Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
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.
James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
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