Rewind: Sean Connery talks about going bald & making "The Rock"
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- Here's my 1996 interview with Sean Connery where we talked about how he handled going bald, working with Walt Disney, and making "The Rock" on-location.
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It took some balls to ask him about his baldness, and credit to Connery for taking it in stride.
50 percent of men go bald. It's hardly a scandal
@@roddyboethius1722 true but it's the 1st interview i've seen that he was asked about it
Way more than 50 pct will have some kind of hair loss.
Most men will.
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I agree, I would have been very nervous to ask that question - Sean was biting his lip initially, but he handled it well
@@rcfred_689 that he did there is am interview with Keith Richard's I watched a last month where he was asked what kind of guy was Charlie watts? That took Keith by surprise and he asked why do you want to know? He replied we always hear about when someone passes but nobody ever asks what kind of guy was he? Or something like that he said as I said Richard's was pretty surprised by the question
90s style of interviewing. Great questions, no social media, and no clickbait, just concise conversation.
It's not even '90s, it's just genuine questions. There are several people who even today ask genuine questions in interviews. The trick is avoiding certain shows.
What a complete and utter silly comment. You don't have a clue about anything
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@@jj4791 just say it: you hate black people and want to fist them
Before education went down the shitter
I briefly met Sean in Switzerland at an air show a couple of years before he passed away. I didn’t bother him but it was a thrill to see such a living legend in the flesh.
What a legend you are for not bothering him, I have this attitude as well as I’d be too scared they’d be annoyed. Especially with a gentleman like Sean
How unacceptable that you not harass him ceaselessly for autographs and photographs and treat him like a non-person.
So when you say "met" you mean "saw".
@@fabiosplendido9536 he might’ve said hello to him or something like that and just left it like that. Meaning he didn’t want to bother him further. most people don’t include every tiny detail in a story, It’s up to the reader or listener to fill in the blanks. To me if somebody says they met somebody it’s because they were close enough for an actual greeting.
I love the look of kind camaraderie that Connery gives you when you talk about losing hair. It's like "poor guy, I know exactly what you're talking about, I've been there myself".
I love how Sean's face lit up when asked about going bald.
" these guys were the pros, they were the real thing, sheals"
I have a close friend that started to go bald in his late 20's. He said "I'm not going bald, I'm just getting more head."
Genius! Haha!
A beautiful face requires more space
@@HeroInTheSunVery good.
Thank you
Late 20's he's lucky then. I started going bald at 17.
RIP Sean Connery. The true Bond. The only Bond.
So TRUE
Him and a few other guys, yeah.
Have you never heard of Roger Moore Tim Dalton Daniel Craig Pierce Brosnan.
I started going bald in my twenties.
After a few years of half-heartedly trying to hide it, I embraced it by getting my hair cut really short (a "number 2" all over).
Soon after that I thought, "Why on earth am I still paying someone to cut my hair?" I invested in some electric clippers and I've been doing it myself ever since, which is hugely liberating.
My advice to anyone beginning to lose their hair is the same as Mr Connery's - cut it short, the shorter the better. I think the main cause of angst for balding men isn't how they look now, but how their appearance is going to change over time. You can overcome that by just circumventing the process. It's a bit like quitting your job before you're fired. 😊
I got the same advice from a bald guy. The thing is, his shaved head doesn't look as great as he imagines it to be. Some people just hate the feeling and look of no hair.
@@flyingfrogperson9200 are these people that 'hate the look" the ones that _have_ no hair, or the people that are judging them?
@@miked1869 the only ones judging bald guys are themselves or other bald guys ironically.
It's true about being terrified of baldness. For me it's the prospect of no longer attracting the opposite sex and looking older than my age. I'm not balding but @Miked1869 gives good advice here if tthat day ever comes.
I went long. I've only lost it in the back so I just tie some of it over that. Problem solved.
Ah, Sean Connery. As a fellow Scot, I can say that he's one of our greatest, recent Scottish heroes who brought such a lasting, global, positive image to our small country.
Thanks for the memory, big man
Earlier this year, I was at happy hour in a very nice steakhouse. There were three people sitting at a booth and one gentleman who must have been in his late seventies had a striking resemblance to Mr. Connery. I left and and when I walked to my car, he was smoking a thin cigar and checking out my car. I asked him if people have told him of this resemblance. He looked at me and grinned in agreement. Then he looked at the back of my car and saw the license plate frame that says Shaken, Not Stirred. He got a kick out of that. And to top it off, I was sporting my hat that says You’ve Had Your Six. I tell you, it was almost like talking to Connery himself! RIP…
@@AbeTheSigma007 I love that story. The punch line was that he wasn't Sean Connery 🤣
@@Ultimabendessen I’m so glad that my comment was so well received! Be well to All…
Don't worry the WEF-shills and degenerates you have been electing the past few years wiped all that out.
