I was Lucky enough to have met Sean years ago when I was playing at an event in a pipe Band, he was so friendly and charming, he is a stunning looking man in person, oozes magnetism, had a great conversation with , I will treasure , so glad I got to meet the man, I have met many famous people doing what I do but Sean stuck out for me. R.I.P.
It's fascinating how so many of the finest actors can appear so cool, calm and collected onscreen and yet off it, you can clearly see that they suffer with anxiety. Sean came across very well here: smart and very grounded.
Connery is NOT suffering anxiety of character in this interview. The anxiety is in Bailey's humourless demeanour that stifles Connery's possibility to "bubble". Watch any other interview with Connery and you will see what I mean.
@@BackSeatHump I have seen numerous Sean Connery interviews and acceptance speeches: the same signs are almost always there (to varying degrees): shortness of breath, forced smiles, licking/biting of the lips, awkward facial expressions, guarded, irritable and with a general air of discomfort. Individually these might not mean anything, but when you add them together I think that it's pretty clear. He's a lot like Harrison Ford, Sean Bean and Kevin Costner in this respect. The only time that he's appeared relaxed in an interview -- at least to me -- was the one where he appeared to be at a golf club, a place that was known to bring him solace.
@@dangiambrone7350 Well, celebrities are filmed in unusual, emotional situations. It seems to be a revelation to you that they'd feel slightly unsure or reluctant doing personal interviews or giving important acceptance speeches. I'd say it's normal and integral to connecting with others.
He appears pity relaxed to me , you have to remember that this isn’t a normal conversation he has to watch what he says and be restrained I mean he can’t throw in a few F bombs here and there , his true personality is restrained and he’s been interviewed where he has to speak while been filmed with a camera Crewe he’s also Scottish most like from Presbyterian heritage of a certain generation who were brought up to be very reserved!
This was mid 1967, when You Only Live twice was released , so he must have been 36 . He looked way, way older than 36. The good thing is that he looked like that until he was 70 or so.
Connery made six Bond films. The fifth was "You only live twice". The sixth was "Diamonds are forever". Look it up on Wikipedia. He made another in 1983.
Beginning with Goldfinger he wore a toupe. That's why he looks so different. He was contracted for five films and decided he was done after those five. But for Diamonds Are Forever they offered him enough money he decided to do it again, and you can tell by his acting performance he was just there to pick up a paycheck.
I loved this. You only live twice was my first cinema Bond its amazing to hear Sean talking as himself at this time. He's a much more complex and considered man at this stage in his career than most people thought. The success of his Bond is responsible for the opportunitys it gave to all the others. For giving the "brand" its personality we all owe him a great debt of gratitude. Thanks Sean.
Fascinating. It's perceived that Sean didn't like interviews; this proves he's natural, down to earth and articulate. I believe this is from 'Good Company ' presented by attorney F. Lee Bailey .
I agree with you about Sean. I have seen so many videos over the last 12 months and one at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony from 2006 Sean gives his speech which contained eloquence, whit and humour and he also says which i think to me is very important is 'i learnt to read when i was 5' so he was well read When Sean 'got the job' of playing a character called James Bond he had met Diane and she took him to her movement coach Yat Malmgren a Swedish Dance Teacher who ran the Drama Centre in North London as was and he said to Sean think of Cat Animals like Lions, Tigers and Panthers. Sean moved like a panther Why were the first 5 films such a WOW with the world Cinema audience back in 1962 with Dr No and You Only Live Twice 5 years later? I put what was termed 'BONDMANIA' down to the following reasons The first half of the 1950's was DRAB and Britain was still in the throngs of rationing. and even by the late 50's TV, Theatre, and films were black and white and the stories in films were mirroring in many ways the lives of the general public. What was called 'kitchen sink stuff'. My late parents who were in their mid 30's were living their HUM DRUM lives and they were never fortunate to own a TV so the Cinema was their main source of entertainment. When Dr No came along they were shown, FAR OFF EXOTIC places, fast cars, beautiful women, champagne, casino's and someone who was licenced to kill and indulge his pleasures. It is sad he suffered for a number of years with Dementia and not able to communicate and the other ailments he had as well. I know that around 2006 Hunter Davies went out to Nassau to discuss with Sean a book deal which Sean had received an advance for but it never got off the ground and Sean gave the advance back. There is nothing 'out there' to say why it did not appear but Sean was having some health issues that year and had to have a tumour removed from his kidney. I wonder what he would think of the world today?
Of course, Sean Connery was the quintessential James Bond. I was sad when he decided to leave the franchise, but it was the best thing he could have ever done for himself. Had he stayed, he would have surely staled in the role. By leaving, he became a legend.
Sure, I can see Connery playing Bond until Golden Gun. Both Live and Let Die and Golden Gun were similar in tone to Diamonds, really. The series changed for good in 1977 with the Spy who Loved me. But the same is true for Diamonds are Forever compared to 60s movies; I can see Moore in it, but not in Dr. No, From Russia with Love...As for Dalton, I think he would have been superb in From your Eyes only already. I wish he would have done all the 80s Bonds. Such a great actor.
I agree that OHMSS would have been better with Connery,but in fairness you have to admit George Lazenby did a pretty good job considering his lack of acting experience.
He's 37 here, and looks 37 -- if you're losing your hair in your late 30s. He's literally the best-looking guy I (and you) have ever seen, so cut him some slack! lol. And a fine actor, and very intelligent, to boot -- and came out of serious poverty, too. Actually, his one directing credit is terrific -- a doc on labor and management in Scotland. Interestingly lefty. Made around this time, too, I believe. It's not on RUclips, but it's online somewhere, or was.
This is filmed between June 67 and Sept 67. Interviewer referred to the gyro helicopter in YOLT and that was premiered in June 67. In previous interview Connery refers to begin filming Shalako in the November. Connery was only to return one final time in the Eon series 4 years later in 71 with DAF, released in 72. His overall body of work easily eclipsed his time as Bond. In almost every interview through the decades he always mentioned FRWL as his favourite Bond. The Man Who Would Be King remained his favourite film. The Hill: The Offence: The Man Who Would Be King: The Name Of The Rose: The Untouchables: Last Crusade: The Rock. Sean Connery certainly left us a legacy to be proud of and endlessly enjoy.
