a bit rough around the edges!
At first, yes but then, after seeing his portrayal Fleming liked him so well he added the Scottish background.
Actually, that's a popular myth based on a cause and effect assumption, which has since been accepted at face value and perpetuated by journalists, books and documentaries. In Charles Helfenstein's excellent, "The Making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service," there's documentation from Fleming's original notes and early manuscripts for the novel about how his interest in giving Bond a Scottish ancestry predated EON's selection of Connery for the role of Bond. Of course, we also know that Fleming himself was a Scot.