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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jacob Stolworthy

Ron Perlman opens up on awkward Sean Connery film shoot: ‘I just let one fly’

Hollywood isn’t all glitz and glamour, with actors routinely put through their paces to get the right shot – something once experienced by Sean Connery, who ended up being spat in the face up to 16 times by his co-star.

In 1986, the Scottish James Bond actor led historical thriller The Name of the Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel, playing a Franciscan friar recruited to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.

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