Reason Sean Connery is Cool, Part 3,224: Rider in Contract Demands a "Bigger Explosion" in Current Movie Than He Had in Last Movie

I assume they mean in his action movies. I don't remember big explosions in Finding Forrester.

ean Connery was contracted to have bigger explosions in each film he appeared in.

The now retired actor demanded increasingly exorbitant pyrotechnics with every action film he starred in, according to director Alan Moore.

Alan - who made 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' starring Sean in 2003 - said: "The film cost £100 million because Sean Connery wanted £17 million of that - and a bigger explosion that the one he'd had in his last film. It's in his contract that he has to have a bigger explosion with every film he's in.

"In 'The Rock' he'd blown up an island, and he was demanding in 'The League...' that he blow up Venice or something like that. It would have been the moon in his next movie."

Christian Bale's contract, meanwhile, requires he be surrounded only by "fucking professionals" who "know how to fucking work with fucking actors."

Thanks to David R.

posted by Ace at 04:10 PM

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