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Sean Connery. The original — and to some people, the only — James Bond is enjoying being away from the cameras. After stunning success with such hits as the “Indiana Jones” films, “The Hunt for Red October,” “The Rock,” and, of course, his James Bond entries, Connery walked away from the business.

One of his final efforts, 2003’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman,” didn’t live up to Connery’s expectations and it was rumored the movie had an incredibly difficult shoot; Connery and the director, Stephen Norrington, possibly even came to blows.

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“I’m fed up with the idiots … the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies,” Connery told the New Zealand Herald back in 2005.

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Connery wrote to fans on his official website in 2007 about his retirement and decision to turn down projects like 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” “If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an ‘Indiana Jones’ film,” he wrote. “But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”

Fellow actor Michael Caine, still an incredibly active artist just coming off the surprise 2017 hit “Going in Style,” confirmed in 2011 that his friend was not re-entering the business any time soon. “I phoned him the other day, but we never see each other because he doesn’t move around a lot now,” Caine said, according to The Telegraph. “He won’t make another film now. I just asked him. He said, ‘No, I’ll never do it.'”

Caine added, “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.”

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Despite his retirement from acting, a few projects have interested Connery. He voiced the lead role in and executive-produced a small animated movie called “Sir Billi” in 2012, and he did voice work for a James Bond video game in 2005 called “From Russia with Love.”

With a new Indiana Jones adventure on the horizon and the Bond franchise still in full swing, perhaps there’s a chance Connery could feel the acting bug once more and be convinced to take part in some way. “A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” after all, is not the kind of movie the great Scotsman should be going out on. (click on page 4 for the rest of the story)[lz_pagination]