@@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
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
@@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.
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.
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".
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…
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! 😉👍🇬🇧
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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 😂
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..
I was the same age and I agree it is a great movie... though the Banshee, Death Coach, and Pooka horse (by the old well) gave me nightmares for weeks. 😆 EDIT: Sorry, wasn't even paying attention and didn't realize that this is a 2+ year old post.
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.
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... ❤️😎🍸
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.
@@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
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 👍
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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, 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."
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.
Sir Connery was a class act, a true master of acting and just an all around amazing fellow. They don’t make em like they used to. Nope, he’s one of a kind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤣🤣👍🏻
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!
I have read (not sure of the veracity) that one of the things that caused such a shock at the infamous bad press junket, in Japan, during the filming of You Only Live Twice was the shock of seeing Connery, without his hairpiece (and in casual clothes, after a long and tiring flight). My father wore a toupee, through the 70s and 80s, while teaching; but abandoned it by the time I was in college. I suspect it was my mother's idea, more than his, as he had been balding since college and his time in the Air Force. My maternal grandfather and great grandfather were both balding and with my dad, on the other chromosome, I figured, at an early age, that I was doomed and vowed to just cut my hair short. I went through college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and served as an officer, for 4 years after; so, I was used to short hair. I kept it after the military, but my hair didn't noticeably start thinning until I approached my 40s. I was just happy I outlasted my older brother, so I could stick it to him for several years.
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.
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
