I remember one time I was in the launderette waiting for my underwear to dry and Sean walked in to check on the kilts he was washing. We sat and chatted and laughed until his kilts were clean. He even showed me the real Scottish way of wearing a kilt and we laughed some more. On his way out he turned and said to me, "John" - for that is my name - "don't ever let the bastards grind you down. Fight to your final breath", and I've lived by those words ever since. Wonderful man.

christine - wow being hit on by Sean Connery the real James Bond. That must of be a divine moment.

@@UncompressedWAVmusic well, it was a more fatherly approach. We were sitting in a corner of Frankfurt Airport during a massive flight delay due to a bomb scare. He saw the book I read and remarked he had too and that it was a good one. He had a beard and I didn't recognize him straight away, when I did and asked him why he is not in the VIP lounge, he laughed and that broke the ice. He was on his way to his home and wife.

@fartsniffer is my name fartsniffing is my game at the time it never even entered my mind!

@@christinestotzel2671 Interesting story, thanks for sharing a down to earth story of one of my heros since the 1960s. He may not of hit on you however he was motivated to talk with you and laugh with you. That is beautiful.

Yes i know. it seems WW 2 veterans had a certain zest for life that might never be duplicated, BOO HOO (My parents were both Vets in WW 2) still argue will them in my dreams LOL!

@@geraldo6205 absolutely no disrespect intended, but hope it will come around again. Men can be men again if they have help to stare down the darkness.

Sean Connery Wikipedia

Notice the immense difference in attention span.....I guess some podcasts still have a comparable thoroughness.

Sums it up perfectly.

You forgot to mention that he was violent / abusive

@@ElvarMasson Tell me how

@UCses35Xd7mshJcOENnCnYPw I'm expecting you to say he done an interview where he says that he sometimes wants to hit a woman but he'd never do it. And then for you to take it out of context and say he beats women

@@aaronflynndevereux1832 Not now. He did (past sentence, because he´s dead). Here´s Sean Connery the sexist; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pc9mnJVyqLiyZ3U.html

Sean hated Tories. He did a lot of work for Scottish labour workers, made documentaries on Scotland's labour force and pumped huge amounts of money into his education trust foundation for children in poverty, which he established. He was also fairly politically active in Scotland but kept his work largely to himself. I only just learned recently that he donated his entire pay-cheque for Diamonds Are Forever to the foundation, as well as his entire $250,000 salary for his small role in Robin Hood and millions more from other earnings, including from doing Never Say Never Again. I always assumed he was just greedy demanding higher pay for Bond and other later roles, but it turns out he was just getting as much as he possibly could out of gangsterish Hollywood producers to pump into good causes.

@@AD-kv9kj my old told me about this .His view was that he did it discreetly with noble modesty .My good auld da is a braw man .Heart of a lion and good as gold .Well read .This light hearted conversation always stuck in my head .Good Scots have a democratic socialist outlook .....ie when does having billions actually become weird and vulgar. ..

Yeah, we could've used Sean now, couldn't we?

90 what a legend

God Bless The Best James Bond Ever,

One of the last real men

and Johnson has his hair combed

@@Rony2453 omw :-) Did you see him in Parliament the other day ?

@@Rony2453 grow up ffs

I wonder what johnson talked about. Being privileged and little else

Certainly one of a kind and truly of his generation. It'd be hard for such a man to exist the same way nowadays.

I’m 26 and I love the old bond films. Connery is a legend!

I think borris was star struck.

Sean Connery is the one and only James Bond! The rest are all impostors especially the current bland blonde Bond who is Bourne wannabe.

@@jmcasas17 The current bond movies rely a lot more on computer and other special effects vs. the original Sean Connery Bond movies are more based on the character and charisma of Sean himself. Nothing is better than the original movies.

He wasn’t bald then

I was thinking that 🤣🤣🤣

He messes his hair up on purpose.

@@sabbracadabra8367 Of course he does - that touseled look is pure affectation.

Oh, man!! How I cringe at his hair!!! He wants us to take him seriously as PM but he looks like he doesn't care what he looks like. Doesn't help that the camera angle in the House of Commons seems pointed more to the top-middle of his head than his face.

