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What is Sean Connery up to?
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:52 pm
He just came to mind while I was reading an article and I noticed it's been awhile since I saw him in a movie. I decided to hop on his IMDB page and apparently the last movie he made was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen way back in 2003. Has he just given up acting? I know the movie wasn't well received, but didn't realize it was awful enough to make him completely quit his craft.
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Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:54 pm to thatoneguy
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the last movie he made was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Has he just given up acting?
You do the math.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:56 pm to thatoneguy
Dude will be 90 years old next year; was 73 when he made LXG.
Probably just enjoying his golden years.
Probably just enjoying his golden years.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:56 pm to thatoneguy
"According to Michael Cain, “The movie business retired him because he didn't want to play small parts about old men and they weren't offering him any young parts in romantic leads.”"
He's 89 now BTW.
He's 89 now BTW.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:58 pm to thatoneguy
Enjoying retirement at 89.
I’m more surprised he never got into any directing after League.
I’m more surprised he never got into any directing after League.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:59 pm to Tigris
Didn't he pass on Gandalf?
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:00 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Didn't he pass on Gandalf?
yes and lost like $100M so that's why he picked the next fantasy-ish script thrown his way, which was LOEG, which tanked and he quit acting
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:09 pm to Tigris
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they weren't offering him any young parts in romantic leads.”"
Yeah, they really blackballed him.
It was bad enough when he did Entrapment and he was 70 years old to his love interest (Catherine Zeta-Jones at 30 years old.)
It was worse than Sabrina with 55 year old Bogey and 25 year old Audrey Hepburn.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:12 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Didn't he pass on Gandalf?
Glad he did "We musht protect the Hobbitsh from Shauron."
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:14 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I had to look it up but Sean Connery in fact did pass on the role of Gandalf, and it cost him around $450 million.
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While Connery has never before revealed that he was offered the role as Gandalf, he has now admitted that he “never understood the script”, adding: “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it. Ian McKellen, I believe, is marvellous in it.”
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:27 pm to thatoneguy
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:29 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
He’s retired and living in the Bahamas.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:30 pm to thatoneguy
Besides James Bond, he was amazing in Last Crusade and Red October.
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:48 pm to thatoneguy
Hes locked away in a cell
Posted on 10/14/19 at 4:51 pm to thatoneguy
your best? loser's always whine about their best, winners go home and frick the prom queen
Posted on 10/14/19 at 5:49 pm to thatoneguy
I think it can be safely said that he's retired from acting.
ETA: It's really sad that screen legends such as Gene Hackman and Sean Connery ended their careers with such stinker movies. Welcome to Mooseport and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen shouldn't have been how those two men left the business.
ETA: It's really sad that screen legends such as Gene Hackman and Sean Connery ended their careers with such stinker movies. Welcome to Mooseport and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen shouldn't have been how those two men left the business.
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 10/14/19 at 6:30 pm to thatoneguy
He's retired and he lives in the Bahamas.
ETA:
Didn't see your comment, my dude.
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Michael T. Tiger
Didn't see your comment, my dude.
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 10/14/19 at 7:16 pm to RollTide1987
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ETA: It's really sad that screen legends such as Gene Hackman and Sean Connery ended their careers with such stinker movies. Welcome to Mooseport and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen shouldn't have been how those two men left the business.
Muhammed Ali's last fight was against nobody Trevor Berbick. Sugar Ray Robinson, widely regards as the best boxer of all time, lost his last fight to Joey Archer. Vince Lombardi came back to coach Washington a couple of years after his amazing run at Green Bay and managed a lackluster 7-5-2 record there.
When you are really great you tend to hang around a couple of fights, or a couple of seasons, or a couple of movies too long.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 7:25 pm to Arksulli
Trevor Berbick isn’t quite the nobody you imply. 49-11-1 and a WBC Heavyweight champ, though he tends to be more known as “the guy Tyson beat to win his first title.”
As far as actors go, I can’t think of anyone who retired on top who didn’t do so because they died.
No one walks away while they are winning because that is leaving money on the table.
As far as actors go, I can’t think of anyone who retired on top who didn’t do so because they died.
No one walks away while they are winning because that is leaving money on the table.
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