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I can perfectly see what you mean.
But still quite sad that everything ended up so bad between Sean Connery and Eon. Sure it was work but for him its role which made him famous and for them they found their star to Make James Bond one of the biggest franchises ever.
So it was something that should have ended up in better terms.
Sean Connery had his good reasons to be as upset as he was and its more of a big thing if 2 more actors ended up as angry as Sean was but with the difference that the other two were able to make peace with them.
How am I being childish? Just because you choose not to attend funerals for people you've known for decades after you've been invited doesn't mean that's considered normal. No offense but I think that makes you a bit odd. Go and watch the Everything or Nothing documentary and you'll see home video footage of Sean Connery at Broccoli and Saltzman's houses vacationing with them and their children. There's was not simply a "business relationship". It was a close friendship, pure and simple. And yes they had a falling out but if I was invited to a funeral of someone I was once close to by that person's children I would go just out of basic human decency and pay my final respects.
Anyway you cut it, Bond made Connery's career. One can even argue that he coasted on that during the lean years of the 70s. Anyone who believes Connery would've had the same career without his run as James Bond during the 60s that turned him into a icon is incredibly naive. Yes EON cheated Connery out of some money but they also gave him his first big break when he was an unknown actor.
Many people find it hard to be grateful to people who have given them a break - the debt of gratitude can turn into resentment, especially if the person who gave the break believes they are owed something.
I remember that well. I also recall being really put out by Brosnan's comments at time. But I got over it . . . by the time he did his last Bond movie.
Was there a previous encounter here or did this feud start with that press conference?
But see it this way, he has now really changed, like now he really doesnt talk anything bad about anyone and even now sounds much more grateful towards the franchise which made him famous.
Ive seen thousands of interviews with him, while hecwas Bond and after and has i've always liked him but i like him now even more. I really love much more this new Pierce who is more positive and always has nice for everyone he has worked with.
If Teri would have gotten this new Pierce as a co star their chemistry would have been better.
Im not a fan of Lazenby at all, actually he is my least favorite Bond but as much as i adore Pierce he came off a little rude toward Lazenby, there was no need to say what he did, sure its ok to say who were his favorites and who he wanted to emulate but he didnt have to say what he did about a lazenby.
Part of the success in show buisness is being polite and Pierce should have practiced that more while he was at his peak. I adore Pierce and i think he has always been great in interviews but he has his flaws, like everyone in this world
Anyway Getting out of topic
i wonder if european actors have something against playing the full hollywood game.?
Ralph Fiennes why can't he smile in interviews or at least have some fun, really why does he have to treat interviews like torture ?
Daniel Day Lewis actually when he is on a good mood he is great but appearing at late night shows wouldn't hurt him, what is so bad about being a few minutes with Jimmy Fallon and playing the game.
Jimmy fallon is a very nice and sweet guy.
For Sean Connery he is now retired but why did he have to say what he did in the interview with Barbara Walters ?
Ok i get it she was a bitt provoking and wanted the ratings but was it too hard for Connery to say, i regret what i said i love woman and ive always respected them.Why did he have to say i haven't changed my mind.?
I adore my brits and irish man but sometimes i wished they copied George Clooney. Its not that hard. Just look at him the man is a very average actor but because he has always said what people want to hear is considered a great actor.
All the actors i previously mentioned are way better than Clooney so imagine how their careers would go if they did everything Clooney has done.
They are actors, its just acting a little more and see interviews as another great performance.
Where was the one where Lazenby had a go at Craig? I've seen him compliment Craig, that's all. Brosnan and Lazenby were kind of let down in their Bond films by factors they couldn't control, though Lazenby technically brought it on himself with the whole "expecting star treatment" thing which is why Peter Hunt gave him the cold shoulder during the entire production.
Do you know what Connery think of Lazenby? Now or then? Any link out there? Thanks.
Connery's beef was mainly about money, I think. He felt he'd played a key role in the success of Bond but was not being financially rewarded enough.
