# Sean Connery is 90 today (August 25 2020) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983 "2020-08-25T14:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/1 "2020-08-25T14:38:03Z")
> **[Sean Connery: a dangerously seductive icon of masculinity](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/25/sean-connery-at-90-appreciation-peter-bradshaw-james-bond)** > > Peter Bradshaw celebrates the career of the former milkman who brought a working-class edge to the role of James Bond before further unleashing a sense of menace in roles for Hitchcock and Lumet > **[Sean Connery turns 90. Yes, you read that correctly | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/entertainment/sean-connery-90-trnd/index.html)** > > Happy birthday, Sean Connery! The first James Bond turned 90 on Tuesday. James Bond (sort of) turns 90 today. His last acting role was a voice performance in 2012. I remember saying that his appearance in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003 felt like a Farewell Role for the action star, and was disparaged on this Board for saying so, but he’s only done voice work since then, and none in the past eight years. Still, you wouldn’t really expect him to do more. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/2 "2020-08-25T15:26:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > but he’s only done voice work since then, and none in the past eight years. Still, you wouldn’t really expect him to do more. So what you’re really saying is that, you expect him to talk. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/3 "2020-08-25T15:53:45Z")
Apparently he turned down both Morpheus in the Matrix and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings\* because he didn’t understand them. He decided he would take the next major movie they offered him, which ended up being League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It was a major disappointment and he regretted taking it. \*I feel like he was in the mix, but not definitely offered these. I’d be surprised if they would have really put him in those roles, but that is what he claims… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/4 "2020-08-25T15:59:32Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So what you’re really saying is that, you expect him to talk. I won’t repeat Auric Goldfinger’s retort – I think Connery’s got a few years in him yet. > [@](#): > > It was a major disappointment and he regretted taking it. Maybe, but I think the role was a good sendoff – Connery abdicating the Action Hero role in his 70s to the next generation, as his Allen Quatermain handed off his in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/5 "2020-08-25T17:17:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Apparently he turned down both Morpheus in the Matrix I’m having a hard time picturing a nearly 70 year-old Connery fighting Neo, and later, Agent Smith. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/6 "2020-08-25T17:26:24Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I’m having a hard time picturing a nearly 70 year-old Connery fighting Neo, and later, Agent Smith. Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now? ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/7 "2020-08-25T17:43:25Z")
Wow, I didn’t know he was that old. I figured he was around 75. BTDubs, LoEG is on my “if I find while channel surfing I must watch it” list. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-is-90-today-august-25-2020/918983/8 "2020-08-25T19:15:30Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now? Ha, I read that in Connery’s Scottish accent. _Or were you looking at the woman in the red dresh?_