SEAN CONNERY (Thomas Sean Connery, 25/08/30, Edinburgh, Scotland) son of a cleaning woman and a truck driver, Thomas Sean Connery made several works in his youth before joining the world of acting: milkman, a model for painters, coffin polisher, sailor, bodybuilder. Come on 23 years at the fork to continue a career in rugby union or start acting, opted for the latter, despite the promise well prima.Inizialmente took part in several films and TV dramas, and then on the cast of the film relative importance which "O'GILL DARBY AND THE KING OF IMPS" and "Scotland Yard homicide" . Then he was cast as James Bond, the spy created by IAN FLEMING , who took with disappointment the decision to entrust its production to a character actor, he said, "so little refined," because he wanted CARY GRANT: When he saw the first movie ended, the writer changed his mind and publicly appreciated scelta.Il producer "Cubby" BROCCOLI was impressed with the physicality of Connery in a fight scene in the movie "Darby O'Gill" and his wife made him that the actor had much sex appeal, Broccoli and his partner Sean Connery Saltzman called it "a tall, energetic, which moved with the grace of a cat." To interpret James Bond, he had to wear a toupee in every film in the series which took part, because it began to be semicalvo since his youth. After five films in which personified 007, decided to terminate its participation in the adventures of the spy created by Fleming, except to convince himself behind a lautissimo salary to reprise the role in "Diamonds Are Forever" : he decided to abandon Bond, with a "relapse" in 1983 for the remake of "THUNDERBALL " , "NEVER SAY NEVER" . Her favorite movie of the series is "A 007 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE." This equals the record ROGER MOORE , seven each Bond. Tippi Hedren who shared with him the set of "Marne" , Sean called one of his cats, having partner affectionate to the cinema. John Boorman managed to engage him in for his cachet reduced "Zardoz" , because the actor felt like a plan to exit permanently from the "spectrum" of 007. His performance was, however, actor ever to "REFLECTIONS IN A DARK MIRROR" . His best friends were in the Michael Caine and Richard Harris . He always felt very much concerned Scotland's independence from Great Britain, and has always been an avid supporter of the Scottish Party: now lives in Marbella, and declared that more tread the soil of his native land until it is "a free State" . With Kim Basinger there was a particular tune, and the two stars would have liked to return to work together again after "Never say never," and for a while it seemed that the occasion was "Sleeping with the Enemy ", but it did not go porto.Declinò " The Thomas Crown Affair ", only to later admit that he made a mistake in not wanting to act in the film. For "Dressed to Kill" was one step away from signing, but had not accepted the part, for commitments made previously. Also refused to play the part of the "villain" in "DIE HARD DIE-HARD" , because considered too perverted the personaggio.E was forced to give up part then went to Patrick McGoohan in "Braveheart" , because he was producing and interpreting thriller "Just Cause" . He would not take part nor to "JURASSIC PARK" in the role of John Hammond, neither the trilogy "The Lord of RINGS " in the role of Gandalf, why do not you be willing to eighteen months in New Zealand also declined the role of the architect in the two sequels to " MATRIX " . Thus Spake 'CONNERY ....
"More than anything, I'd become an old man with a beautiful face, like Alfred Hitchcock or Picasso."
"I always hated that damn Bond, I would have liked to kill him! "
" It's not that I did not like to do James Bond, as many have said. Interpret a character for so long requires some participation. Except that it is natural to also want to do other things. "
" I never cared for my age until I was visited by a doctor, who told me "He has a great heart for a young person. But she is not so giovane.Ha 40 years. " "
" I am a brain in ghiaccio.Se attore.Non I do my job well, people will not want his money back. "
" I had great progetti.Poi everyone has said that the Bond movies were successes sicuri.Ma simply is not true at all. "
"Maybe I'm not a great actor, but I could not do better than anything else."
"I have always said they are too high, too low, I look too Scottish, Irish seem too, too old!"
"I've always been interested in every film of James Bond.Se too often remains dentro.E a character you still think that every film in the series has some good moments."
"I had never read Tolkien's books, and when they sent me the screenplay "THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING" I did not understand niente.Bobbits? Hobbits? "
" I think PIERCE BROSNAN it was a good scelta.Mi liked "GOLDENEYE" . TIMOTHY DALTON but I was never given the impression that management knew the character: he took it too seriously, first sbagliato.La person who plays Bond has to take something pericoloso.Se not by a sense of tension can not be credible. "
" DANIEL CRAIG has been a great idea, really interessante.Un good actor. It can really be a reboot of the series. "
" The Company of Extraordinary Gentlemen "was a incubo.Non the director should have given all that money to upgrade it!"
"There's a big difference between James Bond and me. He always knows how to cope with the problems!"
"A simple gesture can replace well done in a flash-minute speech. STEVEN SPIELBERG gave me a great gift, turning "INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE" : INSERT nine or ten rows of changing my ideas original screenplay. "