0:00:02 > 0:00:06This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:06 > 0:00:07What the hell's going on?
0:00:07 > 0:00:09This isn't the Chicken Palace!
0:00:09 > 0:00:11You promised me a chicken bucket.
0:00:11 > 0:00:12Sorry, me old timer,
0:00:12 > 0:00:16but I knew you wouldn't come if you knew the truth.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Damn you, Caine, you know I hate surprises.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Cheer up, my Scottish compadre.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Have some popcorn, relax and let's have a watch.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Probably one of the best screen actors...ever.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Sean Connery's a star. He's a star actor.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37He's what people want to see.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41He just owned the screen and his magnetism and charisma
0:00:41 > 0:00:42just shone out.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Sean Connery has a huge amount of gravitas.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46I do think Sean Connery is the best.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50I love the man. I love the man.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52There was nobody greater at that time than Sean.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53He was everything.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54He's a man's man.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56He's a movie star.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00CHEERING
0:01:01 > 0:01:03'In 1962,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05'one man redefined the action hero...'
0:01:05 > 0:01:07GUNSHOT
0:01:07 > 0:01:10'..with a role that catapulted him to global superstar.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13- 'Sean Connery became...'- Bond.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15MUSIC: James Bond Theme by Monty Norman
0:01:15 > 0:01:16James Bond.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19He is, for me, the definitive James Bond.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22He is, for me, the definitive 007.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23GLASS SHATTERS
0:01:24 > 0:01:26He was brilliant.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Brilliant then and still brilliant.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31I've come to offer my sincere condolences.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36My favourite Bond? Sean Connery. No question.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39CAT MIAOWS
0:01:39 > 0:01:40GUNSHOT
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Sean is the one that's emblazoned in my brain.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48MAN SCREAMS
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Very sexy, very dangerous,
0:01:51 > 0:01:52very humorous, as well.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Plenty.
0:01:55 > 0:01:56Well, of course you are.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Plenty O'Toole.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Named after your father, perhaps.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03The only thing I didn't like about the James Bond films
0:02:03 > 0:02:05was that I wasn't in them.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11Remarkable.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12But what does the club have to say?
0:02:12 > 0:02:15I don't think there's any doubt he's the best Bond of all time.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18He was a magnificent Bond. He's my Bond.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22JAMES BOND THEME CONTINUES
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Now, incidentally, that's not Fort Knox.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30It's a film set here, Goldfinger,
0:02:30 > 0:02:32in Buckinghamshire, Pinewood.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35And I'm not James Bond. He's a fictitious character,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37as so many are in Fleming's books.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40It did change your career, didn't it, totally, James Bond?
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Oh, that vodka's strong!
0:02:44 > 0:02:46LAUGHTER
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Um, yes it did.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Yes, it did, enormously.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52I would never have recognised it at the time
0:02:52 > 0:02:55and anybody who was really honest,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58and that's including United Artists, Saltzman, Broccoli
0:02:58 > 0:03:00and all the rest of them,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03none of them anticipated the success it was going to be.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05'Strange to think now,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07'but Bond's first screen outing
0:03:07 > 0:03:09'was by no means a sure-fire success.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12'Dr No was a low-budget production,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15'action heroes were never Scottish.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17'And Bond creator, Ian Fleming,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20'thought that casting Connery was a huge mistake.'
0:03:20 > 0:03:21It had to be absolutely right.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23I think the wrong casting,
0:03:23 > 0:03:25that might have been the end of James Bond.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28And he was very...modest.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32He said, "Ach, they've tried everybody else, didn't they?"
0:03:32 > 0:03:34He said, "They went to David Niven,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36James Mason, Carrie Grant."
0:03:36 > 0:03:39He said, "They tried all of them, but they were too dear."
0:03:39 > 0:03:42He said, "So, I suppose what was left was me."
0:03:42 > 0:03:44I'll just go and put some clothes on.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Oh, don't go to any trouble on my account.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Please!
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Oh, forgive me.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54I thought I was invited up here to admire the view.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56When he first was Bond, there were a lot of people saying,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59"He can't be Bond, he's not this, he's not that."
0:03:59 > 0:04:01'Ian Fleming was horrified
0:04:01 > 0:04:03'when told that they were thinking of Sean Connery.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05He said, "Absolutely not.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08"This is not my image of James Bond."
0:04:08 > 0:04:11James Bond, after he was thrown out of Eton
0:04:11 > 0:04:14for misbehaving with a maid,
0:04:14 > 0:04:16went to Fettes in Scotland,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19the poshest school in Scotland - in Edinburgh.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23And Sean Connery definitely didn't go to Fettes.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24He was a milkman.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28Fleming had the right of who would play the part and not.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31In fact, I got on extremely well with Ian.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34I mean, he was a very interesting man.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37He had such curiosity
0:04:37 > 0:04:41and his knowledge was, oh, so wide.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Terrible snob, you know,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45but he went to Eton,
0:04:46 > 0:04:48you know, so...
0:04:48 > 0:04:51And I think that explains quite a bit of that side of him.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53But...
0:04:53 > 0:04:56terrific companion.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58But I think, in the main,
0:04:58 > 0:05:00he wanted somebody unknown...
0:05:02 > 0:05:06..that they would not overshadow the character of James Bond.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09'Dr No was a worldwide hit
0:05:09 > 0:05:11'and make Sean a star.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13'Even the snobby Fleming was convinced,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16'rewriting Bond's back story, to make him half Scottish.'
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Minnows pretending they're whales.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Just like you on this island, Dr No.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23It depends, Mr Bond,
0:05:23 > 0:05:24on which side the glass you are.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30A medium dry martini, lemon peel, shaken not stirred.
0:05:30 > 0:05:31- Vodka?- Of course.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35The way that he played that part
0:05:35 > 0:05:38gave that a ground for the rest of the franchise.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40I think, if it had started off with anybody else,
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I think it would have been very unlikely had it lasted
0:05:43 > 0:05:46- as long as it has.- He created James Bond as a character.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Other guys tried to emulate it,
0:05:48 > 0:05:50but nobody could, as far as I'm concerned.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52I was a boy, 1964...
0:05:53 > 0:05:56..fresh off the plane from Ireland.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00My mother and father took me to see Goldfinger,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Putney High Street
0:06:02 > 0:06:04and I was enraptured.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Do you expect me to talk?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!
0:06:14 > 0:06:16He thinks he's going to lose his goolies, man.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18And you think is going to lose them
0:06:18 > 0:06:21and there's nothing mistaking that look in his face when he's...
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Even when he says, "You expect me to talk?" He doesn't know.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27'I watched a lot of Bond movies when I was growing up,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30'but most Christmases.' I started watching them
0:06:30 > 0:06:34when I was very young. But... Yeah, I liked Goldfinger.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35That is probably my favourite one.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38I didn't quite understand what I was seeing because I was
0:06:38 > 0:06:40so green and so young...
0:06:41 > 0:06:43..and it was very sophisticated for me,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46but it was captivating.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50And the cars, you know, the gadgets, that's what really engaged me.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52You see the gear lever, here?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Now if you take the top off,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56you will find a little red button.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Whatever you do, don't touch it. - And why not?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Because you release this section of the roof
0:07:03 > 0:07:05and engage and then fire the passenger ejector seat.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Whoosh!
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Ejector seat? You're joking!
0:07:10 > 0:07:13I never joke about my work, 007.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14'Cheer up, Hugh.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19'Where would Bond have been without your wonderful inventions?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21'Probably dead.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26'Who can forget Little Nellie?
0:07:34 > 0:07:35'The pocket air supply?
0:07:37 > 0:07:38'Grappling braces?
0:07:41 > 0:07:42'The jet pack?
0:07:44 > 0:07:46'And, of course, the most inconspicuous
0:07:46 > 0:07:48'seagull-based camouflage
0:07:48 > 0:07:50'ever committed to film?'