For me, this is the best Sean Connery interview available on RUclips. The complete interview, featuring Connery’s first wife, was available but I haven’t seen it here in awhile.
I respect his decision; unlike Clint Eastwood, who saw the Harry sequels as a means to make mainstream money, Sean didn't really like mainstream cinema, at least during the '60s and '70s; but he could have played the role of James Bond from 1962 to 1983, each movie being a hit, I'm sure of it, and reducing or erasing completely the camp and comedy of the Moore era
during the making of "you only live twice" Connery was utterly fed up of the international media circus hounding him and totally pissed off with producer Cubby Broccolli whom he felt totally stiffed him on his contract and his salary for playing Bond, in today's money taking inflation into account the franchise earned billions with Connery in the role and he always felt he was not rewarded properly for his contribution as Bond. He also hated wearing a toupe, or the "Bond Hat" as he called it, and made no secret of his lack of hair while he was off camera, while filming on location in Japan for You Only Live Twice Connery one day showed his total distain for the production by ripping off his toupe at the end of the days location filming and throwing it like a frisbee towards the make up person, this was in front of the worlds press and hundreds of onlookers who were spectating the days filming...he just couldn't care less, that is a true story and that is just the tip of the iceberg. After the release of Diamond Are Forever Connery got a memo from the producers requesting him to wear the toupe for the world promotional tour and public appearances and chat shows etc, Connery sent a written reply back to the Producers that consisted of two words.....Fuck Off.
I have always enjoyed Sean Connery movies my personal favorite is Woman of Staw, Marine as all the James Bond 007 with him as Bond. There will never be another Bond actor for me.
If I were to rank to Sean Connery bonds films from russia with love would be my favourite then Goldfinger then you only live twice then diamonds then I would put thunderball at the bottom because apart from one of the Bond girls being a villain I can’t think of anything else in thunderball that is actually good. Oh and Sean Connery forgot to say that
Hard to tell much difference between Sean Connery and the James Bond he portrayed on the screen. Connery is a little more loose and laid back while his James Bond is more intense, other than that it's like the same person lol He brought a lot of himself to the role and he James Bond the character didn't make him , he made the character
From humble background in Edinburgh to one of the best actors his heart was always in Scotland. Unfortunately the English establishment deliberately didn’t really advertise how much he give to charities e.g. his £1m fee for making Diamonds are forever went to the Scottish international education trust. He was also the best Bond!
There wasn't some plot by the 'English establishment' to hide Connery's charitable donations. His heart was in Scotland, his body preferred the south of France, Marbella in Spain, and the Bahamas, the latter conveniently tax free.
I appreciate Sean Connery in all of his roles, not just as Bond. I love the 'thumb beatdown' in The Presidio and his work in Hunt for Red October and others. A true legend!
An excellent interview. Thank you for posting it. This interview really gives you a sense of Connery as a man and what he brought to the Bond character. Very interesting insights.
Very interesting interview. He's really articulate and honest. Very refreshing compared with today's idiotic stars who need to curse every two seconds or have such limited vocabularies.
Tell me, which "idiotic stars " are you referring to? Connery isn't exactly going to go on a formal television interview saying "fuck" and "cunt" is he, but you can guarantee he swears in his everyday life. Swearing is not, and has never been a problem. it's knowing WHEN to swear and when not to. To return to my original point, can you link to any clips of a similar formal interview with today's stars swearing "every two seconds" as you stated?
Its funny people used to say you can't say Sean Connery without thinking James Bond. For me Sean Connery is a lot more, he's Indiana Jones's father, The Cop who helped Elliot Ness, The SAS operative from The Rock.... but when you say James Bond I associate him with Connery.
It wasn't until he won that Oscar for the Untouchables is when he got better roles . You forgot Rising Sun which the novelist and screenplay was written with him in mind ( and the ones you mentioned) , he did mess up some in his final years and passed up Lords of the Rings and so glad he passed Star Trek 5 , yeah he will always be James Bond since he was the first .He looked better in his real old age I think .
Blaine Savini he was not he played John Patrick Mason who was a British intelligence officer before got arrested but his character was a nod to James Bond not actually James Bond
Some people talk about how old Connery looked, when he was just 37. But geez what about interviewer F. Lee Bailey!? Bailey is 34 and looks 50! Connery aged like fine wine though, he looked fantastic 30+ years later in "Entrapment" (1999).
I concur and second that notion. Had he been born, say in the eighties, he had now to get in line and be: WOKE, PC, libtard, feminist soy-boy and be forced to wear knickers. I feel sorry for all young boys and men out there, who doesn´t get to be what they want to be and have to apologize for talking to females...
Solid questions on part of the interviewer. I know he was famous too Im just forgetting his name now? Im 'Only' 47 here in 2023. Always liked the Bond films from very young age. I got introduced to them through Roger Moore firstly, but then over time got to see the Connery films, then forward, so on. Great Franchise.
I love how he is being so real,about the industry and how sucked in e.g.the interviewer is in constantly portraying the fantasy aspect of the entertainment business.Take 2 the 2nd half utterly brilliant authentic intelligent man Sir Thomas Connery that comes through with this.Best interview I've seen.
Fascinating Interview, very candid, personality my favourite non bond. film of Connerys was The Offence, very very powerful film which was as far away from bond as it was possible to get.
When I first saw OHMSS, I had read the book several times and it is part of a 3 book trilogy Thunderball, OHMSS and You Only live Twice I thought OHMSS was the best bond book, so to see no Sean Connery was at first a shock and I didn’t like it, but admired how the script was kept so closely to the book which is brilliant something I didn’t think would have happened if Connery was still bond. Over time and reading the bond books again and again I have come to appreciate George lazenby as bond, bond is a uninteresting, cold, inhumane killer for the government and I have come to see how lazenby inexperience made him the bond of the books. The bond in the books is a lot different to how he was played by Connery or more, dalton tried to bring the dark side of bond to the screen but they say the time wasn’t right for that sort of portrayal which was a shame, Craig casino royal was one of the best portraits of bond as the book character, remember bond is a taker of drugs drinks to excess and smokes to excess Craig missed the smoking parts but his was spot on with the rest. So I would put lazenby, dalton and Craig as the best portrayals of such a misunderstood book character. Thanks for reading.