He couldn't wait to get out of the shithole that is Scotland. Yet he didn't mind bowing down to the Queen of Scotland,England for his knighthood.
Sean was excellent in “The Rock. He also acted in many incredible dramas. Grew up watching this genius.
Genius?
Is he really good at math or something?
I like Sean Connery
Lovely story, thanks for sharing it. At least you got to meet him !
You love to ramble and include nonsense in your “story”
@@divinegon4671 Yes I do. But wait, by "nonsense" you mean my intents of describing my perceptions and feelings?
@@polemikful It's a great story and I think you did a fine job telling it. 👍
Thank you for sharing, I felt I was there with you reading your story.
This is a first rate junket interview, to the point, concise and the sneaky personal last question once you get the warning - well done
Thanks Gil for the kind words. Sometimes the 4 minutes go very well. It's always a good sign when the crew laughs as was the case here.
Actors have to do a hundred of these per day. I always felt that if you can get the actor to smile or even laugh through one of these, then you've reached them. Well done.
The warm dewey-eyed look Mr Connery gave the interviewer when he addressed the baldness was wonderful!
Like a master taking delight in sharing his wisdom.
His description of someone coiling up a wispy rats-tail made me think of a Walnut-Whip! 😉👍🇬🇧
Every guy on the planet, myself included, has pointed to Sean Connery as a role model for hair loss! Now, not everyone has his basic great looks, but emulating his style can go a long way!
The Rock.
A James Bond movie in which Bond is a secondary character.
Incell
Sean Connery is the best example of going bald and still look great. ‘’ leave your head be” ……Sean Connery when asked about wearing a wig outside filming.
Brilliant actor and greatly missed. So many brilliant films but remember going to see The Rock at our local Odeon, great times.
His take on guys who sport combovers is hilarious and very true. Looks ridiculous and doesn't fool anyone.
Well it does if you only go out in public at night and the lightning is dim.
Hmmm yeah but he walked around with a wig on his head for years.
I've seen pictures of him with longer hair and a combover in the 70s so he didn't always follow this advice.
@@sratuspretty sure he only wore wigs in films and even then he made plenty of films without one
@@sratusOnly in movies, when it was pushed onto him for a specific role.
The very first film I ever saw at the movie theatre was " Darby O'Gill and the little people" ..1963 . I was five.
Charming Disney movie with Sean ..
Nice memory..
Connery seemed to be actually enjoying the conversation, which I wasn't expecting! Usually with these junket things now, actors seem so false, whether they're being overly sincere or comedic or whatever, they're desperate not to make a mistake and get social media-ed to death. Connery, it's as if he's just sat down on a park bench in the sunshine, and is happy to have a random chat for a few minutes.
One of the best actors ever!❤
Spot on x
He did the best Russian 🤣
Great questions, got him talking about things we don't normally hear about in celebrity interviews.
When you are as handsome as Conerry you look equally good either with hair or without it. It doesn't matter too much.
Don't even need the looks as long as you have a sense of humor about it and wear it with confidence. I've been on first dates and women have asked what happened to my hair and I just say something like "See that guy over there? Yeah, they left me for him." or "They said they were going on a vacation but that was 10 years ago."
There will be women who will turn you down instantly because you're bald but they're probably not that fun anyways.
I'be been bald for about 25 years. While I have to watch for the sun and wear a hat or sun protector, and buzz it sometimes 2x a week, I mostly don't miss the shampoo, conditioner, and monthly trips to the barber. I never really looked good with hair. It was dry and couldn't be done in certain ways.
Great response to the question. I had longer hair all through my teens and 20s and loved it. Noticed I had started thinning at 28 and cut it all off. It was hard at the time because it felt like part of my identity but I can't imagine getting messed up about it. Age and nature take their course, we gotta deal with it and move forward 👍
Very relaxed, polite, nice. A real pro, a real man. I'm 49 yo, and baldness begun on my head at 18-19. It was never a serious matter, for me. Thanks also to some guys, like Bruce Willis, and obviously Mr. Connery himself... ❤️😎🍸
Legend. As the saying goes, "they dont make them like they used to."