I think the Everything Or Nothing documentary tells the story pretty clearly, Sean felt like Brocolli & Saltzman were exploiting him. Broccoli was a little more of middle man but Saltzman's attitude was that Connery was an ungrateful B*tard. Connery refused to act on set during YOLT while Saltzman was on set. Saltzman lost sense of reality which was his downfall, money went to his head, he began buying up companies just because he could, he lavished his wife in custom made diamond jewellery and threw money around like he has licence to print it. Salztman then had to sell up his stake in EON to stop him going broke. Knowing of Saltzman's lavish spending, you could understand why Connery was looking at it an thinking "I am the star doing the work here, I deserve a bigger piece of the pie". Sean though thought by quitting Bond would not go on without him, forcing them to come back with $$$BIG to have him back, to some degree he was right and he got what he wanted. However Connery agreeing to do McCrorys NSNA up against EON's Octopussy proved Bond was bigger than Connery as Octopussy destroyed it at the box office. Broccoli was extremely upset with Sean, I believe he always felt Connery's beef was with Saltzman and because he was closer to Broccoli he directed the anger at Broccoli for not backing him more rather than siding with Saltzman
Barbara did say on the EON documentary that while Cubby was ill in his final days she was having dinner in LA and Sean walked over and said to her "Can I speak to him", Barbara said sure and called Cubby. Cubby said to Sean "We started something great together" Sean said "We did" Cubby said "I love you Sean", Sean replied "I love you" and that was the last they spoke as Cubby died a few days later. Was great they could burry the hatchet.
Only OP did not destroy NSNA at the BO, both movies were a brilliant year for anybody calling himself a 007 fan, which I am more than a EON fan. ;)
I enjoyed both great James Bonds at the cinema in a time when video was just beginning to make its mark.
Without a doubt, Lazenby is the most human 007. He's vulnerable, sensitive; at one point even desperate. That moment at the skating rink when he's rescued by Tracy may be the most touching scene in any Bond film.... well, apart from her death that is. It beats Old Frosty Knicker's death in Skyfall by a country mile.
Is great in OHMSS so perhaps he should be thankful to Peter Hunt for helping
Him give his performance ?
You are correct my friend
World Box office
Never Say Never Again $159,932,841
Octopussy $182,040,579
Not destroyed, my wording was a little heavy. but beat it all the same by $21M+ a big boost for EON being able to show Bond is bigger than Sean. Give me Thunderball over either any day :))
"I actually like him—a lot—and think he could have made a terrific Bond had he continued (allegedly he decided before the shoot was over he would only play the part once). What seems obvious to me, though, is no one was helping him during the shoot or the edit (they won’t even let him finish a f%&#@ sentence onscreen). It feels like everyone was so focused on what he wasn’t (Sean Connery) that they didn’t take the time to figure out what he was (a cool-looking dude with genuine presence and great physicality). For instance, they should have known that a lot of the one-liners that would have worked with Connery don’t work with Lazenby. This isn’t because he’s bad, it’s because his entire affect is different, less glib. This, to me, is a lack of sensitivity and understanding on the part of the filmmakers and not a shortcoming of the lead actor, because Lazenby has one thing you can’t fake, which is a certain kind of gravitas. Despite this, there is no attempt to bring it out or amplify it, which is a huge missed opportunity. Also, Lazenby has a vulnerability that Connery never had—there are scenes in which he looks legitimately terrified and others in which he convinces us that he is in love with Tracy (particularly in the final scene)."
I recall saying the very same thing about "some" of Hunt's odd choice of cuts many year's ago. Not that I'm besmirching the great man's work, I just think he could've perhaps chosen some better takes or edits.
Wise and perceptive comments from Soderbergh. I think Laz is under appreciated. So many people on here rank OHMSS as amongst the best Bond movies but Laz almost invariably gets ranked last amongst the actors, as if it's pure coincidence that he happens to be in one of the best Bond movies. It just doesn't add up.
I think he gives an excellent performance. As SS says, he has real presence, and it's difficult to imagine any of the other Bond actors bringing the same vulnerability and believability to the role. For all that Laz and Rigg supposedly couldn't stand each other, the on screen relationship really works well.
I rate Laz fourth personally, above Brosnan and Craig.
A proper revenge based DAF with Laz is one of the great lost Bond movies.
Tbh I doubt Connery feels anything for or against Laz.
He was good friends with Rog though, so was doubtless happy that he took over eventually.
Only that he thought Lazenby and Moore were a paradoy of the character. That was in interview with someone from the BBC as part of 50th celebration piece he also said in that interview he found Daniel's Bond terrifying.
Any way, Connery was increasingly doing a charicature as his tenure went on.