Sean Connery was so articulate that he was able to describe the James Bond character with just 5 words when he said the character is “cool, suave, sophisticated, with humor.” Yes, that is the essence of Bond, and in this interview can you see all the same qualities in Connery? This answers the question “did James Bond create Sean Connery or did Sean Connery create James Bond?” I believe Sean Connery WAS James Bond BECAUSE of who he already was as a person. The character just happened to fit him like a tailor-made suit.
A fine man as any he was. I was taken aback about how reflective and articulate he was, not even with a thick Scottish accent. He looked through the artifice of his James Bond role, yes, a kind of Frankenstein, as he put it. Nice try at German pronunciation, besides...
I love Sir Sean's honesty here.. Just think of the time and how famous he was then.. (of course, still is) This was at the total height of the original Bondmania.. He had the world at his feet and millions at stake but on principal, said 'screw this' and walked because he didn't see that his cut was fair of the deal.. He could have smiled and said, fair enough, I will carry on rolling with 007 but he knew that he would just be going through the rote performance and wouldn't be doing anything new or groundbreaking.. Certainly not rewarding for him.. I agree with previous comments though.. His last film with EON should have been OHMSS.. Yet.. I loved Lazenby in that performance.. An incredible interview.. A real coup..
His comments on Charlie Chaplin - who was still making films when this interview was done - are fascinating. Love how he is mocking Bailey throughout this interview.
What a lovely chap!His principles are fresh,most actors would have played the game and kept pumping the films out. Witthout Sean,007 would have been one and done.He was part of the 'great 60s triad',JFK,The Beatles &Sean Connery.
Edward Feltch Remember the comment James Bond made in 'Goldfinger'...."Drinking Dom Perignom higher than a certain temperature, was like listening to the Beatles without ear muffs"...Lol!
I told people years ago before he stop doing bond that he was great actor I prove my point Zardoz. Connery will always be the James Bond. One of the reasons he won the role of James Bond what's the cause the producers like the way he walked and moved. Always thought he was just so cool.
1:36 this is not just true for Connery but for anyone who has ever been involved with the Bond series. The Bond films will be by far the most popular films in their career. So I don't think it says that much about Connery that his non-Bond films weren't as succesful at the box office. Of course this is very easy to say in hindsight.
Connery realized at this time that the character of James Bond will always be Sean Connery in disguise and not himself. He IS James Bond and no other. That is what he means oh his analogy of Frankenstein.
So different than his Bond personna. Astounding. Bond is suave, well spoken, very confident and macho and projects certain traits. Sean Connery on the other hand seems so different here. Except the Suave part.
I am a life-long Sir Sean Connery fan starting from his 007 in the 1960's. This was so cool to watch- I love his favorite Bond is From Russia with Love which many acknowledge as the best pure 'spy' film of the first 5.
@ENOCH WAS RIGHT i have to disagree. Everyone has their favorite Bond but the only one that maybe comes close to Sean Connery is Pierce Brosnan. To me Roger Moore was never cut for this role. His fighting scenes were almost ridiculous. Thats my opinion of course. May God rest their souls.
@ENOCH WAS RIGHT Moore came nowhere near Connery in the role of Bond. I agree with Stelios C that Moore was never cut for the role. Moore's performances were limp and pitiful as Bond in comparison to Connery.
I was a fan of all the classic Bond films with Sean and Roger, but the most recent Bond films of the 2010’s , still rating with Casino Royals, are spectacular, and I find them to be more realistic and gripping.
So Connery hated the fact that "On Her Majesty´s Secret Service" didn´t follow "Thunderball", but instead they chose a movie without character development. If you read the books, I think Connery is right. He wanted more intelligent scripts.
Absolutely brilliant and honest ,modern "actors" who can't lace this man's shoes, get paid millions for turning out the same rubbish..no wonder he packed the bond films in when you see what he was paid compared to the box office returns....he wasn't scared to try new roles and couldn't care less about his image.......absolute legend ..
Connery hadn’t long since finished filming You Only Live Twice when he done this interview and he had left the Bond series, his 5 film contract had ended albeit there was an option of a 6th and he wanted a significant pay rise to make the next one On Her Majesty s Secret Service as he alluded to here but he’d had enough of the Bond films he’d done 5 films in 6 years and each one took longer to make than the previous one and it didn’t leave him much time to make other films and then have a bit of time off, he was straight into the next Bond film but by the time he’d played Bond 5 times he’d lost the novelty of it and he thought the character of Bond was becoming secondary to the gadgets and spectacle, that and the long filming schedules (he was in Japan for many months filming You Only Live Twice) and not getting the pay rise he wanted for the 6th film led to him deciding to retire as James Bond.
@Clutch7but they were trailblazing action thrillers, and took the viewer to exotic locations. I think his biggest concern was that he though he was not paid enough and he had issues with the producer.
The interviewer was F LEE BAILEY This interview with Sean was October 1967 just before Sean went off to film SHALAKO This interview was one of a series of interviews under an NBC banner called GOOD COMPANY I think Tony Curtis was one 😍😍👍 👍 🙏🙏🏴🏴🏴❤️❤️🙏🙏
He looks much better in the THE ROCK (1995) than he did when he was much younger...thats the oldest 36 year old i ever saw😮 But when i was growing up he was already old abd looked better than when he was young anyone agree?
He was by then already living the fast life. At this point he had been admitted to the Bar only seven years prior, and here you see him interviewing movie-stars, because apparently winning case after case and running multiple businesses weren't enough. Driven and brilliant man.
He would go back for diamonds are forever not his best and later never say never again a film I prefer to the 1971 film. Sir Sean was a fine actor he made many great films post Bond.
I would've loved to chime in and say.....when all is said and done, the list of films in the biggest box office list is wildly different from the list of the greatest, or even the most loved, films of all time and that even goes for a list restricted to US/UK films without even including the art house cinema from the rest of the world.
Everyone's talking about how mature Sean looks at 37, but also of note is the interviewer F. Lee Bailey who was even younger here, around 33. Men just seemed older, more 'manly', back then than they do now.
The interviewer is 33? Sounds older and certainly looks older. Nobody looked soft then. They certainly didn't have a soft childhood or adolescents. You can see it in the lines on their faces. The interviewer was a fighter pilot in the Marines and Sean was in the navy and didn't have a soft childhood.