0:07:50 > 0:07:53The cat carried it off. He carries off those suits,
0:07:53 > 0:07:54he carries off those ladies.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56You know, yeah.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Some guys can do that and some guys can't.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02James Bond is the man that knows.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04And Sean Connery had to personify that -
0:08:04 > 0:08:06the man we all wanted to be,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09credibly sure of himself, knows how to dress,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11he knows how to get off with women.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13All those things that us men crave to do.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17And Sean Connery embodied that,
0:08:17 > 0:08:18he personified that.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24'Bond is THE legendary Lothario
0:08:24 > 0:08:26'seducing women left, right and centre.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29'Sean was sexy, Bond was sexy.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31'And he knew it.'
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Men want to be him.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And women want to be wooed by him...
0:08:37 > 0:08:39..putting it politely!
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Iconic, charming...
0:08:42 > 0:08:44..good-looking bastard,
0:08:44 > 0:08:45with a twinkle in his eye.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49He just...
0:08:49 > 0:08:51had an indecent amount of sex appeal.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57'No-one knows more about Sean's sex appeal
0:08:57 > 0:08:59'than a bona fide Bond girl...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- '..or two.'- I had to fish Sean out of the water'
0:09:02 > 0:09:05because he was being chased by the sharks.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08'He had a real mischievous, kind of,'
0:09:08 > 0:09:11naughty, sexual...
0:09:11 > 0:09:13And that was what Bond, for me, was all about.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15He really was that.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Tell London I've made contact with the girl.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Well, it's not what I'd call contact.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24These were taken during a break in the filming.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- I just discovered them, actually. I'd forgotten I had them.- Fabulous.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- What is he wearing? - He's wearing dungarees.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34I mean, that is ridiculous! I've never seen him look like that.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37This is, you know, Mr Macho Man in dungarees.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39SHE GIGGLES
0:09:41 > 0:09:43That is too funny.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44EXPLOSION
0:09:47 > 0:09:48What's that?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Mr Bond?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Proof that we made the right decision.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55About what, darling?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Your place or mine.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59'I actually saved Sean from death twice.'
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Once from the sharks
0:10:01 > 0:10:03and once because he came back to my room to make love to me.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07- Well done, darling.- I know, I should get a medal for that, shouldn't I?
0:10:09 > 0:10:12'For Bond, lovers also came in handy as human shields,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16'helping him dispatch his foes with brutal efficiency.'
0:10:22 > 0:10:25'And always leaving him with the last word.'
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Positively shocking.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30I look for humour in most of the parts that I play,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33because I always think it's the most revealing factor
0:10:33 > 0:10:36of any situation or any character.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40'But Connery also gave everyone's favourite quipping super-spy
0:10:40 > 0:10:43'a scary, cynical edge.'
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Do you mind if my friend sits this one out?
0:10:45 > 0:10:46She's just dead.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Connery brought balls to it.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51I don't think he's the cat that you want to have a fight with, really.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54He has a presence and you feel it.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57You feel it in real life, you feel it at the bar with him,
0:10:57 > 0:11:01and it comes from confidence in himself.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06Connery had that edge of real violence.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08You thought, "This guy's a charmer,
0:11:08 > 0:11:11"but he could just as easily turn round and kill you."
0:11:11 > 0:11:12GUN CLICKS
0:11:13 > 0:11:16It's a Smith & Wesson.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18And you've had your six.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19GUNSHOT
0:11:19 > 0:11:22'In Dr No, Connery killed a guy for no reason.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24'He's no threat, he's no danger, but he just shoots the guy.'
0:11:24 > 0:11:27You thought, "My God, that's never happened before."
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Thunderball was a very, very nasty, violent film.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33You know, including a scene where he's snogging the woman on the beach
0:11:33 > 0:11:36and he casually turns around to fire a harpoon at someone
0:11:36 > 0:11:37and pin them to a tree.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Ugh!
0:11:42 > 0:11:44I think he got the point.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46That's very hard to pull off without looking like,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- well, a complete- BLEEP.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Sorry, I can't think of a better word!
0:11:55 > 0:11:58EXPLOSION
0:11:58 > 0:12:01GLASS SMASHING AND SCREAMS
0:12:01 > 0:12:04I still love seeing him there as he was then,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08and knowing him as he is now, and he's the same man.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10It's the same voice.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13All of us grow older,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16but Sean is still, for me...
0:12:16 > 0:12:21He was the utter James Bond to the finest degree,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23and I'm sure Fleming would have been well pleased with him.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29'Thomas Sean Connery couldn't have come from more humble beginnings.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32'Born in a working-class area of Edinburgh in 1930,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35'there weren't many opportunities around for young Sean
0:12:35 > 0:12:38'and the Navy beckoned.'
0:12:38 > 0:12:42There's a photograph of him when he was a cadet, a sea cadet -
0:12:42 > 0:12:44he's not very substantial looking.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48He's rather whey-faced. But the eyes, you look at the eyes -
0:12:48 > 0:12:53they're like a man's eyes in a wee boy's face, you know?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56And I think he had that determination.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59I couldn't wait to go to the war. That's how smart I was.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01LAUGHTER
0:13:01 > 0:13:03And then I did go
0:13:03 > 0:13:06and had no real future in it.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09'When he returned home, he began weightlifting, to impress the girls,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12'and entered the Mr Universe competition in London
0:13:12 > 0:13:16'in the early 1950s, coming a respectable third.'
0:13:16 > 0:13:19# There is nothing like a dame... #
0:13:19 > 0:13:22'While in town, he auditioned for a part
0:13:22 > 0:13:24'in the chorus line of South Pacific,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28'which was to prove a defining moment in young Sean's life.'
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Most Scottish actors start in the north and then come south.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Why did you come straight down to London?
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Well, I doubt very much if anyone in Scotland would have employed me.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39They employed me, certainly, for other jobs, but not as an actor.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42You know, I hadn't any real experience.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44'I didn't know really what I wanted to do,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47'but I was having a great time travelling on a motorbike'
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- all over the UK in a theatre show.- Yes.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54And an American, Robert Henderson, was in the play.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Suddenly he said, "Why, don't you want to be an actor?"
0:13:58 > 0:14:00And I said, "Well, I...
0:14:00 > 0:14:02"Me, an actor?"
0:14:02 > 0:14:04'Connery pursued this new-found direction
0:14:04 > 0:14:07'with characteristic tenacity. He quickly graduated
0:14:07 > 0:14:09'from small theatre roles to TV parts,
0:14:09 > 0:14:12such as the BBC adaptation of Anna Karenina.'
0:14:12 > 0:14:14You don't know the power you have, Anna Karenina.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16You think I wanted this?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Please go.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20'His big break came when Jack Palance pulled out
0:14:20 > 0:14:23'of a TV production of Requiem For A Heavyweight.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25'Connery stepped in at the last minute,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28'convincing in the role of a tough-guy bruiser.'
0:14:28 > 0:14:33He gave a terrific performance and it was a kind of national sensation.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35It wasn't recorded. It was live.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40So you had, like, an hour and a half where, if you made a balls-up,
0:14:40 > 0:14:44the balls-up went national. You know, everybody saw it.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47'Hollywood came a-calling, and Connery landed roles as diverse
0:14:47 > 0:14:50'as Disney's Darby O'Gill And The Little People,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53'starring alongside some lecherous leprechauns...'
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Kiss her. Kiss her!
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Go on, kiss her!
0:14:57 > 0:15:00'..Lana Turner's love interest, in Another Time, Another Place...'
0:15:00 > 0:15:01I love you more
0:15:01 > 0:15:04than I've ever loved anything in life.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09'..and Alfred Hitchcock's leading man in Marnie.'
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Marnie?
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Your daughter needs help, Mrs Edgar. You've got to tell her the truth.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17She has no memory of what happened that night.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19And she needs to remember everything.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21You must help her.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23'Then, of course, came Bond.'
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Arrrgh!
