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Connery Rails Against Scottish Press
February 20 -- Veteran James Bond actor Sean Connery may be Scotland's most famous native son and the staunchest supporter of the country's nationalist movement, but he says that that hardly makes him a media darling back home.
In an interview in today's London Daily Telegraph, Connery, who lives in the Bahamas with his wife, Micheline, says, "The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland."
He calls the media back home "dreadful," blaming foreign ownership for disinterest in a local parliament. "They have done nothing to encourage a parliament they waited 300 years for," said the famously gruff star.
The 70-year-old actor praised the work of Scotland's 2-year-old home rule parliament but said he would like the independence movement to be "further down the track" before he'd return there to live.
He said he suspected it was his support for the opposition Scottish National Party that delayed his knighthood until last year, despite a film career spanning more than 40 years.
"Obviously I had crossed paths with somebody somewhere. I certainly didn't go to them … but I took nearly a week to make a decision about whether to accept it," Connery said.
Connery Eager for Another Indiana Jones AdventureThe actor, often described as the world's sexiest man, is best-known for the role of British secret agent 007, which he played in seven James Bond films.
Connery says now that the only role he would be interested in reprising is that of Indiana Jones' father; he played papa to star Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
"It was hard work … but it was fun because of the caliber of the actors and the director [Steven Spielberg]. I would be happy to do it again," he said.
A fourth Indiana Jones film has been on the back burner of the principals — Spielberg, Ford, and George Lucas — for some time now.
It's been rumored that Connery has been asked to play the cinematic sire to Austin Powers in a third swinging spy film.
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