You name any actor in your culture who has such distinguished looks. His eyes are as recognisable Paul Newman's. You, from your picture look typical narcissistic generic. 20 years time you'll know. Local coffee shop guy trying to grab an interesting conversation.
@Clutch7 Get real, you talk rubbish. Sean was an actor with average skills not particularly well known a former milkman & sometimes bodybuilder as his CV! Ask yourself who in their right mind would risk their cash on him. He was a nobody in the film industry. It was the reputation of the producers alone that convinced the financiers to back the film which made Sean a popular and a wealthy man he later became. Without their help in the Film industry dominated by the class conscious crowd, I suspect Sean brought up in the slums in Edinburg would have found difficult to get even a minor role, probably would have returned to his earlier job of a milk delivery man.
@gxm there’s a fan theory that his character in the rock is his bond character. It goes hand in hand with the theory that 007 and James Bond are just code names and that’s why the actors keep changing but the names the same.
Julian Hans Halbeisen True. Connery always looked older than his actual age. In Dr No he was 31, and he looked at least late 30s. In Diamonds are Forever he was 40, but he looked 50 at least.
Julian Hans Halbeisen yea Roger was 45 when took over in 1972 to film Live and Let Die for its release in 1973 by then he had turned 46 but yes Moore is the oldest actor ever to play James Bond in his debut role. Connery was 31 when started filming Dr No in 1961. George Lazenby was the youngest Bond ever when made his only film at age 29 in 1968 for release in 1969. Moore in reality was only 3 years older then Connery
He was not replaced by Roger Moore at this stage. That was George Lazenby. He then returned four years later to do Diamonds are Forever. And then almost two years later he was replaced by Moore.
I was Lucky enough to have met Sean years ago when I was playing at an event in a pipe Band, he was so friendly and charming, he is a stunning looking man in person, oozes magnetism, had a great conversation with , I will treasure , so glad I got to meet the man, I have met many famous people doing what I do but Sean stuck out for me. R.I.P.
Could u elaborate on your conversation?...
how long ago was this?
It's fascinating how so many of the finest actors can appear so cool, calm and collected onscreen and yet off it, you can clearly see that they suffer with anxiety. Sean came across very well here: smart and very grounded.
Connery is NOT suffering anxiety of character in this interview. The anxiety is in Bailey's humourless demeanour that stifles Connery's possibility to "bubble". Watch any other interview with Connery and you will see what I mean.
@@BackSeatHump I have seen numerous Sean Connery interviews and acceptance speeches: the same signs are almost always there (to varying degrees): shortness of breath, forced smiles, licking/biting of the lips, awkward facial expressions, guarded, irritable and with a general air of discomfort. Individually these might not mean anything, but when you add them together I think that it's pretty clear. He's a lot like Harrison Ford, Sean Bean and Kevin Costner in this respect. The only time that he's appeared relaxed in an interview -- at least to me -- was the one where he appeared to be at a golf club, a place that was known to bring him solace.
@@dangiambrone7350 Well, celebrities are filmed in unusual, emotional situations. It seems to be a revelation to you that they'd feel slightly unsure or reluctant doing personal interviews or giving important acceptance speeches. I'd say it's normal and integral to connecting with others.
He appears pity relaxed to me , you have to remember that this isn’t a normal conversation he has to watch what he says and be restrained I mean he can’t throw in a few F bombs here and there , his true personality is restrained and he’s been interviewed where he has to speak while been filmed with a camera Crewe he’s also Scottish most like from Presbyterian heritage of a certain generation who were brought up to be very reserved!
@@BackSeatHumphe’s been interrogated by an attorney lol
This was mid 1967, when You Only Live twice was released , so he must have been 36 . He looked way, way older than 36. The good thing is that he looked like that until he was 70 or so.
Yep, the 1990s...
Fer Abra i calculated and thought the exact same thing before i read your comment
Connery made six Bond films. The fifth was "You only live twice". The sixth was "Diamonds are forever". Look it up on Wikipedia. He made another in 1983.
Beginning with Goldfinger he wore a toupe. That's why he looks so different. He was contracted for five films and decided he was done after those five. But for Diamonds Are Forever they offered him enough money he decided to do it again, and you can tell by his acting performance he was just there to pick up a paycheck.
Fer Abra he was 36 during this interview as born in 1930
It is amazing how the camera loves Connery no matter what or where he is filmed. May he R. I. P.
Never heard of this interview before - it's an absolutely fascinating interview where the interviewer lets connery talk.
I loved this. You only live twice was my first cinema Bond its amazing to hear Sean talking as himself at this time. He's a much more complex and considered man at this stage in his career than most people thought. The success of his Bond is responsible for the opportunitys it gave to all the others. For giving the "brand" its personality we all owe him a great debt of gratitude. Thanks Sean.
Fascinating. It's perceived that Sean didn't like interviews; this proves he's natural, down to earth and articulate. I believe this is from 'Good Company ' presented by attorney F. Lee Bailey .
Sean is so eloquent and wise, and funny. One of a kind!
I agree with you about Sean. I have seen so many videos over the last 12 months and one at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony from 2006 Sean gives his speech which contained eloquence, whit and humour and he also says which i think to me is very important is 'i learnt to read when i was 5' so he was well read
When Sean 'got the job' of playing a character called James Bond he had met Diane and she took him to her movement coach Yat Malmgren a Swedish Dance Teacher who ran the Drama Centre in North London as was and he said to Sean think of Cat Animals like Lions, Tigers and Panthers.
Sean moved like a panther
Why were the first 5 films such a WOW with the world Cinema audience back in 1962 with Dr No and You Only Live Twice 5 years later?
I put what was termed 'BONDMANIA' down to the following reasons
The first half of the 1950's was DRAB and Britain was still in the throngs of rationing. and even by the late 50's TV, Theatre, and films were black and white and the stories in films were mirroring in many ways the lives of the general public. What was called 'kitchen sink stuff'. My late parents who were in their mid 30's were living their HUM DRUM lives and they were never fortunate to own a TV so the Cinema was their main source of entertainment.
When Dr No came along they were shown, FAR OFF EXOTIC places, fast cars, beautiful women, champagne, casino's and someone who was licenced to kill and indulge his pleasures.
It is sad he suffered for a number of years with Dementia and not able to communicate and the other ailments he had as well.
