Comparing how Roger Moore and Sean Connery aged

Roger Hassenforder · 06-03-2019 6:18pm

fatknacker wrote: »

I never really got the mass and unquestioned appeal of either, really. They always looked too old, eyebrowey and smarmy for my liking. I know it's each to their own with taste but there's a consensus that they are up there as being the biggest sex symbols of their time. I'm sure the Bond role helped.

Same with Robert Redford. I think a lot of the time it's a case of them being held in high regard of having "sex appeal" and the crowd following suit in that its understood that they are meant to be ideal. They became the go-to guys of sexy men.

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06-03-2019 6:55pm

It's always interesting to me how men perceive other men ageing.

When Sean Connery was an old man, he looked like an old man. A fairly healthy one, but still an old baldie guy. When Moore was an old man he looked just like an old man. One with hair, but still an old man. Both looked their ages.

I think how people perceive them as old men has a lot to do with how they were regarded as young men. Otherwise, you wouldn't look twice at either of them in the street once they hit middle age. I'm sure they're both great guys, but neither discovered the fountain of youth.

Mad_maxx · 06-03-2019 7:25pm

Blush Proof wrote: »

Yeah, the same year Connery made 'The Rock' and looked incredible handsome.

But yet around the year Connery made 'Diamonds are Forever' (which was before Moore's first Bond), Moore would've looked a lot younger. Interesting.

Good point, Connery aged in appearance between you only live twice and diamonds are forever four years later to an incredible degree

Mad_maxx · 06-03-2019 7:27pm

MrCostington wrote: »

Couldn't agree more. I hesitate to type this, having been a Bond fan since Connery's days, but I think Craig may be the best bond ever. There, I said it. And Skyfall, the best adventure yet for the exact same reasons you cite. Dalton in the same mold - both more serious in the role, as you would expect in real life.

Sorry to go further OT, but I was so excited to hear Danny Boyle was going to direct the next one, and so upset to here he was not!!

To answer the OP, I think Connery retained more rugged good looks.

Casino royale is way better than skyfall, got really stupid when they met Albert finney, like something out of the A team

Beasty · 06-03-2019 8:01pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Casino royale is way better than skyfall, got really stupid when they met Albert finney, like something out of the A team

You mean it's been getting a bit far-fetched?

Capt'n Midnight · 06-03-2019 9:12pm

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

On fairness to Roger, he didnt take himself seriously, always seemed to be in on the joke

"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"

As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.

I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.

Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.

And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."

I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."
- Mark Haynes,

Blush Proof · 06-03-2019 9:18pm

Candie wrote: »

When Sean Connery was an old man, he looked like an old man. A fairly healthy one, but still an old baldie guy. When Moore was an old man he looked just like an old man. One with hair, but still an old man. Both looked their ages.

I think how people perceive them as old men has a lot to do with how they were regarded as young men. Otherwise, you wouldn't look twice at either of them in the street once they hit middle age. I'm sure they're both great guys, but neither discovered the fountain of youth.

Are you kidding me? Did you not see how good looking Connery was in 'The Rock'

Badly Drunk Boy · 06-03-2019 9:36pm

Nothing much to do with the thread topic, but I saw Gyles Brandreth recently talking about Roger Moore, who he'd known since he was 12.

Roger offered to give him some acting tips when Brandreth first started on telly.

‘I’ll show you everything I know,’ he said. ‘It won’t take long.’ He taught me how to raise my left eyebrow. I couldn’t manage the right. Roger could raise both of his. ‘That’s because I’m twice the actor you are, Gyles.’

Your Face · 06-03-2019 9:45pm

Behold:

tylercheribini · 06-03-2019 9:48pm

Your Face wrote: »

Behold:

I knew it was only a matter of time before this masterpiece was cited, made back when a name director could actually get stuff like this greenlit.

PinotNero · 06-03-2019 10:08pm

Iwouldinmesack · 06-03-2019 10:11pm

fatknacker wrote: »

I never really got the mass and unquestioned appeal of either, really. They always looked too old, eyebrowey and smarmy for my liking. I know it's each to their own with taste but there's a consensus that they are up there as being the biggest sex symbols of their time. I'm sure the Bond role helped.

Same with Robert Redford. I think a lot of the time it's a case of them being held in high regard of having "sex appeal" and the crowd following suit in that its understood that they are meant to be ideal. They became the go-to guys of sexy men.

Robert Redford? Have you not seen a picture of him when he was young? A very good looking fella

odyssey06 · 06-03-2019 10:25pm

If I was quantum leaped into the body of a young redford, moore, connery, dalton, craig, brosnan I could have no objections... something off putting about lazenby though.

Tuco88 · 07-03-2019 12:18am

Did Connery not wear a wig as bond?

Brosnan was meh for me, Goldeneye was good, but never liked him as bond.

Mad_maxx · 07-03-2019 12:29am

Beasty wrote: »

You mean it's been getting a bit far-fetched?

The way they assembled an arsenal out of bits and pieces

MonkieSocks · 07-03-2019 12:30am

Viagra won't make you James Bond, but it sure will make you Roger Moore.

Mad_maxx · 07-03-2019 12:34am

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Nothing much to do with the thread topic, but I saw Gyles Brandreth recently talking about Roger Moore, who he'd known since he was 12.

Roger offered to give him some acting tips when Brandreth first started on telly.

Makes flawless sense that those two knew each other since boyhood

janfebmar · 07-03-2019 12:52am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"

As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.

I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.

Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.

And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."

I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."
- Mark Haynes,

Great story, well told. Some famous people nowadays would not be so pleasant.

Mike Oxlong · 07-03-2019 1:01am

"Ramirez"!!!

Comparing how Roger Moore and Sean Connery aged

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