As long as she dosent let go of the argument then slap! But seriously mey they rest in peace ✌ 🙏

If they didn’t meet up in this world I doubt they will afterwards 😂

This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. God bless. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLmSeqqauMuXg2w.html

Doubt that somehow

@ hahahaha

Somehow thats awesome

Yes, a Scottish working lad is a natural Etonian. Did you watch the interview?

@@tzenophile Natural Etonian?, who is a natural Etonian?.

@@PO3TRYN3NTROPY Someone who put on a tux and, being himself, doesn't have to pretend to be educated at Eton, you know, because. I was being ironic. The question at the end should have given it away, but I hail your natural (sorry!) instincts against the phrase.

as if. Any Scotsman with manners could have done the role magnificently.

Really? I’ve always just seen him really rude to fans and stuff. I know he valued his privacy. We’re you introduced? What did u talk about?...

did he slap you

I'm glad you met him when he was.

@@Reuben_95 probs cos people are pushy and dont respect privacy

@@pepeknamornik9283 hed only be so lucky

And taking down Al Capone.

Not to mention The man who would be king.

And don't forget a franciscan monk that solves crimes like Sherlock.

Well, I give you that, but apart from Bond, Capone, Peachy's mate and Trooper Roberts, what other --- ahem.

Dont forget he robbed a train too.

But in that role as the kind King - it must have been a great treat for the pythons -- they didn't think they could ever get him during casting. And his role. It was so sweet. He acted as HIMSELF.

He was Agamemnon too. Time Bandits is such a brilliant film with an outstanding cast.

In 1965 I got a change of school from Sheikh primary school to Mogadishu after my father was tranfered from Burao local government as Excutive officer to the ministry of interior in Mogadishu as a director of a department. In Mogadishu first I attendended a primary in Eel Hindy where I became the second student from the North namely Somali land. I stil rember the names of my colleagues Abukar Keynan, Mohamed Wehlie, Abdiqadir Yariisow, Ducale Mohamed, Abdirashid Abdillahi, Mohamed Abdillahi etc all of which I don't have the least clue about where are they now. The syllabus from my new school was quite different from the one I had been in Sheikh town.

That's a lovely snapshot of a different era. I was likely less than one year old at the time, and shillings had well and truly turned to cents by the time I saw my first big screen movie, so I only got to see most of the older Bond movies on TV. The first newly released Bond movie I saw in a cinema wasn't until The Spy Who Loved Me (where Roger Moore filled the role well enough but his wasn't a patch on Sean Connery's 007).

Ive always said that too. NO comparison!

Or as well.

And frankly, I think the new Bond, Daniel Craig is, in his own way, even better. Certainly more in line with the character Fleming actually wrote.

THats an endless debate. Never Say Never Again stunk to high heaven. Dr. No was a little bit ridiculous. From Russia with Love was about the best bond film. The best spy films featured George Smiley, not James Bond. Dalton apparantly 'looked' the most like Fleming described, but looked a bit too much like a movie actor. But thats the problem, they all look like actors, not spies.

The Best James Bond Ever

Yep - brushed him off like the piece of dandruff that he is. At 0:46.

@@morganfisherart He didn't really. He was quite chummy, like they were old pals. Or maybe there was irony at 13:56 "you're gonna be the chief of the party" Quite prescient!!

Me too Luke, Cheers, Doug

Caught that 😂😂😂😂😂

@@morganfisherart *Yea right Bahama's 0%Tax Rate*

True true, every generation has something unique,those that have known that have to pass these on to the young generation

Of course, he would have said he was a Scot. And the future PM he was skewering would have been the Briton.

yeah, but now the modern Briton can quote the Quran!

Sean was Scottish. He’d have went mental at you if you called him a Brit. That quick wit and humour you’re talking about is the wit and humour we Scots have.

@@deanmcdougall5331 you seem upset

👏👏👏

I love that film so much

I loved that role also. And as the father of Indiana Jones. However my favorite was in Finding Forrester.