0:15:27 > 0:15:29'Not bad for a former milkman from Edinburgh.'
0:15:29 > 0:15:31I think Sean, to this day,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34is the same man as he was in Fountainbridge in Edinburgh.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40He's got the same voice.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43He's got the same dress sense -
0:15:43 > 0:15:47he's never going to win the best-dressed man in the world.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51And you know, he wouldn't go to somebody to get fancy clothes made.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55"What would I want to do that for? What do you need that for?"
0:15:56 > 0:15:59In that way, he hasn't changed at all.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01It grounds you. You know, working-class background
0:16:01 > 0:16:05like Connery's, like mine, it keeps your feet on the ground.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09'In 1967, Connery returned to his working-class roots,
0:16:09 > 0:16:11'coming back to Scotland to highlight the plight
0:16:11 > 0:16:14'of Govan's shipyard workers in a documentary for STV,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17'The Bowler And The Bunnet. It remains the only film
0:16:17 > 0:16:18'he has ever directed.'
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Harland and Wolff, one of the proud names
0:16:21 > 0:16:24in Clyde shipbuilding, is a graveyard.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25And there are others -
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Henderson, Simons and Lobnitz
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Blythswood, Hamilton, Inglis, Denny's of Dumbarton.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36These shipyards have gone under with millions of pounds worth of orders,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38and with some of the best workers in the world.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41There are some things you can't cure with deflation.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45The idea was to break down the barrier
0:16:45 > 0:16:48between labour and management,
0:16:48 > 0:16:50and it was way, way ahead of its time
0:16:50 > 0:16:52in the toughest place.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55'Sean himself wasn't averse to standing up to management
0:16:55 > 0:16:58'if he felt he was getting a raw deal.'
0:16:58 > 0:17:00You have a tremendous reputation
0:17:00 > 0:17:03of being a hard man over a pound note.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07LAUGHTER
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Well, you don't have to stretch it to a pound.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11LAUGHTER
0:17:11 > 0:17:14No. No, I've played golf with you. I've played golf with you, yeah.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16It could be 50p, I know that. Yeah.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20No, I just... I like fairness.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23And it's not just the money,
0:17:23 > 0:17:24it is the principle, too.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26but it is the money, as well.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- LAUGHTER - Yes.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31But you've sued nearly all the major studios.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Yeah, the only one I haven't sued is Paramount.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35LAUGHTER
0:17:35 > 0:17:37And I've worked most for them, strangely.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40I think I've done five films with them. The last six movies,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42I think five have been with Paramount.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46His agents in Hollywood - he was getting the better of them,
0:17:46 > 0:17:48even at that point. Because agents take...
0:17:48 > 0:17:52The money comes in, they take 10%, and then when they deign to,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54they send you your 90%.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57He was the first actor to get the money to come to HIM,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00and then he would deign to give them their 10%.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02And so Scots to the bone, this man!
0:18:02 > 0:18:05'He may have gained a reputation with Hollywood's money men
0:18:05 > 0:18:09'for being a tight-fisted stereotypical Scot, but back home,
0:18:09 > 0:18:11'just after filming Diamonds Are Forever,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13'he showed a different side when he created
0:18:13 > 0:18:17'the Scottish International Education Trust in 1971.'
0:18:17 > 0:18:20'I'd been asked to do another Bond film,'
0:18:20 > 0:18:23and I turned them down. I was fed up with it.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25And then I thought, well, my goodness,
0:18:25 > 0:18:29it would be a good idea for the sake of 14 weeks' work or something,
0:18:29 > 0:18:33and so I decided I would do Diamonds Are Forever,
0:18:33 > 0:18:37and I told them I'd do it on condition that the 1 million fee
0:18:37 > 0:18:40would go direct to the Trust and that would be it.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42That's how we launched it.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Sean wanted to give something back to Scotland,
0:18:44 > 0:18:49but he wanted it to go to individuals who had ambitions,
0:18:49 > 0:18:55and might not have been able to fulfil that ambition in Scotland.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59It would really be smart of the commerce industry,
0:18:59 > 0:19:03arts and whatever else, to invest in the youth,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06because after all, that's the future.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10And if you can't get them into it, where are you?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13And if any country needs the youth, it's this country,
0:19:13 > 0:19:15and I mean, Scotland.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Many of them succeeded,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20hugely successfully.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23And therefore developed as young Scots
0:19:23 > 0:19:26representing our country well.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Their roots are still here, they're now all over the world,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33delivering whatever art or skills that they have.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37I think he genuinely does want to help the Scottish people.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I think he cares deeply about Scotland.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43He never makes any noise about it. He doesn't do that.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46I love the fact that he keeps things to himself.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48He's a very proud man and decent,
0:19:48 > 0:19:52and if you're going to do some thing like charitable work, just do it.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Don't preach about it. Don't say, "I'm a wonderful person."
0:19:55 > 0:19:56And that's great.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00I have no desire to have £100 million,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02£50 million, at all.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05I know exactly what it is to be without money,
0:20:05 > 0:20:07and I know exactly what money is to me.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12And I know that, and I know
0:20:12 > 0:20:16a large percentage of myself, and I know which way I'm going.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19'Bond had made Connery a star, but he was keen to flex
0:20:19 > 0:20:22'his acting muscles along with his real ones.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25'In 1965, Sean began a fruitful collaboration
0:20:25 > 0:20:28'with the legendary director Sidney Lumet,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32'starting with The Hill, a cult classic about blind obedience
0:20:32 > 0:20:36'and punishment, set in a British Army prison in North Africa.'
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- Roberts.- Sir.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Your commanding officer gave you an order.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44He ordered you to fight.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46So you knocked his teeth out. Is that right?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Sir.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Is that all you've got to say?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Sir, it's all I want to say.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59The Hill is probably my favourite performance by Sean.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01I liked The Hill.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Well, I think The Hill was the first thing I saw
0:21:04 > 0:21:08that he did once Bond was out of the way, and it was phenomenal.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11It was terrifying. He was just wonderful in it.
0:21:11 > 0:21:16He develops a very strong character, you know,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19and it doesn't become a cliche.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21He wants me.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23And he wants you, cos you're the wrong colour.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26The rest of you he doesn't find all that interesting, yet.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28But he'll have you just the same.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31The RSM likes making toy soldiers, Williams like breaking them.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Now you all work out what you're going to do about it.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36It's the principle. It's probably how
0:21:36 > 0:21:38I got invalided out of the Navy with ulcers.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40But there is no questioning,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42otherwise it doesn't work.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45A military force, naval, whatever, doesn't work
0:21:45 > 0:21:48unless the chain of command is absolute,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51so that if somebody says something who is above you,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54you have to do it. Then you can contest it afterwards.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Of course, when it's life or death, it's a bit difficult afterwards
0:21:57 > 0:22:02if you're all dead. But that's why they make such decisive personnel.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Well, this character had a problem with that, and didn't do it,
0:22:05 > 0:22:08and then slogged the officer, and then ended up in chokey,
0:22:08 > 0:22:12which is the prison where the whole film really takes place.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15I was a good toy clockwork soldier, just like you are.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17You throw an order at me and I could pick it up
0:22:17 > 0:22:19like a dog picks up a bone.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22- On your feet, and you listen! - No, you listen!
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Three bloody years in the desert,
0:22:24 > 0:22:27three bloody years fighting and underpaid gunmen, that's all we are!
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Treason! You're talking treason!
0:22:28 > 0:22:31You get a sense of his struggle, his pain,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34his character out of that.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I mean, it could be just - you know, with another actor,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40just be running through the plot, but it wasn't.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43It became, in essence, a character piece.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46It's like a Kafka short story...
0:22:46 > 0:22:48GASPING
0:22:51 > 0:22:55..where people are forced to do this brutal, pointless activity
0:22:55 > 0:22:58until they break down, until they die.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00You know, the system really doesn't care.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03The system is, in fact, set up to destroy them.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Help me.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08'The partnership continued in 1972 with The Offence,
0:23:08 > 0:23:12'a bleak film which takes an unflinching look at paedophilia
0:23:12 > 0:23:16'and police brutality. It's hard to imagine Connery
0:23:16 > 0:23:19'being any less like Bond than he is here.'