There is a Sean Connery out there but they don't put real men in movies today.
That´s a consolation in many ways, because we are supposed to go forward, not backwards. Connery was a product of his time, in good and worse. Amazing individual and an actor.
I'm not sure why we're meant to go forward and most don't even know which direction forward is.
If something is good, you don't move 'forward' for the sake of it,surely? @@oldtimer7635
so great that you asked that question and so great how he responded...about the hair that is.
Great interview, you could sense Sean felt like the interviewer knew his stuff and was asking intelligent questions.
I love that he asked the balding question.
Well the interviewer is bald too
I miss Sean. One of a kind.
This is the best Sean interview ive seen. Sean wasn`t bothered about answering about baldness. Charming interviewer.
I miss actors like him. The old timers are the best.😊
Connery, along with Yul Brenner, Telly Savalas, and Ed Harris''s thinning hair, all served as inspirations when I was losing my hair . . . as in: "Those guys losing their hair did not detract from their masculinity. Since it works for them, it works for me."
There's a great tidbit about Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven: Steve McQueen tried to draw attention from Yul Brynner by taking off his hat to shade his eyes as he looks around just before they drive the hearse to the graveyard and bending down from his saddle to dip water with his hat as the whole crew crosses a stream. Finally Brynner said to him, "If you don't stop that I'm going to take off my hat, and then no one will look at you for the rest of the film."
It took a lot of guts to ask him about going bald. Smart to save that until the end in case he responded badly.
baldly*
@@marcgreaves4354😂
How could he get upset about a balding guy asking about baldness? Lol. To all my shiny headed bros I salute you!
@@DarkSpartan062 this lol he could get away with the question because the interviewer was experiencing the same thing. easy to talk about when you can relate to it
Sean never wore a hairpiece in his private life, nor did he ever have cosmetic surgery, he was always secure and comfortable in his own skin.
Connery was a fascinating guy super smart and well read, tough as nails (you feel you wouldn't want to cross him) but when he smiled or laughed you feel the room kinda lift up.
You can tell Sean likes his line of questioning.....Sean did not suffer fools lightly ....
Such a great interview, wonderful job Mark! 😎👌🏽
Wonderful "old school" interview. Really dug this one. As a massive movie fan, I have seen SO many junkets. And this one felt refreshing.
Met Mr. Connery while he was sitting on his stairs outside his flat in London while he was reading the newspaper . My buddy and I were walking to breakfast about 8 am and there he was … I just said to him good morning , made eye contact and he said good morning … and we just kept walking . I said to my friend , “ well you don’t see that every day …Sean Connery reading the newspaper in his outside stairs … we then laughed our asses off in disbelief 😂
What a charming bloke. Great little interview, thanks for sharing.
Damned good video clip/interview.
Also, thank goodness for compartmentalization.
Great interview. Unusual but intriguing questions that kept Mr. Connery engaged.
Sean Connery was a true mans man, he was a member of only a handful that graced our screens..
Lovely interview, and a great universally-human moment to break the "movie star" finish. Well done!
re baldness: John Wayne was also bald. He didn't care one bit. He said he wore the wig in movies and personal appearances b/c the fans expected him to look a certain way. But when he was on his boat or just chillin' at home, he went au naturale up top
He didn't care because he was a rich and famous movie star, like Sean Connery, whose reputation was secure.
That was so incredibly refreshing to see a real actor interviewed by a real journalist who came prepared with with excellent questions
You can tell Sean likes his line of questioning.....Sean did not suffer fools lightly ....
@@US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. Big time! That’s why I enjoy Hot Ones with Sean Evans, he’s constantly impressing his subjects with thoughtful questions
Im 63 and my brother is 57... we both went bald near our 20's... at that point , hair club for men was
the "Big thing" for guys loosing their hair and he went for it big time... I had zero intrest in hair pieces, weaves, transplants and all that...I would much rather come to the point of being at peace with oneself and the inner grace that comes from that understanding and self acceptance...my brother got the hairclub thing and believe it or not, he is still wearing it! Im shocked that the company even exists this many decades later and with no advertising...I remember,when he would go in for the maintainence of that thing, I came along once to see the place..Instantly I was greeted by a guy, wearing an obvious hairpiece along with some manufactured confidence.. he tries to sell me on getting the hairclub and I told hims no thanks bro, no interest at all... he seemed shocked..