I know that around 2006 Hunter Davies went out to Nassau to discuss with Sean a book deal which Sean had received an advance for but it never got off the ground and Sean gave the advance back. There is nothing 'out there' to say why it did not appear but Sean was having some health issues that year and had to have a tumour removed from his kidney.
I wonder what he would think of the world today?
Of course, Sean Connery was the quintessential James Bond. I was sad when he decided to leave the franchise, but it was the best thing he could have ever done for himself. Had he stayed, he would have surely staled in the role. By leaving, he became a legend.
I will always wish Connery had agreed to do the last Bond film of the 60s, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It would have been his best film ever.
Earl A. Birkett Sure. Moore should have started in Diamonds are forever and left in Moonraker.
Sure, I can see Connery playing Bond until Golden Gun. Both Live and Let Die and Golden Gun were similar in tone to Diamonds, really. The series changed for good in 1977 with the Spy who Loved me. But the same is true for Diamonds are Forever compared to 60s movies; I can see Moore in it, but not in Dr. No, From Russia with Love...As for Dalton, I think he would have been superb in From your Eyes only already. I wish he would have done all the 80s Bonds. Such a great actor.
I agree that OHMSS would have been better with Connery,but in fairness you have to admit George Lazenby did a pretty good job considering his lack of acting experience.
Earl A. Birkett Yeah I've always thought that Connery would have been brilliant in ohmss.
I can't see Sean doing a Bond movie with a dead wife by the end of it and the villains escaping alive.
He's 37 here, and looks 37 -- if you're losing your hair in your late 30s. He's literally the best-looking guy I (and you) have ever seen, so cut him some slack! lol. And a fine actor, and very intelligent, to boot -- and came out of serious poverty, too. Actually, his one directing credit is terrific -- a doc on labor and management in Scotland. Interestingly lefty. Made around this time, too, I believe. It's not on RUclips, but it's online somewhere, or was.
I agree, he looks extremely handsome. Plus his eye brows make up for the thinning tresses haha.
Doug Tarnopol he's hot to me. Such a sexy man.
U must b gay
This is filmed between June 67 and Sept 67.
Interviewer referred to the gyro helicopter in YOLT and that was premiered in June 67.
In previous interview Connery refers to begin filming Shalako in the November.
Connery was only to return one final time in the Eon series 4 years later in 71 with DAF, released in 72.
His overall body of work easily eclipsed his time as Bond. In almost every interview through the decades he always mentioned FRWL as his favourite Bond. The Man Who Would Be King remained his favourite film.
The Hill: The Offence: The Man Who Would Be King: The Name Of The Rose: The Untouchables: Last Crusade:
The Rock.
Sean Connery certainly left us a legacy to be proud of and endlessly enjoy.
For me, this is the best Sean Connery interview available on RUclips.
The complete interview, featuring Connery’s first wife, was available but I haven’t seen it here in awhile.
My favorite Sean Connery performance was in "The Name of the Rose."
The man who would be king
Agree. Love that movie, very good and underrated film.
I respect his decision; unlike Clint Eastwood, who saw the Harry sequels as a means to make mainstream money, Sean didn't really like mainstream cinema, at least during the '60s and '70s; but he could have played the role of James Bond from 1962 to 1983, each movie being a hit, I'm sure of it, and reducing or erasing completely the camp and comedy of the Moore era
during the making of "you only live twice" Connery was utterly fed up of the international media circus hounding him and totally pissed off with producer Cubby Broccolli whom he felt totally stiffed him on his contract and his salary for playing Bond, in today's money taking inflation into account the franchise earned billions with Connery in the role and he always felt he was not rewarded properly for his contribution as Bond. He also hated wearing a toupe, or the "Bond Hat" as he called it, and made no secret of his lack of hair while he was off camera, while filming on location in Japan for You Only Live Twice Connery one day showed his total distain for the production by ripping off his toupe at the end of the days location filming and throwing it like a frisbee towards the make up person, this was in front of the worlds press and hundreds of onlookers who were spectating the days filming...he just couldn't care less, that is a true story and that is just the tip of the iceberg. After the release of Diamond Are Forever Connery got a memo from the producers requesting him to wear the toupe for the world promotional tour and public appearances and chat shows etc, Connery sent a written reply back to the Producers that consisted of two words.....Fuck Off.
AWSOME, yet very down to earth. Coolness personified!
My favorite of his films are his "other" films, such as "The Name of the Rose". He was able to do anything. I really think we lost a giant.
I have always enjoyed Sean Connery movies my personal favorite is Woman of Staw, Marine as all the James Bond 007 with him as Bond. There will never be another Bond actor for me.
From Russia With Love is indeed the best one....(in my opinion)
Thunderball for me, then Dr No, then From Russia with Love
Goldfinger.
In mine too
Definitely not your own. The film has never been surpassed in my book.
If I were to rank to Sean Connery bonds films from russia with love would be my favourite then Goldfinger then you only live twice then diamonds then I would put thunderball at the bottom because apart from one of the Bond girls being a villain I can’t think of anything else in thunderball that is actually good. Oh and Sean Connery forgot to say that
You Only Live Twice 50 this year! wow.. still my fav childhood & Bond film ever. Wonderful interview.
2 absolute geniuses.
Thank you for sharing this amazing footage.
Never to be duplicated.
Speechless over Sean's death. He was the same age as my father who passed 5 years ago.
He lived a long life and did it his way. Sean was the very definition of debonair.
my god all the comments on how old he looks...today adult men in their 30s look like children and act like little girls....
Second that!
Nice
Twenties are the new teens
He's been outside quite a bit. Most people stay indoors now so their skin looks baby like.
hahahaha I want to beat them up.
F. Lee Bailey, intelligent and articulate as he is, can be impressively crude sometimes in his questions.
... not to mention BORING!
Character and expertise..two seperate and distinctly different characteristics, I feel.
I knew that gentleman looked familiar....thanks for putting a name with the face.
@@minniethemouse62 A very public attorney, he was, getting involved many high profile cases.
Not a good person. Defended OJ Simpson
Back when interviews were about two people talking to each other
Sean really made it outside being Bond, James Bond.