@@JamieTransNyc My favourite as well.

All of these and Capt Ramius in hunt for Red October

you should be proud of what you do, not what someone who shares your name, your address, your zip code, or your country of birth does

@@strangevisions5162 I am very proud of what I do.

Yes, he was the finest ambassador for our wee country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

​@@strangevisions5162I am proud of who I am not of what I do or what I have

@Cymro 65 "Actually no ,he's the prime minister of Northern Ireland, Scotland ,Wales and England - collectively known as Britain ." Northern Ireland isn't a part of Britain. It's part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

@Cymro 65 True

I think everyone knew Boris Johnson was going to become Prime Minister eventually. You could see it coming a mile away.

@Cymro 65 does he actually do anything involving the outside of England though? I thought Nicola Sturgeon was running Scotland and Labour were running Wales?

@Cymro 65 no the Queen has the "ultimate yey or nay" but never uses it and it appears neither does Johnson.

yes true, but he did leave us the greatest gifts of all, Decades of great Entertainment to view and take us away from are mundane lives and make us feel like we did when we were young...and those movies will stand the test of time for years to come.

This sentence, in the first Bond Dr.No, in the table on that casino. It might be the most legendary thing in movie history.

Although he deserved his fame, he's still one of the luckiest men on earth. MasterOfMyDomain.guru

Lmao oh fucking please. Brando was a pretentious hack with a serious attitude problem that made 9 pieces of unwatchable carbage for every film of his even worth watching. Had he been an actor nowadays, nobody in the industry would even spit in his general direction.

@@iliilili310 Yeah of course; ask any actor. erhh who are you?

Your right .BJ is an actor all right . ..

I Love Marlon Brandon As Actor But Sir Sean Connery Is Best James Bond Of All Time James Bond Is Ultimate Film Series Of All Time, They Wood Have Been No James Bond Atall Of All Time With Out Sean Connery,

@@iliilili310 Brando, if he concentrated on his art, was the greatest actor ever. As a human being he was horrible.

He IS the stepuncle of Tom Jones!

@ michael puvis. but he won't live in Scotland. He lived in Hollywood and Marbella.

@@normafoster1959 objection. Relevance?

@@normafoster1959 He can hardly be blamed given the government he was helped vote in...

I was actually going to say the same thing. He jabbed a little bit saying, "...Yeah, it's great. The money...." he notoriously hated that movie. But, he still handled the business end like a pro.

@@bradbiggs4283 it was a fun movie though

@@strangevisions5162 what movie?

He actually quit acting due to heart problems, that was just a common myth at the time because he did indeed hate it as well as stop acting after it.

Was awful movie. I went too the premier saw his interview. He hated it

Hopefully nothing too bad.

Pierce Brosnan also did it for me, maybe because he was the bond when i was growing up.

@@Koen030NL that does seem to be the case. Each generation tends to like the current bond. Mine was Connery. Loved Roger Moore as well.

@@Its.My.Life. 007 will become a female of color. James Bond is either killed or retires and the 007 designation is given to a colored female. Parts of the script have been outed for a few months now.

@@Its.My.Life. ...the rights to the James Bond film franchise are owned by Barbara Broccoli not Ian Fleming. Wait and see. Pal.

Funny you say this, because in Skyfall, they originally asked him to play the estate keeper of Skyfall in the movie.

i take it youre a loopy leftie who thinks everyone right wing is a "fascist nazi" hahaahha

@@richardjones3792 I’m not a lefty in the slightest. Both left and right annoy me. Also, I never said Johnson was a facist, I just think he is an idiot who shouldn’t be PM. And I’m glad Connery saw that from a mile off.

@@CASM-ze7lb I agree, Boris Johnson is a lying incompetent 🤡

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@@thomasjones2415 I agree totally Sean Connery was the most popular Scottish men of all time. He was awarded the highest honour in Scotland before he died. He refused to give up his Scottish accent. What a great man.

So proud of Sir Sean Connery.A great Scotsman and Independence supporter.RIP.