0:23:19 > 0:23:21- HE SOBS - Help me.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Help your bloody self, will you!
0:23:28 > 0:23:31The Offence is very interesting, cos you've got these two guys
0:23:31 > 0:23:35just smashing each other to pieces, and you're constantly shifting
0:23:35 > 0:23:37as to which is the good guy and which is the bad guy.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40And we're all sort of drawn into this.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42He said it was so wonderful to get something that had
0:23:42 > 0:23:45so many different layers and so many different notes in it.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47He said it was subject matter that had to be looked at.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50It had to be investigated, and he says, "And we did."
0:23:50 > 0:23:54I think it's one of his best roles, and nobody knows too much about it.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00What you get from Sean
0:24:00 > 0:24:04is enormous confidence emanating from him,
0:24:04 > 0:24:06and masculinity.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11It's really tremendous masculinity.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14I could use other words, but I won't use them.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17But I think you understand what I mean.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19- Where'd you think you're going? - Maybe she'll talk.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Surely she's in no state...
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Once they get her into hospital, you won't get near her.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Two of my favourite films are actually The Hill
0:24:26 > 0:24:29and also The Offence, which is a fantastic, fantastic film
0:24:29 > 0:24:32that he did with another brilliant Scottish actor, Ian Bannen.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36And these films show Sean Connery's range as an actor.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Before you shout, think.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Who is there?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Who's going to come, huh?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Who's going to help?
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Your wife, after we tell her what you've done?
0:24:55 > 0:24:59The Offence shows us the corrosive effects of witnessing atrocity
0:24:59 > 0:25:04and violence and sleaze, and it shows Connery exploding, really.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09Full of a rage at the world, a rage at the dirtiness of the world.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14I wanted what he could give me.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Sitting there,
0:25:16 > 0:25:18letting me hit him.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23I wanted that.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27He knew.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30He was saying,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33like, welcome home.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Both those films had no fear.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37It went right to the heart of whatever was going on.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40And you know that's coming from Sean.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43He's had to dress up and pretend to be an Englishman
0:25:43 > 0:25:45for several years, and now he's got a chance
0:25:45 > 0:25:49to be absolutely true to what's going on inside of him.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52And both of those films were so powerful.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56'Connery's collaborations with Lumet were often critical successes,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58'but didn't bring in the big bucks.'
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I've always... I have a certain philosophy about films,
0:26:01 > 0:26:05and that is that there are the two success factors -
0:26:05 > 0:26:07there's the A stage and the B stage.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09The A stage is the film that I read -
0:26:09 > 0:26:13and I give an instance, say, of something like The Hill
0:26:13 > 0:26:15or The Offence or something like that - I read it,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18and I think it's terrific, and then I set out to make the film.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I see the film when it's completed and I think, "That's a success."
0:26:22 > 0:26:26The B stage is when the film is given over to the powers that be
0:26:26 > 0:26:29of distribution and the public's acknowledgement,
0:26:29 > 0:26:30acceptance or non-acceptance.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34Then, it can be a drastic failure,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36but it can never undo the fact
0:26:36 > 0:26:39that it's an A success in my philosophy.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42It didn't matter which part he played. He was there.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44He dominated the screen.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47I still have great memories of The Man Who Would Be King.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53'Based on a Rudyard Kipling short story,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56'this classic movie follows the travails of best pals
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, as ex-soldiers
0:27:00 > 0:27:04searching for wealth and glory in deepest, darkest Kafiristan.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06It's just a wonderful film all round.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10A fantastic script, fantastic direction, great acting.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Beautifully shot, everything.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19I mean, I think it's a superb script
0:27:19 > 0:27:21from many levels.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24It's very pleasurable dialogue,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27and satisfying to people who like words.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29And there's humour.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32And there's the scale, size -
0:27:32 > 0:27:35you know, couple of thousand army things.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38And there's action,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and in many different locations,
0:27:41 > 0:27:43throughout this country, in particular.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45CROWD SHOUTING
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- Cut. - WHISTLE BLOWS
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Him and Michael Caine - the relationship was just
0:27:50 > 0:27:52so wonderful between the two of them.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56In this picture, there is a minimum of direction
0:27:56 > 0:27:58of Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00They are the roles.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05The two parts are, I think, almost one person, actually.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10There is a tremendous relationship in the movie between Dravot,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13which is Sean Connery, and Carnehan, which is myself.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Danny, we've had this rare streak of luck. Let's quit winners, for once.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Cut and run while the running's good.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20You call it luck.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22I call it destiny.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Ha, ha!
0:28:24 > 0:28:25Pardon me, while I fall down laughing.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27HE LAUGHS
0:28:27 > 0:28:30The two of them are just... They're a marriage, you know what I mean?
0:28:30 > 0:28:32They're fantastic, those two together.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35And two nicer people you couldn't meet.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37That's what I'll always remember Sean Connery for.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Two fine actors just telling a story.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Nobody's trying to put on an accent.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46You know, Sean is Sean and Michael is Michael.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- HE LAUGHS - You know?
0:28:48 > 0:28:52I enjoy actors who are fun to be with.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Michael Caine, we have a great laugh and a rapport,
0:28:55 > 0:28:57and we used to be rolling on the floor, literally, in Morocco.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00We'll take one of your cigars apiece,
0:29:00 > 0:29:02and you shall watch us light up.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06They played it perfectly.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08That's what really makes that story work,
0:29:08 > 0:29:12is you really have to believe that they're...
0:29:12 > 0:29:15You know, they're, sort of, sucked into the whole idea
0:29:15 > 0:29:18of ruling somebody.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22Connery's character is identified as a God,
0:29:22 > 0:29:24which is then a part that he has to play,
0:29:24 > 0:29:28and being Sean Connery, he doesn't find that too much trouble.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31CHEERING AND SHOUTING
0:29:35 > 0:29:39You feel like if the real God arrived at the end of the picture,
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Connery would still be in with a chance of winning the argument.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44What about the contract?
0:29:44 > 0:29:47The contract only lasted until such time as we was kings,
0:29:47 > 0:29:49and King I've been, these months past.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51The first king here since Alexander.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55The first to wear his crown in 2,200 and...
0:29:55 > 0:29:59- 14.- ..14 years. Him.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02And now me.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07They call me his son - and I am.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09In spirit, anyway.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11He starts off as the, kind of, Tommy,
0:30:11 > 0:30:13whatever it is, you know, the soldier.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16And by the end, he becomes this, kind of, megalomaniac,
0:30:16 > 0:30:19thinking he's the king of this place,
0:30:19 > 0:30:21this man who's been sent...
0:30:21 > 0:30:24This God, basically, who's come down from on high,
0:30:24 > 0:30:26with the arrow and stuff like that, carrying it around.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29The performance is just absolutely impeccable,
0:30:29 > 0:30:32and it's a film that I've watched a lot
0:30:32 > 0:30:35and a performance that I've actually watched a lot.
0:30:35 > 0:30:36Peachey.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38I'm heartily ashamed for getting you killed,
0:30:38 > 0:30:41instead of going home rich like you deserve to,
0:30:41 > 0:30:45on account of me being so bleeding high and bloody mighty.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Can you forgive me?
0:30:50 > 0:30:52That I can,
0:30:52 > 0:30:54and that I do, Danny.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56Free and full
0:30:56 > 0:30:58and without let or hindrance.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01Everything's all right, then.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05'Connery went on to be the man who would be king again and again.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07'All that power must have gone to his head.'
0:31:07 > 0:31:09He's played a lot of kings in his time.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11You know, even just turning up briefly - it's like,
0:31:11 > 0:31:15you need a king, and he's got to make his mark in one scene
0:31:15 > 0:31:16for Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves -
0:31:16 > 0:31:19it's got to be Sean Connery, hasn't it?
