{"id":102329,"date":"2020-11-01T02:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-decade-before-james-bond-sean-connery-was-a-nude-model\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:10:24","slug":"a-decade-before-james-bond-sean-connery-was-a-nude-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-decade-before-james-bond-sean-connery-was-a-nude-model\/","title":{"rendered":"#A decade before James Bond, Sean Connery was a nude model"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A decade before James Bond, Sean Connery was a nude model<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Before Bond and fame, Sean Connery spent his early 20s lifting weights and working odd jobs \u2014 including as a nude model for a reknowned Scottish art school.<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s death at age 90<\/a> was announced by family on Saturday; numerous obits have paid tribute to his career as James Bond and other roles, and to his humble beginnings in Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou used to do nude modeling as a young man, is that true?\u201d Jay Leno asked Connery in a 1999 interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the audience whooping simmered down, Connery raised one eyebrow wryly acknowledged this was true.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Edinbugh College of Art, to make ends meet if you know what I mean,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was three of us, actually,\u201d he told Leno.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an old guy who\u2019d done it for years and years, and a quite an attractive young woman and myself. And we were the three models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The class was \u201cmostly women,\u201d Connery told Leno.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to get six and eight pence an hour for standing stationary and with 15 minutes off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At least one of the student works has since surfaced, a portrait painted in 1951, ten years before he would be cast in his first of seven Bond movies<\/a>, Dr. No.<\/em><\/p>\n

The oil painting shows a buff, standing Connery at age 21, as viewed from behind; it was discovered nine years ago<\/a> among the old canvases of an elderly British artist.<\/p>\n

Connery was bodybuilding at the time, and two years later entered the Mr. Universe pageant in London, placing third, People magazine noted<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

While there competing, a fellow bodybuilder told him that auditions were being held for the show \u201cSouth Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Connery is seen at the 2012 US Open Tennis Tournament<\/span>Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He fibbed about having acting experience to get the role, he later confessed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d no experience whatever, and hadn\u2019t even been on a stage before, but it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves,\u201d he said in a 1965 Playboy interview, Huffington Post noted Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In calling Connery \u201cone of the greatest actors of all time\u201d on Saturday, Arnold Schwarzenegger noted their shared bodybuilding roots \u2014 and their shared path from pageant to cinema.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe provided endless entertainment for all of us & inspiration for me,\u201d Schwarzenegger tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not just saying that because he was a bodybuilder who placed in the Mr. Universe contest! He was an icon.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n