I loved connery's response to the question... "its no big deal.. just cut it short"... what happens with people who have never come to a point of self acceptance is that, hairpiece or transplant or whatever, inwardly, the issue that bothered them has never been faced, its only been avoided,covered up...I can still see the insecurities still there behind the hairclub guys eyes and false confidence he tried to project....the inner grace that comes to someone who has moved beyond it "Even being an issue" is absent ...its still something that inwardly preoccupies their mind and a secret they have to guard...
Very charismatic interview on both sides.
“Cut it short” yep, no more needs to be said really 😂
He wore a wig for years.
Great questions! Thanks for sharing
Very good interview!
I’ve always admired Sean Connery, even more as time goes by, especially when coming across such interviews. RIP, Sean Connery, and thanks for making this world a bit more enjoyable.
Yeah no one talks to men about the fact their hair may just fall out. it feels like something you should probably touch on during the puberty talk idk
I have a full head of hair and im 44 i have shaved it off a couple of times just to see what id look like, Sean Connery what a legend
Great interview.
great actor and fellow brit, been 3 years since he passed now... I'm not usually hit hard when a celeb passes... because you know I never actually knew them... but his one got me. I remember telling my mum... I said sean connery has died and as I said it my voice kind of broke but I held it together but she heard it. Being british you know you grow up with james bond and then the rock is one of my fav movies. I always like to think of the rock at the end when I think of sean... where he just disappears with that sweet music playing. Dearly missed.
Great interview!! 🎉
Really great interviewer
Fantastic interview! Loved every second of it! Too bad Mr. Connery is no longer with us!
Great questions. Much more interesting than the usual.
This is a great interviewer, fun but good questions!
He would be mortified if saw what has happened to Ireland and Disney…..
It's a timing thing. I first became aware that my hair was thinning on top 18 years ago. Thankfully the process has been incredibly slow and I just started to cut my hair shorter in the last 3 years. I can still have a number 2 cut and it looks fine. I'll probably have to shave it in around 3/4 years time. I am totally cool with losing my hair at my age now.
My mate lost his hair in his late 20's and has still not come to terms with it and he's 59. It is the biggest regret of his life. He feels cheated as apparently he was known for having a great head of hair. I think if I'd lost my hair in my 20's I would also have felt gutted and it would have definitely have affected my luck with women, as it has my mate! Despite what bald men tell you, there are more women out there who want a man with hair, than those who don't.
It's easy for Mr Connery to brush off baldness. He had looks, height, money, fame and a Scottish accent to fall back on.
And charisma.
Yeah, a guy like Connery was going to be okay, in either event....but the average real-life bald guy is more along the lines of George Costanza...
@@tgriffin3059 ...clinging to some scraps.
@@tgriffin3059yeah I love it when people say how great the rock looks bald. So all you have to do is be a muscled and ripped 270 pounds and 6'3. Anyone can do that.
@@tgriffin3059I LOVE George Costanza, one of the very best characters on TV
dude used to deliver milk to my grandparents way back when.. Stockbridge Edinburgh
Great interview 💫
I love that you asked him about losing his hair. It’s so easy for people to say shave it or get over it. It’s not that simple to a lot of people. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a celebrity asked that question and I appreciate both the question and answer as someone who worries or stresses about hair loss from time to time. I’m sure alot of celebrities wear toupees or won’t allow that question too but it s interesting to hear what it was like for someone in their position. IMO at least
By the time my hair loss would have been noticeable, I had been in the military and gotten used to a crew cut... The difference between 1/4" of hair and no hair just didn't seem to be that important to me...
Connery wore a wig for years
Always cool. There's no one else like Sean Connery.
“Tell me, when you lost your hair, did it annoy you that people started calling you shorn Connery?”
I could not agree more with Sean Connery's reaction about going bald. We all are born with certain instinctive traits, and I truly believe my luckiest one was to think and react just as he did. I started to go bald at about 27 which very much was due to a girlfriend hairdresser convincing me to have one of those curly perms back in the 70s. It looked quite good initially, but in a few days, the hairs at the top of my head just started to break and fall off. My girlfriend even packed me in, because no way as a hairdresser was she going to be seen with a baldy.
It was tough for a while, but I accepted it and went on to have quite a few very attractive girlfriends, one I lived with for a long time and then two wives, in fact as a chat-up line I would tell the story about going bald which always led to the girl laughing her head off, especially the part of my hairdresser girlfriend leaving me. I would then pretend to be very sad at them laughing, which always made them laugh more.