0:31:19 > 0:31:21I will not allow this wedding to proceed.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23- My lord!- Unless...
0:31:24 > 0:31:26..I am allowed to give the bride away.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28- LAUGHTER - You look radiant, cousin.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31GUNFIRE
0:31:31 > 0:31:33'Sean also strutted his regal stuff
0:31:33 > 0:31:36'in Terry Gilliam's surreal sci-fi fantasy, Time Bandits.'
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Arrrgh!
0:31:45 > 0:31:47HE BELLOWS
0:31:49 > 0:31:51Arrrgh!
0:31:51 > 0:31:53When Mike Palin and I wrote Time Bandits,
0:31:53 > 0:31:56we wrote this line in there, cos there was a fight
0:31:56 > 0:31:58between a Minotaur and a Greek warrior,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01and it said, "When the Greek warrior removes his helmet,
0:32:01 > 0:32:05"it reveals that he's none other than Sean Connery OR
0:32:05 > 0:32:07"an actor of equal, but cheaper, stature."
0:32:07 > 0:32:09It was our little joke.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13In our wildest imaginations, we were never going to get Sean Connery.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20Sean turned out to be a bit of a Python fan
0:32:20 > 0:32:23and he was keen to do it and it was just extraordinary.
0:32:26 > 0:32:27Well, the gods must have given you a name.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29Oh, yeah. Kevin.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Kevin?
0:32:32 > 0:32:36Well, Kevin - here, it's yours.
0:32:36 > 0:32:41My wife did the make-up on it and she had put Sean in this
0:32:41 > 0:32:44beautiful wig, this brown wig, darkened his beard,
0:32:44 > 0:32:47so he looked like he was, you know, in his late 30s or something.
0:32:47 > 0:32:52And I remember the first night we decided to meet for dinner
0:32:52 > 0:32:54at this hotel that we were all staying at
0:32:54 > 0:32:57and I'm sitting there waiting and this sort of bald,
0:32:57 > 0:32:59white-haired guy comes in there,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02and I didn't recognise that this was the Sean Connery
0:33:02 > 0:33:03that was in our movie.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Cos in the movie, he looked so young and virile
0:33:06 > 0:33:10- and all that, and suddenly, old baldie comes in. - HE LAUGHS
0:33:10 > 0:33:14CROWD CHEERS
0:33:14 > 0:33:17He is a surrogate father to the kid in the film
0:33:17 > 0:33:22and I actually think he was thinking about his own, maybe,
0:33:22 > 0:33:25absent fatherhood, a lot of times.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27And he wanted to play a father in a film.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37Finally, he played that other great king of legend, Arthur,
0:33:37 > 0:33:40leading the Round Table, in First Knight.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43You can tell he's enjoying himself, because for once,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46he's the person with the least stupid hair in the film.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49There's Richard Gere wearing what appears to be Rod Hull's hair,
0:33:49 > 0:33:51poncing around in a tunic.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55You know, I'd love to see a series of mugshots of Connery.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58That bald dome appearing and disappearing,
0:33:58 > 0:34:01being revealed in its full shiny glory.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02Halt!
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Hats off!
0:34:04 > 0:34:08But hiding, you know, shyly underneath something else.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Underneath a hat, sometimes,
0:34:10 > 0:34:13or underneath a rather interesting toupee in Diamonds Are Forever.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17And moving with the times until the snow has fallen,
0:34:17 > 0:34:20winter has come to Sean Connery's head
0:34:20 > 0:34:25and it's dusted lightly with snow in The Name Of The Rose.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28Then, in The Hunt For Red October, a glacier moves forward,
0:34:28 > 0:34:30with this great, white quiff,
0:34:30 > 0:34:33like a kind of Arctic hillside.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35What is that on his head in The Rock?
0:34:35 > 0:34:39I think you'd need to be very highly qualified to name that object.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42I was asked a question and I had think about it the other day -
0:34:42 > 0:34:45"Why do you wear a wig? Why are you not wearing a wig now?"
0:34:45 > 0:34:48Or something. Well, first of all, it's a personal choice -
0:34:48 > 0:34:50I don't like wearing a hairpiece.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53I don't like sticking a false beard on.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56I would rather grow a beard. Unfortunately, I can't grow hair.
0:34:56 > 0:35:00'Never a vain man, Sean cared not a jot about wearing wigs,
0:35:00 > 0:35:03'or indeed donning a questionable costume, if the need arose.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06'Check out this fashion faux pas from '80s classic, Highlander.'
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Greetings.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12I am Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez,
0:35:12 > 0:35:16Chief Metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain.
0:35:16 > 0:35:17And I'm at your service.
0:35:17 > 0:35:22He's like old Dick Whittington, isn't he, somehow, in that film?
0:35:22 > 0:35:26Or as if somebody had turned Antonio Banderas's Puss In Boots
0:35:26 > 0:35:28into a middle-aged man.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31- You look like a woman, you stupid haggis.- Haggis?
0:35:31 > 0:35:33What is haggis?
0:35:33 > 0:35:37Sheep's stomach, stuffed with meat and barley.
0:35:37 > 0:35:38And what do you do with it?
0:35:38 > 0:35:40You eat it!
0:35:40 > 0:35:42How revolting!
0:35:42 > 0:35:46Some actors, I think, impose a self-limitation
0:35:46 > 0:35:49by being uncomfortable
0:35:49 > 0:35:54in a toga or a monk's habit, or whatever.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57And I think that you have to make the leap, you have to make a...
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- ..of yourself to do it. - LAUGHTER
0:36:03 > 0:36:07- And that's the most important stage to learn as an actor.- Is it?
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Yes, to make an absolute...
0:36:09 > 0:36:11of yourself. Or a...
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- ..of yourself. - LAUGHTER
0:36:13 > 0:36:16- I know you're censored here. - Not at all, we're not.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18You're free, you go for it, Sean. There's no problem at all here.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20- All right, well, being a- BLEEP.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23LAUGHTER
0:36:23 > 0:36:26- 'Well, Connery certainly doesn't mind making a- BLEEP- of himself
0:36:26 > 0:36:29'in John Boorman's acid nightmare Zardoz. To this day,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32'film scholars are still scratching their heads over this one.'
0:36:32 > 0:36:37'That's got to be the most extreme costume choice ever.'
0:36:37 > 0:36:40It's a sort of wellington boots and tiny leather jockstrap thing,
0:36:40 > 0:36:43with a huge kind of mask on the top.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46A face in the window.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50GUNSHOT
0:36:52 > 0:36:55We don't talk about Zardoz, cos come on -
0:36:55 > 0:36:59I mean, you take this extraordinary guy and you put him in a nappy.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02It's like, OK, it's fine when you're 75, 80 years old.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06That's fair enough. But not at the age he was at.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09I worship Sean Connery. I'll see anything he's in.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12But Zardoz, I remember sitting in the cinema and going, "Oh, Sean.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16"What are you doing in this, with that mankini thing on you?"
0:37:16 > 0:37:19And it was really pretty ludicrous.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22THEY SHOUT
0:37:22 > 0:37:25And he got away with it. I don't quite know how.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28There's almost a, sort of, wilfulness in Sean Connery
0:37:28 > 0:37:30to not do the obvious
0:37:30 > 0:37:33and to take on roles that other people perhaps wouldn't do.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36And you know, you could see that he was always pulling against
0:37:36 > 0:37:38being that James Bond figure
0:37:38 > 0:37:41and a lot of those came with interesting costume choices.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45It's a testament to Sir Sean's legendary pulling power
0:37:45 > 0:37:49that even a mankini and ponytail combo couldn't dull his sex appeal.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55You've been voted the sexiest man of the century, for God's sake.