Hard to tell much difference between Sean Connery and the James Bond he portrayed on the screen. Connery is a little more loose and laid back while his James Bond is more intense, other than that it's like the same person lol He brought a lot of himself to the role and he James Bond the character didn't make him , he made the character
It was worth watching just to hear him say "Frankenshtein"
That's what you're mother said Trebek
Purple Strike around 1:10
"stein" pronounced like it is pronounced in German. .. :-)
@@JaIch9999 now you mention it, yes. lol
@Purple Strike lasht night
From humble background in Edinburgh to one of the best actors his heart was always in Scotland. Unfortunately the English establishment deliberately didn’t really advertise how much he give to charities e.g. his £1m fee for making Diamonds are forever went to the Scottish international education trust. He was also the best Bond!
It's not Christian to advertise Charity... and that quiet way, makes it that much more honorable. Cheers ; )
In my mind, he was the ONLY Bond....
There wasn't some plot by the 'English establishment' to hide Connery's charitable donations. His heart was in Scotland, his body preferred the south of France, Marbella in Spain, and the Bahamas, the latter conveniently tax free.
I appreciate Sean Connery in all of his roles, not just as Bond. I love the 'thumb beatdown' in The Presidio and his work in Hunt for Red October and others. A true legend!
An excellent interview. Thank you for posting it. This interview really gives you a sense of Connery as a man and what he brought to the Bond character. Very interesting insights.
He looks better than any actor of any age in Hollywood today
Very interesting interview. He's really articulate and honest. Very refreshing compared with today's idiotic stars who need to curse every two seconds or have such limited vocabularies.
Tell me, which "idiotic stars " are you referring to? Connery isn't exactly going to go on a formal television interview saying "fuck" and "cunt" is he, but you can guarantee he swears in his everyday life. Swearing is not, and has never been a problem. it's knowing WHEN to swear and when not to.
To return to my original point, can you link to any clips of a similar formal interview with today's stars swearing "every two seconds" as you stated?
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Really a guy whose stories and musings you d love to listen to in a quiet pub. What an evening that would be
Syklone You pee sitting down. My proof is that your father told everyone.....
he's gorgeous...Love the way he talks,moves,looks...One sexy and handsome dude....not to mention a fantastic actor.
Its funny people used to say you can't say Sean Connery without thinking James Bond. For me Sean Connery is a lot more, he's Indiana Jones's father, The Cop who helped Elliot Ness, The SAS operative from The Rock.... but when you say James Bond I associate him with Connery.
Ummm the SAS operative in "The Rock" WAS James Bond.......
It wasn't until he won that Oscar for the Untouchables is when he got better roles . You forgot Rising Sun which the novelist and screenplay was written with him in mind ( and the ones you mentioned) , he did mess up some in his final years and passed up Lords of the Rings and so glad he passed Star Trek 5 , yeah he will always be James Bond since he was the first .He looked better in his real old age I think .
Fun fact: Sean Connery is only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.
Blaine Savini he was not he played John Patrick Mason who was a British intelligence officer before got arrested but his character was a nod to James Bond not actually James Bond
Dan Reese He played and got better roles long before the Untouchables.
Some people talk about how old Connery looked, when he was just 37. But geez what about interviewer F. Lee Bailey!? Bailey is 34 and looks 50! Connery aged like fine wine though, he looked fantastic 30+ years later in "Entrapment" (1999).
I think that Sean Connery had masculinity pouring out his pores, not sweat. One sexy man.
I concur and second that notion.
Had he been born, say in the eighties, he had now to get in line and be: WOKE, PC, libtard, feminist soy-boy and be forced to wear knickers.
I feel sorry for all young boys and men out there, who doesn´t get to be what they want to be and have to apologize for talking to females...
"Marnie" is a brilliant film.
Chris Weidner ..I watched it last eve. From you tube...try it it,s called Marnie...Diana Harding😊
@James Williams I watched it and Hopefully, at age 62, I have developed some sense of a discerning eye.
What about Woman Of Straw?
Very intelligent and articulate, Sean was. So proud that my dad named me after him.
Solid questions on part of the interviewer. I know he was famous too Im just forgetting his name now? Im 'Only' 47 here in 2023. Always liked the Bond films from very young age. I got introduced to them through Roger Moore firstly, but then over time got to see the Connery films, then forward, so on. Great Franchise.
I love how he is being so real,about the industry and how sucked in e.g.the interviewer is in constantly portraying the fantasy aspect of the entertainment business.Take 2 the 2nd half utterly brilliant authentic intelligent man Sir Thomas Connery that comes through with this.Best interview I've seen.
Sean Connery The One and Only Bond. Having said that he has such a body of work Bond is only a small but very memorable part of Connerys identity.
His Bond was rough and brutal, more like a cynical hitman.
mickeyh1961 “Catherine zeta Jones, she dips beneath lasers, ooh ohh”
@@marguskiis7711 like pierce brosnan and daniel craig. Edgy. Unrepentant. Real
Fascinating Interview, very candid, personality my favourite non bond. film of Connerys was The Offence, very very powerful film which was as far away from bond as it was possible to get.
When I first saw OHMSS, I had read the book several times and it is part of a 3 book trilogy Thunderball, OHMSS and You Only live Twice I thought OHMSS was the best bond book, so to see no Sean Connery was at first a shock and I didn’t like it, but admired how the script was kept so closely to the book which is brilliant something I didn’t think would have happened if Connery was still bond. Over time and reading the bond books again and again I have come to appreciate George lazenby as bond, bond is a uninteresting, cold, inhumane killer for the government and I have come to see how lazenby inexperience made him the bond of the books. The bond in the books is a lot different to how he was played by Connery or more, dalton tried to bring the dark side of bond to the screen but they say the time wasn’t right for that sort of portrayal which was a shame, Craig casino royal was one of the best portraits of bond as the book character, remember bond is a taker of drugs drinks to excess and smokes to excess Craig missed the smoking parts but his was spot on with the rest.
So I would put lazenby, dalton and Craig as the best portrayals of such a misunderstood book character.
Thanks for reading.
@randywhite3947 Um, no. Dalton is the best Bond, and Craig and Lazenby are also the ones closest to the book.
@randywhite3947 no. It's Dalton.
Sean Connery was so articulate that he was able to describe the James Bond character with just 5 words when he said the character is “cool, suave, sophisticated, with humor.” Yes, that is the essence of Bond, and in this interview can you see all the same qualities in Connery? This answers the question “did James Bond create Sean Connery or did Sean Connery create James Bond?” I believe Sean Connery WAS James Bond BECAUSE of who he already was as a person. The character just happened to fit him like a tailor-made suit.
