Sean Connery Retires

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Never say never, but Connery ends career

TOBY MCDONALD AND JEREMY WATSON


IT IS a decision that will horrify his legion of worldwide fans and leave grown women in tears.

Scottish screen legend Sir Sean Connery has almost drawn the curtain on his long and glittering career by revealing it would take a Mafia-style "offer he couldn't refuse" to tempt him to make another film.

At the age of 74, Connery still manages to be Britain's highest-paid actor, commanding up to ‚£10m per movie. But his three-year absence from the industry has prompted questions about whether the Scots star has decided to retire after half a century in Hollywood and 77 films.

Now, Connery has provided the answer. In an interview with a New Zealand newspaper, the actor says he has no time for the "idiots" now making films in Hollywood.

He has also revealed for the first time why he has pulled out of co-operating on an autobiography on his astonishing transformation from Edinburgh milkboy to global icon and the world's "sexiest" actor. Although the book was forecast to be a huge best-seller - earning Connery a fortune in the process - the ghost-writer chosen by the publisher wanted to delve too deeply into his private life.

Connery chose acting as a career in the 1950s after spells as a coffin polisher and male model and is still best known for his portrayal of Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.

Although he will never say never, Connery blames the current generation of executives running the big Hollywood studios for his reluctance to step back into Tinseltown.

"I'm fed up with the idiots ... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies," Connery says.

Whole story at:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/en ... 1707662005

[Messor]

He's one of my favorite actors, but i think he will change his decision, when the filmmoguls gives him a 20 million dollars bid.

[bd55]

Don't know, he must already have plenty of millions. And good thing, better to retire while he still is at the top. He'll retire a legend.

[Lost Ghost]

I agree....movies today just don't got it.