0:37:55 > 0:37:56Well, they have great taste.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59LAUGHTER
0:37:59 > 0:38:02APPLAUSE
0:38:02 > 0:38:04I don't take that seriously.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Well, it's very rare, actually, Sean -
0:38:06 > 0:38:09we have a show where all four of us are sex symbols.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12- LAUGHTER - Wouldn't you say?
0:38:14 > 0:38:16How was it at Eton?
0:38:16 > 0:38:18LAUGHTER
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Men, we're sort of in awe of him.
0:38:21 > 0:38:25Women are just jelly-kneed around him.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27The voice, everything is there -
0:38:27 > 0:38:29how could you not fall for a guy like that?
0:38:29 > 0:38:33He knows he has it and knows when to turn it on,
0:38:33 > 0:38:37and when the camera says "action," you turn it on.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39For me, what's sexy about him is,
0:38:39 > 0:38:43he couldn't give a monkey's about his hair or...
0:38:43 > 0:38:44Not a vain guy.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47He didn't need vanity. He had it all.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50Vanity is the thing we hold on to when we're lacking.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52- He wasn't lacking anything. - HE LAUGHS
0:38:52 > 0:38:55He was like a giant magnet.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58The women loved him and the men envied him.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01He just has so much charisma.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03He's a proper fella.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05Big Sean's a proper geezer. He is a man.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09He has a way of looking at you - I can only talk as a man -
0:39:09 > 0:39:11where it's almost like a challenge.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14And if you're a woman, I imagine it's a bit exciting,
0:39:14 > 0:39:17because it's almost like a sexual challenge.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20His effect on women was just extraordinary.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Maybe it's just people with vaginas,
0:39:22 > 0:39:24but I wouldn't even define it as that, I think.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27It's people with vaginas and some people who don't have vaginas
0:39:27 > 0:39:29who would find him sexy.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34I'd fuck him.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Oh, my God, yes. Yes.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41'However, mere mortals should take solace in the fact
0:39:41 > 0:39:43'that even the sexiest man in the world
0:39:43 > 0:39:46'is still at a loss to understand the fairer sex.'
0:39:52 > 0:39:55I am not, I think, particularly skilled
0:39:55 > 0:39:58in understanding women.
0:39:59 > 0:40:04I don't know how many men are.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06I find...
0:40:06 > 0:40:11And, it's more often than not the case, that most of the...
0:40:11 > 0:40:14The moment the women is in any way attractive,
0:40:14 > 0:40:17then it has a sexual connotation which I suppose...
0:40:17 > 0:40:18And when you have...
0:40:18 > 0:40:21I find lots of men attractive, I like them,
0:40:21 > 0:40:25- and my preference is really for the company of men.- Mm-hm.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28But I don't have any sexual attraction to them, I don't think.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32'When most actors lose their hair or sprout even the smallest wrinkle,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35'they tend to slink off into the Hollywood half-light.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38'Not this fate for sex bomb Connery, though.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40'With age came gravitas.'
0:40:40 > 0:40:43My dear Adso, we must not allow ourselves to be influenced
0:40:43 > 0:40:46by irrational rumours of the antichrist, hm?
0:40:46 > 0:40:49Let us instead exercise our brains
0:40:49 > 0:40:52and try to solve this tantalising conundrum.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55'Roles in films like The Name Of The Rose,
0:40:55 > 0:40:59'The Russia House, and The Untouchables
0:40:59 > 0:41:01saw Connery begin one of the most creative
0:41:01 > 0:41:03and productive stages of his career.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05What are you prepared to do?
0:41:07 > 0:41:08Everything within the law.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11And then what are you prepared to do?
0:41:11 > 0:41:13There's that incredible scene and very famous scene,
0:41:13 > 0:41:17where he sits in church with Kevin Costner's character
0:41:17 > 0:41:20and lectures him on "the Chicago way",
0:41:20 > 0:41:24which basically means killing anybody who gets in your way.
0:41:24 > 0:41:25Want to get Capone?
0:41:25 > 0:41:27Here's how you get him.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30He sends one of yours to the hospital,
0:41:30 > 0:41:34you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36And that's how you get Capone.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41It's an absolutely uncompromising attitude to state power.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43If you think that right is on your side,
0:41:43 > 0:41:46absolutely anything justifies the means.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Nobody really understood
0:41:48 > 0:41:51how you were going to deal with such
0:41:51 > 0:41:55venom as the Capone regime.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58He understood how it would be done,
0:41:58 > 0:42:00but he wasn't in a position ever to do it.
0:42:03 > 0:42:04Federal officers!
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Get your hands in the air! Nobody move!
0:42:06 > 0:42:08This is a raid!
0:42:09 > 0:42:11What are you doing here?
0:42:11 > 0:42:14All this stuff is impounded.
0:42:14 > 0:42:17- You're all under arrest. - Hey, this isn't right!
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Hey, this is no good!
0:42:19 > 0:42:21You got a warrant?
0:42:21 > 0:42:22Sure, here's my warrant.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24Ugh!
0:42:25 > 0:42:27The graph, as it were, for him
0:42:27 > 0:42:31was a guy who suddenly got a chance very late,
0:42:31 > 0:42:33near retirement,
0:42:33 > 0:42:37to be a main feature player
0:42:37 > 0:42:39in turning it around.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42And so he got more and more up and up as the movie went on.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46He's going to take it to Capone, but he really pays the price for it.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53- HE CHUCKLES - Isn't that just like a wop?
0:42:55 > 0:42:57Brings a knife to a gunfight.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00He's always been willing to put himself
0:43:00 > 0:43:02in dangerous situations on film as a character.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Get out of here, you dago bastard!
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Go on, get your ass out of here!
0:43:10 > 0:43:11GUNFIRE
0:43:11 > 0:43:14And those are the films where he's really,
0:43:14 > 0:43:15really been the most successful.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19'Connery was finally recognised by the Academy in 1988,
0:43:19 > 0:43:22'when he won the Oscar for best supporting actor
0:43:22 > 0:43:23'for his role in The Untouchables.'
0:43:23 > 0:43:26I don't think the Oscars are any great marker, you know,
0:43:26 > 0:43:29for anybody's career, but I think it was fitting
0:43:29 > 0:43:32that Sean was given that.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35And wasn't just given it out of a lucky bag -
0:43:35 > 0:43:37you know, he got it fair and square.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39It was a great performance in The Untouchables,
0:43:39 > 0:43:41and I'm sure he's very proud of that.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Gods sake, I'd have given him an Oscar for James Bond.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47You know, from those films of the '60s,
0:43:47 > 0:43:50what other films are going to have that lasting appeal
0:43:50 > 0:43:53and what other actor is going to come in and just take over the world
0:43:53 > 0:43:57in the way that he did? That's what he should have got the Oscar for.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59Any one of the early ones.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01There are about two or three characters
0:44:01 > 0:44:03that you anchor the film to
0:44:03 > 0:44:07and his character, his police officer,
0:44:07 > 0:44:10is one of those characters.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14Without his anchoring, without the gravitas of that character,
0:44:14 > 0:44:16in the writing and in his performance,
0:44:16 > 0:44:20you don't have the backbone to hold that film together.
0:44:20 > 0:44:22Absolutely deserved it.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25The Untouchables, you know, where he plays an Irish cop,
0:44:25 > 0:44:29and as far as I remember, his only concession to being Irish
0:44:29 > 0:44:30is when he says...
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Oh, Jaysus.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34- HE LAUGHS - That's it.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36The rest of it is just Sean Connery.
0:44:36 > 0:44:41I said that you're a lying member of a no-good race.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46It's much better than you, you stinking Irish pig.
0:44:48 > 0:44:49Oh, I like him.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Yeah, I like him, too.
0:44:56 > 0:44:59You just joined the Treasury Department, son.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02'Connery never felt the need to change that iconic voice of his
0:45:02 > 0:45:05'for any role, be it futuristic space sheriff...'
0:45:05 > 0:45:07I'd like it really soon,
0:45:07 > 0:45:09or I just might kick your nasty arse all over this room.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11'..Russian submarine captain...'