A fine man as any he was. I was taken aback about how reflective and articulate he was, not even with a thick Scottish accent. He looked through the artifice of his James Bond role, yes, a kind of Frankenstein, as he put it. Nice try at German pronunciation, besides...
I love Sir Sean's honesty here.. Just think of the time and how famous he was then.. (of course, still is) This was at the total height of the original Bondmania.. He had the world at his feet and millions at stake but on principal, said 'screw this' and walked because he didn't see that his cut was fair of the deal.. He could have smiled and said, fair enough, I will carry on rolling with 007 but he knew that he would just be going through the rote performance and wouldn't be doing anything new or groundbreaking.. Certainly not rewarding for him.. I agree with previous comments though.. His last film with EON should have been OHMSS.. Yet.. I loved Lazenby in that performance.. An incredible interview.. A real coup..
How can Sean Connery be 37 years old in this interview and manage not to age in the next four decades ?
Pretty amazing
Some ppl are like that, ages rapidly at early stage but then it evens out as they grow older.
How he do that ? he stop aging after after 37yrs old.....sign me up HIYAH
He did continue to lose hair after this, so he didn't completely stop aging.
@@Redstripe921 there's no way this is 67. In YOLT he looks much younger. I'd say 1977 would be a better date.
@@BadMouse101 It's definitely '67 as he said he's just finished his 5th film and won't be coming back. Believe it or not, he's 37 years old here.
His comments on Charlie Chaplin - who was still making films when this interview was done - are fascinating. Love how he is mocking Bailey throughout this interview.
What a lovely chap!His principles are fresh,most actors would have played the game and kept pumping the films out. Witthout Sean,007 would have been one and done.He was part of the 'great 60s triad',JFK,The Beatles &Sean Connery.
Edward Feltch I read somewhere that during the Cuban Missle Crisis during the early 60's; President Kennedy said...He needed a man like James Bond.
Edward Feltch Remember the comment James Bond made in 'Goldfinger'...."Drinking Dom Perignom higher than a certain temperature, was like listening to the Beatles without ear muffs"...Lol!
I know Sean looks old for his age but for F Lee Bailey to be 34 is very surprising
but that's normal for masculine figures. they look 40 at 30, 50 at 40, and they stay looking 50 for a long time.
Given how much he ended up hating Bond, Connery is being quite patient here.
How do we know he hated bond ?
I told people years ago before he stop doing bond that he was great actor I prove my point Zardoz.
Connery will always be the James Bond. One of the reasons he won the role of James Bond what's the cause the producers like the way he walked and moved. Always thought he was just so cool.
1:36 this is not just true for Connery but for anyone who has ever been involved with the Bond series. The Bond films will be by far the most popular films in their career. So I don't think it says that much about Connery that his non-Bond films weren't as succesful at the box office. Of course this is very easy to say in hindsight.
Brosnan has had larger films outside of the Bond franchise, but he was typically supporting in them.
I loved this interview, pity about the interruption (did you see Sean's face).
He seems like a nice guy off the big screen.
No he doesn't 😂 😂 great actor though.
@@bonnie3447 why?
Connery realized at this time that the character of James Bond will always be Sean Connery in disguise and not himself. He IS James Bond and no other. That is what he means oh his analogy of Frankenstein.
So different than his Bond personna. Astounding. Bond is suave, well spoken, very confident and macho and projects certain traits. Sean Connery on the other hand seems so different here. Except the Suave part.
fxp What a difference Hairpiece makes!
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I am a life-long Sir Sean Connery fan starting from his 007 in the 1960's. This was so cool to watch- I love his favorite Bond is From Russia with Love which many acknowledge as the best pure 'spy' film of the first 5.
From Russia With Love has the best fight scene of any Bond film.
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He looks cool with thinning curly locks. Like, he looks a real badass.
I like that he didn t go to a lot of trouble to comb his hair or dress up for the interview. Very natural and intimate
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this was from a short lived series on abc in, i think, 1967 called " good company " that f. lee bailey hosted and was the interviewer.
The only name that is equal to James Bond, is Ian Fleming. And the only name that is equal to both is Sean Connery. R.I.P Sir.
Did Ian Fleming live long enough to see his stories make it to the big screen?
@ENOCH WAS RIGHT i have to disagree. Everyone has their favorite Bond but the only one that maybe comes close to Sean Connery is Pierce Brosnan. To me Roger Moore was never cut for this role. His fighting scenes were almost ridiculous. Thats my opinion of course. May God rest their souls.
@@rayjr62 yes. He died in 1964.
@ENOCH WAS RIGHT Moore came nowhere near Connery in the role of Bond. I agree with Stelios C that Moore was never cut for the role. Moore's performances were limp and pitiful as Bond in comparison to Connery.
I was a fan of all the classic Bond films with Sean and Roger, but the most recent Bond films of the 2010’s , still rating with Casino Royals, are spectacular, and I find them to be more realistic and gripping.
So Connery hated the fact that "On Her Majesty´s Secret Service" didn´t follow "Thunderball", but instead they chose a movie without character development.
If you read the books, I think Connery is right. He wanted more intelligent scripts.
I've read all of Fleming's novels and none of the films did them justice. I enjoy the films but they never went beyond the superficial.
Connery in his then home, Acacia House, Centre Avenue, London, Ealing, Greater London.
The house looks the same from the outside 50 + years on but it may be lustef
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Absolutely brilliant and honest ,modern "actors" who can't lace this man's shoes, get paid millions for turning out the same rubbish..no wonder he packed the bond films in when you see what he was paid compared to the box office returns....he wasn't scared to try new roles and couldn't care less about his image.......absolute legend ..
RIP Sean Connery 🙏 The Best James Bond Ever!
Connery hadn’t long since finished filming You Only Live Twice when he done this interview and he had left the Bond series, his 5 film contract had ended albeit there was an option of a 6th and he wanted a significant pay rise to make the next one On Her Majesty s Secret Service as he alluded to here but he’d had enough of the Bond films he’d done 5 films in 6 years and each one took longer to make than the previous one and it didn’t leave him much time to make other films and then have a bit of time off, he was straight into the next Bond film but by the time he’d played Bond 5 times he’d lost the novelty of it and he thought the character of Bond was becoming secondary to the gadgets and spectacle, that and the long filming schedules (he was in Japan for many months filming You Only Live Twice) and not getting the pay rise he wanted for the 6th film led to him deciding to retire as James Bond.