I can say now 70, I am fortunate to have had many happy memories of being with women, due to that story,
Getting a perm and damaging your hair once isn’t going to make you go bald. You were probably thinning a lot and she suggested the perm to try to cover it up.
Yes you may well be right but other hairdressers I have met over the years, have told me that since the 1970s when men like me were having perms that I was not alone in my hair falling out and much stronger regulations came in, in regard to the strength of the liquid they used. @@thefonzkiss
That is not how you go bald, dude.
@@thefonzkiss Yeah what happened is his hair was already thinning out and the perm was just too aggressive so it sped up the process
Well if nothing else it's an entertaining story. Glad you had it work out for you.
I'm re watching the old bond movies, what a great man, the perfect bond.
17 years old and my hair started falling out. Now, at 46, my head is a solar panel for my sex machine. 😅
Finding Forester is a movie I always drop the remote and watch. Sean is a man that exudes wisdom like very few other men can.
You're the man now... dog.
Definitely the best bond of them all 😮.
The truest example of "That's not a bald spot...it's a solar panel for a sex machine." There'll never be another one like Sean Connery..
It seemed like Sean enjoyed that interview.
I started to recede quite quickly at around 21 years old. It didn't take long for me to go with a number 2 all over then a number 1. I've never looked back.
Fun interview. Good questions.
By the time he landed the role of 007 in the first Bond, 1962's Dr NO, he had already lost enough hair to make the use of a toupee necessary to play the character. But he was still Bond on and off the screen, toupee on, toupee off.
Superb questions.
This interviewer is good. He leads with a completely unrelated question then BOOM Alcatraz. Not like a lot of them who throw some hard BS questions at you.
My guy always called the guys with a comb-over a "wrap-around baldy". She is gone now but I still use the term.
For the record, my hair was always lustrous and thick until my mid 20s when it started going fast. It has gotten thinner and thinner and is not completely barren on top but so sparse that I just shaved my head for the last 20 years and roll with it.
Don't take those hair pills, they seriously neuter you by stopping testosterone production.
It doesnt stop your testosterone production but it can mess with some of your hormones...just seen in 5% of the users and it went back to normal when they stopped.
Most of the guys symptoms are psicological,and that part is also connected to the sexual/libido function.
They once made a test,they gathered a group of guys that were balding,they gave to half of them finasteride and to to the other half they gave placebo.
The ones tooking the placebo were also saying that they felt lack of strength,libido etc although they were taking 1mg pills made of flour😂😂
I have a some friends taking finasteride and they feel nothing,the hair became much better after 6 months.
I know this because i was thinking about taking the pills but i ended up doing hair transplant and for now i dont need them anymore,if i need them in the future i will probably use them.
@@miguelpereira1262 Minoxidil?
@@miguelpereira1262 I heard you need some pills after transplant, or new hair gonna drop again. Is it true?
what a great man.
My brother had the two best lines about going bald. First, all the way back in high school, a classmate teased, "If you keep wearing that hat all the time, you'll go bald!" To which he replied, "Hey, if I go bald, I'll just wear a hat all the time." And he seriously did not give AF! Later when he was getting widows peaks, he said, "So what? If I go bald does that mean I can't go fishing anymore?" Classic!
Men go bold in later years so that all the knowledge they have accumulated over the years can escape into others heads easier.
He really enjoyed that last question, which is fortunate, as I believe he could be a little waspy at times
Probably helped that it was almost a personal question for advice from a younger baldy. Asked by someone else in a different way the response may have been very different.
In a way i was lucky that i started losing my hair at 16 because i never got a chance to get hung up on it. Guys I knews in school who had great hair made part of their personality and grieved its loss. I always appreciated that Connery would wear a toupee in a movie but do press for it with his natural head.
Good interview.
Like Mark, I am freaking out. On the flipside, Sean’s thoughts about a snake taking off in the wind are exactly what I always thought, except that this metaphor is a really nice way of putting it 🤣🤣👍🏻
Brilliant film , so glad Arnie knocked it back
Arnie surprisingly claims he was offered the role of Goodspeed, not the ex-prisoner with a special forces background.
He looked better at 65 than at 40.
That's due to director in the rock. Plus his beard hides his wrinkles well.
That was cool about the losing your hair question.
A man's man to be sure
Good interview
I think he was making a reference/joke towards Bobby Charlton at the end there🤭🤣
Sean Connery is the epitome of confidence. Makes me wonder…I love ya Sean!
Sean Connery one of best bond s ever.