0:45:11 > 0:45:14Once more, we play our dangerous game.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19A game of chess against our old adversary,
0:45:19 > 0:45:21the American Navy.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23'..or Egyptian immortal.'
0:45:23 > 0:45:26Let yourself feel the stag.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28- What are we doing here?! - HE LAUGHS
0:45:28 > 0:45:32I mean, this was beyond outrageousness.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33This is ridiculous.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37You've got a French-Swiss guy pretending to be Scottish,
0:45:37 > 0:45:40and the ultimate Scotsman pretending to be an Egyptian.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45I don't know whose idea this was. And somehow, you go along with it.
0:45:45 > 0:45:46If you're going to hire Sean Connery,
0:45:46 > 0:45:48you want Sean Connery to turn up.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52I mean, that's the great thing about stars is, every great star,
0:45:52 > 0:45:56they are themselves. "OK, I'm a Russian submarine commander,
0:45:56 > 0:45:58"but I'm also Sean Connery, so I'm going to be
0:45:58 > 0:46:00"a Scottish Russian submarine commander."
0:46:00 > 0:46:03ROUSING SINGING
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Let them sing.
0:46:10 > 0:46:14I somewhat do the same myself and I've taken a leaf out of his book.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Don't do accents.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18- Just... - HE LAUGHS
0:46:18 > 0:46:20Just be yourself.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22I'm sure, from time to time,
0:46:22 > 0:46:25it must have been a frustration for directors.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31Wanting him to be more than he was
0:46:31 > 0:46:33or more the character.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35But Sean wanted to play that character,
0:46:35 > 0:46:40but he wouldn't have put on a fancy accent to do it.
0:46:40 > 0:46:41And it worked.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44- IMITATING SEAN CONNERY: - The voice, it boomed out like that,
0:46:44 > 0:46:46and he's just... No, I can't do it.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49- That was Irish, I think. - HE LAUGHS
0:46:51 > 0:46:53- IMITATING SEAN CONNERY: - "Splendid, Moneypenny."
0:46:53 > 0:46:55"Give them a big Swiss kiss.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57"It's the same as a French kiss, only you yodel."
0:46:57 > 0:47:00It'sh like thish, isn't it?
0:47:00 > 0:47:01"The name's Bond. James Bond."
0:47:01 > 0:47:03"Girlfriend? You?"
0:47:03 > 0:47:05Yeah, he... Yeah.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07HE LAUGHS
0:47:07 > 0:47:10- I can't- BLEEP- do that. No, I can't do that, man.
0:47:10 > 0:47:11- HE LAUGHS - No, I can't do that.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14No, you're not going to embarrass me that way.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16- Oh, you've already got it, don't you? - HE LAUGHS
0:47:16 > 0:47:19I can't do the Sean Connery accent. No, I can't do that.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Not even going to attempt it, either, no.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24- I can't. - HE LAUGHS
0:47:24 > 0:47:27No, I don't do an impression of Sean. I can't do Sean Connery.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Only Sean Connery can do Sean Connery.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32My character of Swiss Toni
0:47:32 > 0:47:36was meant to be an impersonation of Sean Connery,
0:47:36 > 0:47:39because Sean Connery is the guy, you know, the ultimate guy,
0:47:39 > 0:47:41which is what Swiss Toni wishes he was.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45Putting up a tent is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.
0:47:45 > 0:47:46LAUGHTER
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Unzip the door, put up your pole
0:47:49 > 0:47:51and slip into the old bag.
0:47:51 > 0:47:52LAUGHTER
0:47:52 > 0:47:57I could never want to lose the sound,
0:47:57 > 0:48:00the music, of what Scottish speaking is.
0:48:00 > 0:48:04And of course, what you've never done in movies is change your voice.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06- That's right. - In every part you played...
0:48:06 > 0:48:08Because the emotion should be the same, internationally.
0:48:08 > 0:48:09- That's what I believe.- Right.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12A Russian is the same as a Scottish
0:48:12 > 0:48:15is the same as an Irish or a Pole.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17- Even the English. - LAUGHTER
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Every single time he speaks in a film,
0:48:19 > 0:48:21it's like the tag line for the film.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23You know, so if it's, "So is it tea or coffee?"
0:48:23 > 0:48:25You go, "Oh, mate, it's going to be the film with,
0:48:25 > 0:48:27'So is it tea or coffee?'"
0:48:28 > 0:48:29Welcome to The Rock.
0:48:29 > 0:48:34His voice is absolutely iconic and it brings all the legacy
0:48:34 > 0:48:38of who he is and what you feel about him the second you hear it.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41The sensation you're feeling
0:48:41 > 0:48:43is the Quickening.
0:48:43 > 0:48:46It's such a great instrument.
0:48:46 > 0:48:48It's almost like part of his armour.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50Like, "How are you today?"
0:48:50 > 0:48:53I wouldn't dare try and do his voice, but it's kind of like,
0:48:53 > 0:48:56when he's talking to you, he's actually talking to you.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58I want a suite,
0:48:58 > 0:49:00a shower, a shave
0:49:00 > 0:49:02and the feel of a suit.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05I loved his voice. I mean, it was, sort of, like...
0:49:05 > 0:49:07- It fitted his body.- Yeah.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09I mean, it came from...
0:49:09 > 0:49:12You know, it was, sort of, like, "Hear me roar."
0:49:12 > 0:49:15- THEY LAUGH - Really.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17WHY?!
0:49:17 > 0:49:20To me, the fact that he was mostly always Scottish
0:49:20 > 0:49:23didn't really bother me, because if you look at American actors,
0:49:23 > 0:49:25American actors are always American,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28and yet no-one ever says about them
0:49:28 > 0:49:30that they can only do American.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32He's from Scotland. It doesn't matter.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34I think it was very brave of Sean Connery to do that,
0:49:34 > 0:49:38to use his Scottish accent and not go down that road of, you know,
0:49:38 > 0:49:42you have to be English or speak American. He was Scots.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45His voice, his accent, was so fantastic. Why would you lose it?
0:49:45 > 0:49:49There was nothing wrong with Indiana Jones having a Scottish father.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52It's perfectly OK. That's the great thing about America
0:49:52 > 0:49:55is that it's a melting pot and so you could have him be anything.
0:50:00 > 0:50:01Junior!
0:50:03 > 0:50:04Yes, sir.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06It is you, Junior!
0:50:06 > 0:50:09George Lucas has a great input,
0:50:09 > 0:50:11especially on these movies,
0:50:11 > 0:50:13because he is top banana.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15I was not crazy to have Sean.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Steve was the one that pushed for Sean very hard.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20People said, "Oh, you're making a movie?
0:50:20 > 0:50:22"Is this Indiana Jones meets James Bond?"
0:50:22 > 0:50:24And I said, "No, nothing of the sort.
0:50:24 > 0:50:28"This is Indiana Jones meets the strongest father alive."
0:50:28 > 0:50:32Who else could possibly play Indiana Jones's father,
0:50:32 > 0:50:36except someone with the charisma
0:50:36 > 0:50:41and the, kind of, you know, strong presence as Sean Connery has shown.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44That's one of those where he actually had the right instinct,
0:50:44 > 0:50:47and you know, it turned out spectacular.
0:50:47 > 0:50:52The epic proportions of it, the fun of it...
0:50:52 > 0:50:53It's got a lot of style, I think,
0:50:53 > 0:50:56and I like the idea of
0:50:56 > 0:51:00being the older guy, having done a lot of it
0:51:00 > 0:51:03in the earlier days with the Bond films.
0:51:03 > 0:51:0511 o'clock!
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Dad, 11 o'clock!
0:51:09 > 0:51:11What happens at 11 o'clock?
0:51:11 > 0:51:1312, 11, 10!
0:51:13 > 0:51:1511 o'clock, fire!