Fascinating to see the two 'takes' of the same interview and how the content varies slightly.
He was beautiful!!!!!!
He will be forever James Bond. All the others are simply great actors who played the role of James Bond
It's a shame it seems he does not appreciate the 007 films and yet it's what made him so admired and famous.
@Clutch7but they were trailblazing action thrillers, and took the viewer to exotic locations. I think his biggest concern was that he though he was not paid enough and he had issues with the producer.
such a perfect man😘😘😘
He always has had such a nobility to him. #respect
You could tell he was fed up with Bond at this point and wanted to move on.
To be precise for the watchers it is an preserved interview done by by F. Lee Bailey with Sean at his home in 1967, complete unedited
I think he looks damn good here.
who is the interviewer???? i know his face...just cant recall the name
Mr. Connery relly come across as very intelligent and a deep thinker
The interviewer was F LEE BAILEY
This interview with Sean was October 1967 just before Sean went off to film SHALAKO
This interview was one of a series of interviews under an NBC banner called GOOD COMPANY
I think Tony Curtis was one
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A suave man even when not portraying Bond!
He looks much better in the
THE ROCK (1995) than he did when he was much younger...thats the oldest 36 year old i ever saw😮
But when i was growing up he was already old abd looked better than when he was young anyone agree?
This just seems like two regular guys having a chat.
Old school TV
that's because they're not loud Americans that have to act in an exaggerated fashion in front of a camera
@@andrehb the interviewer is American
@@j_scee6819 the exception that proves the rule
How articulate at 37...and self educated...marvelous
Especially for coming from a poor background
F. Lee Bailey was around 34 when he did this interview with Sean Connery. To me, he looked like he was in his 40s.
He was by then already living the fast life. At this point he had been admitted to the Bar only seven years prior, and here you see him interviewing movie-stars, because apparently winning case after case and running multiple businesses weren't enough.
Driven and brilliant man.
He s unctuous and ill prepared for the interview. The first thing we do. Let s kill all the lawyers
He would go back for diamonds are forever not his best and later never say never again a film I prefer to the 1971 film. Sir Sean was a fine actor he made many great films post Bond.
I would've loved to chime in and say.....when all is said and done, the list of films in the biggest box office list is wildly different from the list of the greatest, or even the most loved, films of all time and that even goes for a list restricted to US/UK films without even including the art house cinema from the rest of the world.
Damn, he's in his late 30s but he looks like he's in his 50s.
He was 36 during this interview
You age in “stages”. He didn’t age much over the next 30 years..
Yeah, but he stayed looking like this for the next 45 years!
I think it's because of his baldness
Made it to 90. Some people just looks old early and then never channge
Yes. It’s 1967. Around minute 20 to 22 the presenter says: “5 or 6 years ago, you made Dr. no”
Everyone's talking about how mature Sean looks at 37, but also of note is the interviewer F. Lee Bailey who was even younger here, around 33.
Men just seemed older, more 'manly', back then than they do now.
The interviewer is 33? Sounds older and certainly looks older. Nobody looked soft then. They certainly didn't have a soft childhood or adolescents. You can see it in the lines on their faces. The interviewer was a fighter pilot in the Marines and Sean was in the navy and didn't have a soft childhood.
@@Mirokuofnite , those men still exist. Those men aren't scouted after anymore. We've seen what pampering can do to a person's longevity.
fun fact, sean connery got that salary and returned to next bond. 1.25 million dollar was something like 6 million in todays standard-
Everyone says he looks old here, which he does - but if he shaved the mustache and wore a toupee without grey, he'd look age appropriate.
It was the 60s, everyone aged badly. Everyone smoked too.
You name any actor in your culture who has such distinguished looks. His eyes are as recognisable Paul Newman's. You, from your picture look typical narcissistic generic. 20 years time you'll know. Local coffee shop guy trying to grab an interesting conversation.
Pft
Bottles of milk are being placed under Sir Sean's plaque at Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1oclockgun.org
You are missed Sir. Thanks for entertaining me for years.
injustice and freeloading - description of producers - interesting words
rhodes22 rhodes22 He forgets they made him immensely wealthy. Got paid millions for mimicking few hours a week.
@Clutch7 Get real, you talk rubbish. Sean was an actor with average skills not particularly well known a former milkman & sometimes bodybuilder as his CV!
Ask yourself who in their right mind would risk their cash on him. He was a nobody in the film industry.
It was the reputation of the producers alone that convinced the financiers to back the film which made Sean a popular and a wealthy man he later became. Without their help in the Film industry dominated by the class conscious crowd, I suspect Sean brought up in the slums in Edinburg would have found difficult to get even a minor role, probably would have returned to his earlier job of a milk delivery man.
“The Rock” is the best Bond film ever.
@gxm lmao!!!!
@gxm there’s a fan theory that his character in the rock is his bond character. It goes hand in hand with the theory that 007 and James Bond are just code names and that’s why the actors keep changing but the names the same.
Sean Connery here in this particular interview kind of looks like a young Werner Herzog.
Hahaha he is 36 in this video and when he was replaced by the "younger" Roger Moore, Roger was 46... and looked still younger :D
Julian Hans Halbeisen True. Connery always looked older than his actual age. In Dr No he was 31, and he looked at least late 30s. In Diamonds are Forever he was 40, but he looked 50 at least.
And despite that he could still make a twenty year old girl weak at the knees. GO SEAN.
And yet Connery was still more convincing as a kick ass suave ruthless agent. Hmm
Julian Hans Halbeisen yea Roger was 45 when took over in 1972 to film Live and Let Die for its release in 1973 by then he had turned 46 but yes Moore is the oldest actor ever to play James Bond in his debut role. Connery was 31 when started filming Dr No in 1961. George Lazenby was the youngest Bond ever when made his only film at age 29 in 1968 for release in 1969. Moore in reality was only 3 years older then Connery
He was not replaced by Roger Moore at this stage. That was George Lazenby. He then returned four years later to do Diamonds are Forever. And then almost two years later he was replaced by Moore.
What a smouldering down to earth, open, thoughtful gent Connery is and what a pie faced, dull, rude yank he is juxtaposed with....