With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his calm, cool demeanor that I find intriguing.
Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
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