0:51:16 > 0:51:18GUNFIRE
0:51:21 > 0:51:25He was always very much the active father, shall we say.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27You know, there were always
0:51:27 > 0:51:29scenes in those films where he was given
0:51:29 > 0:51:31physical stuff to do and action stuff to do,
0:51:31 > 0:51:35and could do it very well. Even if it's just opening an umbrella.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40HE CLUCKS
0:51:40 > 0:51:43BIRDS SQUAWK
0:51:45 > 0:51:48- GUNFIRE - Arrrrgh!
0:51:50 > 0:51:52CRASH
0:51:52 > 0:51:55Steven was the only one of all the directors I've worked with,
0:51:55 > 0:51:58and I've worked with many, who actually recognised
0:51:58 > 0:52:03one's busybody input, you know, on a film.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06The amount of... I, sort of, put myself about too much, I think,
0:52:06 > 0:52:09in all the different departments.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12But I always think for good cause and reason.
0:52:12 > 0:52:16And he recognised it rather early,
0:52:16 > 0:52:18before we even got to shooting.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21- You made sure he recognised it. - Yes, that's right.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24Drew his attention to it. No, but he really was.
0:52:24 > 0:52:28He was fantastic to work with and as I say, recognising, which is...
0:52:28 > 0:52:33It's not a common habit
0:52:33 > 0:52:35with directors.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38I've talked to some other directors, "He's really difficult."
0:52:38 > 0:52:40But I think it's really the quality of the director
0:52:40 > 0:52:43that brings out the quality in Sean.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46Working with him was quite amazing,
0:52:46 > 0:52:50because we hadn't really spent any time in advance -
0:52:50 > 0:52:52I think we had one meeting, and just talked about things.
0:52:52 > 0:52:57And he had some really interesting ideas that at the time I dismissed,
0:52:57 > 0:53:00- but actually saved my ass later on. - HE LAUGHS
0:53:00 > 0:53:04I like...enthusiasm.
0:53:04 > 0:53:09I loathe stupidity and incompetence.
0:53:09 > 0:53:15He doesn't take to people that are full of BS at all.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18You know, if you're interesting, he'll be interested.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21If you're just, sort of, chattering away,
0:53:21 > 0:53:26he's not that interested and he can be a little, um, direct about it.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28The great pleasure, I think,
0:53:28 > 0:53:31is a unit of real pros who know what they're doing
0:53:31 > 0:53:34or know what they're trying to do. You know, they can make cock-ups
0:53:34 > 0:53:38and what have you, because enthusiasm breeds that.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40But that's totally acceptable in my book.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42And I think that's the real pleasure,
0:53:42 > 0:53:45if you've worked with a real good unit of actors
0:53:45 > 0:53:48and actresses, with good crew.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50And it's terrific.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52- Elsa!- That's far enough.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Put down the gun, Dr Jones. Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58- But she's one of them!- Indy, please!
0:53:58 > 0:54:00- She's a Nazi.- What?!
0:54:00 > 0:54:02- Trust me.- Indy, no!- I will kill her.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05- Go ahead.- No! Don't shoot!
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Don't worry, he won't.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09He's not just a stuffy old dad.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11One of the key plot points in it
0:54:11 > 0:54:15is they have both slept with the same Nazi agent.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18And so, you've got to have someone who can pull off that you think,
0:54:18 > 0:54:21yeah, you know, he's still got to be sexy at that age,
0:54:21 > 0:54:24even with a grey beard and a funny little tweed hat.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26How did you know she was a Nazi?
0:54:26 > 0:54:28She talks in her sleep.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37Well, he's James Bond. He would have slept with everybody, of course.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Sean was much funnier than I expected he would be.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43He was great as an old man
0:54:43 > 0:54:47and the chemistry between the two of them was fantastic.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58'The pair sold the father-son dynamic,
0:54:58 > 0:55:02'despite Connery being only 12 years older than Ford.'
0:55:03 > 0:55:06I thought I'd lost you, boy!
0:55:08 > 0:55:10I thought you had, too, Sir.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16'Testament to his skill, appeal and star power,
0:55:16 > 0:55:19'Connery kept working solidly through the next decade.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22'He was an action hero up until his very last role
0:55:22 > 0:55:24'in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
0:55:24 > 0:55:28'before finally deciding to retire from the movie business in 2003.'
0:55:28 > 0:55:30Sit down, you buffoon!
0:55:30 > 0:55:33He had that great skill of knowing when to stop,
0:55:33 > 0:55:36knowing when to retire,
0:55:36 > 0:55:38and he's never gone back.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41And he even doesn't, for example,
0:55:41 > 0:55:44take on filming like this documentary.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47He just doesn't want to do it any more.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49And that's fine with me.
0:55:49 > 0:55:53I think you can see his legacy in all the Scottish stars
0:55:53 > 0:55:55that are around just now.
0:55:55 > 0:55:59I don't think they would have got the opportunity to be who they are,
0:55:59 > 0:56:03to be Scottish and be leading men, if it wasn't for him.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05He was a trailblazer, really, for Scots actors.
0:56:05 > 0:56:07There's no doubt about that.
0:56:07 > 0:56:10He's an icon for us Scots.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13Not just actors, but all Scots, I think.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16People look up to him and go, "Sean Connery.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19"Amazing man. You know, an amazing career."
0:56:19 > 0:56:22Before Connery, Scottish actors tended to be cast
0:56:22 > 0:56:24as wee, kind of, pawky Scots,
0:56:24 > 0:56:27you know, wee character actors in supporting roles.
0:56:27 > 0:56:30And then, after Connery,
0:56:30 > 0:56:32we began to get the bigger roles,
0:56:32 > 0:56:35because he had made the Scots accent popular.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37He had made it very sexy.
0:56:37 > 0:56:40I think he's been Scotland's greatest superstar.
0:56:40 > 0:56:44I can think of anybody who's been bigger or is bigger
0:56:44 > 0:56:47than Sean Connery, on a global basis.
0:56:47 > 0:56:51For anyone, anyone, to have that kind of longevity is astonishing.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53You know, to go from the '50s through to now -
0:56:53 > 0:56:55he's in his seventh decade.
0:56:55 > 0:56:56That's astonishing for anybody,
0:56:56 > 0:56:58regardless of whether he's Scottish or not.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01It's incredible and the fact that he is Scottish
0:57:01 > 0:57:03is something that we should be proud of, for sure.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05Bond.
0:57:06 > 0:57:07James Bond.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10I think he's probably the last Hollywood star.
0:57:10 > 0:57:14I think he'll be remembered as one of the great actors of our time.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18He sends one of yours to the hospital,
0:57:18 > 0:57:19you send one of his to the morgue.
0:57:19 > 0:57:21That's the Chicago way.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24He was a very good actor. A very fine actor.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27I mean, he played to his own strengths, he knew who he was.
0:57:27 > 0:57:29Greetings!
0:57:29 > 0:57:30It's the X factor.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33If you knew what that was, you'd be a rich man.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35- Tell us, Sean. - HE LAUGHS
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Give me a ping, Vasili.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39One ping only, please.
0:57:39 > 0:57:43He's one of the all-time greats.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45For me, Sean Connery's a friend.
0:57:45 > 0:57:50I know he's a superstar out there, but when we're together,
0:57:50 > 0:57:53there's no element of that.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55He's missed, cos he's not working.
0:57:55 > 0:57:57He should get off his ass and do another film.
0:57:57 > 0:58:01- Who knows which way the wind blows? - LAUGHTER
0:58:01 > 0:58:04- Sean Connery, thank you very much indeed.- Thank you.
0:58:04 > 0:58:07APPLAUSE
0:58:28 > 0:58:30That was very nice.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32Thank you, Caine.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34It was my pleasure, my friend.
0:58:34 > 0:58:36Happy birthday to you.
0:58:36 > 0:58:38Thanks.
0:58:38 > 0:58:40Now, I've not forgotten.
0:58:40 > 0:58:43You owe me a chicken bucket, Caine!