Love the comment; so understated it speaks volumes

Russell crowe is the same, he much more mellow now

Loved it :-)

TRUE 👍

Come on, Ricky ain’t that bad🤔

Oh really. And how has he done that then? Or maybe (just saying like) he has had to do things because of a global pandemic. People like you crack me up. its very easy to write as you did but we never get the full picture let alone facts.

It doesn't look like boris had an answer to someone of Connery's stature and ability, charisma and delivery. Connery's honesty and self awareness played a large part in that ability and they are characteristics boris would do well to acquire before he destroys the nation of Britain along with his paymaster mates in corporations. I don't hold out much hope in that regard from what I've witnessed publicly of boris' moral heft.

@@1chish trying to defend buffoons you've never met on the internet is embarrassing. Stand on your own two feet, lose the lapdog mentality, just behave in a civil way.

@@FlourescentPotato It may well be your opinion someone is a 'buffoon'. However others hold a different PoV and are equally entitled to do so. And (God Forbid) say so in the t'interweb! I never defended anyone Spud. I asked some random internet writer a simple question and postulated another. So the only embarrassment here is your fabrication. And you can go shove the lecturing, superior attitude you plank. I was entirely civil and as I hope my reply shows I WILL stand on my own two feet. Especially against righteous idiots like you.

@@brianwheeldon4643 Well thank your for that Far Left observation. Not that it had any relevance given the date of the programme. Why would or should Boris 'have had an answer'? What part of 'he was a guest not the interviewer' don't you quite understand? Boris, in 2003, was a new, but highly popular MP for Henley, the Editor of the Spectator and the author of more than one book. It was why he was on that programme. He had his own credentials. The fact he deferred to a great actor and behaved with impeccable manners would, to normal people, be a good thing. However to people like you who look for every event to copy / paste the usual Momentum crap, it is somehow a fault. ..............................smh.

I prefer: "I'm gonna show Mary the rest." 😁

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'Quails eggs". "Quialsh's eggsh"

007 took his time being born then!

How's nobody mentioning this in the comments? The damn prophet!

Bryan I noticed that in the very ending of the interview. Boris was speechless. That was a great compliment.

@@radimnechut519 yes at 13:55 - Bryan I noticed that near the ending of the interview. Sean said to Boris, "I hope you're going to be the chief of the party".Boris was speechless. That was a great compliment.

@@UncompressedWAVmusic are yu being sarcastic, was Sean?

it's possible Connery considered Johnson a total cunt liable to mess up anything he'd touch. And so it was likely with utmost sincerity he wished for Boris Johnson to become chief and thus positioned to touch the Tories up real good. That Boris Johnson as party leader would also become prime minister and able to work his special magic with an entire nation was probably an unforeseen consequence as far as Mr. Connery was concerned.

All excellent choices! I’d add James Earl Jones to your list and make it a top four. 😉👍

He couldn't have cared less, I imagine.

He does actually say "you're going to be the leader of the party"

Thomas Sean Connery, what a great man?! We miss this gent and patriot. I raise a glass to Sir Sean.

"A Scotsman will do anything for his country, apart from live in it".

I MET HIM DOING DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER AND I COULD DO HIS VOICE IN 14 SECONDS ,AND ALSO MET MR. BRUCE GLOVER , STILL IN TOUCH 50 YEARS IN A COUPLE MONTHS

He had the sense to give Crystal Skull a miss xD

It might have also been because after Diamonds Are Forever, he vowed never to play Bond again and then did in 1983. That is why the film is called "Never Say Never Again" and the title is officially credited to his wife, who told him never to say never to things.

I read in one of the memorial articles that he was close to signing on to a Brett Ratner film called Josiah’s Canon, but Ratner stood Connery up for a script meeting. Connery was already irritated when his inquiry to Ratner on how he planned to shoot the movie was "Movie Magic" the day before. He called Ratner's people quite pissed when he didn't show and while on the phone with them saw Ratner on TV in the audience of the French Open and quit right there. Connery retired soon after. He did say the one film he would come back for was another Indiana Jones film. I wonder if he just wasn't in the best of health by then and in a classy way just said retirement was too much fun.