Star hit Sean Connery so laborious he broke his wrist and his response was excellent

Long earlier than he was well-known, Sean Connery was well-known and feared by the native gangs in Edinburgh after he single-handedly beat six members despatched to intimidate him.

At 6’2, he had bodybuilding and newbie soccer success and was even provided a contract with Manchester City in 1953.

He’d additionally labored as a welder and bouncer following a brief stint within the navy and was a strapping, bodily imposing man.

Unlike some Hollywood motion heroes, he actually was as powerful off-screen as on.

However, his “cockiness” in his power led to damaged bones when he goaded one other star to hit him tougher.

Connery, who’s again on our screens as we speak in Never Say Never, advised chat present host Jay Leno the complete embarrassing story, which you’ll watch beneath.

The actor had completed his foremost run as 007 in 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever however was tempted again to the function by a rival producer. Apart from being provided some huge cash, there was likely the attraction of irritating Bond Producer Cubby Broccoli, with whom Connery had bitterly fought.

1983’s Never Say Never Again was pitted in cinemas towards Roger Moore‘s Octopussy. the actors had been 53 and 56 respectively on the time.

The greying and balding Connery wore a toupee on the shoot and will not have been in fairly the spectacular bodily form of his Bond glory days.

He additionally had an honorary black belt in kyokushin karate however a run-in with a younger aspiring actor and martial arts professional left him paying the worth for being too “cocky.”

At the time Steven Seagal was an aikido grasp. He had lived in Japan within the early Seventies, and married Miyako Fujitani, whose household owned a martial arts faculty the place he additionally taught.

Seagal returned completely to the US in 1983 and opened an aikido dojo in Hollywood – simply in time for the Bond filmmakers to come back calling.

Three years later, chat present host Leno requested the actor whether or not any stunts had ever gone incorrect on movie set.

Connery stated: “A number of years ago with a guy who has become very successful, Steven Seagal… We were going to do a film called Never Say Never Again and there was a possibility I was going to do aikido and what have you.

“I received a’maintain of Steven and we had this coaching within the constructing the place I had an condo and he was actually very, excellent and all the pieces. And I received a bit of cocky as a result of I assumed I knew what I used to be doing…”

Connery added: “The precept is it is protection, so it is a pyramid and I received a bit flash.”

Raising his hand to his face, he said: “I did that – and he broke my wrist…”

Increasingly, Connery was still so much of a tough guy that he brushed off the pain at the time, not realising how serious it was. He added: “It remains to be damaged, I simply discovered final 12 months.”

Connery then turned all of it right into a joke by saying his wrist is especially high-quality however his harm prevents him placing his hand in his pocket to get cash out.