Michael Caine and Sean Connery | Carson Tonight Show

Most people are a little intimidated, aren't they? Wine Steward comes up and says, would you like the wine list? because most people don't really know unless you don't, and the basic principle is to never buy the most expensive one because all that means is that the restaurant paid more for it and Usually, on that one, yeah, I I imagine you tried the jug and I threw it in there, eh, you don't, but you import wines from California. Well, my partner is in Napa Valley right now or he's back to talk to um. a lot of Californians, yeah, people, because to make good wine in California, in fact, some of the Californian wines are some of the best in the world, but people who don't know California, that's true, do you know what they do?

They do it wrong, what is that? They drink it too young. They always drink wherever I go. They give me wine from California and think it's so horrible that now they have to drink 1973. If they left it like the French did, then you know. It doesn't depend on a particular crop or a particular type of green, well, here you don't, you don't have a crop, so since the weather is always more or less the same in the Napa Valley, what you have to rely on is go to the best wine producer and here you have a lot of young people that you know, unlike the French who have died on the wall and will not change the vats and will not do this and that here they do experiments and If you can find a guy who has done the right experiment and you have a good wine, that's interesting, okay, I'm going to bring up that this is the first time we're together with John and the excitement, uh, is. first time in a movie, but we worked in television about 12 or 15 years ago, it's true, yeah, I don't think I've been on the

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before we've crossed paths once or twice, socially, but of course I think Sean making His uh Mark around the world was the first time people really got into the success of the James Bond movies, which ultimately ended up not particularly exciting him, but he's a good actor.

Would you welcome him, Mr. Sean Connery? Very good, it's a pleasure to have you here. finally thanks, who is my virgin move? Yeah, I think the first time we met was in New York, if I remember, one night at a party. I think Phyllis Newman and her husband are that right. Absolutely true. I didn't know if. You would remember it I certainly understand how you were very, very good In fact, I remember the boys getting very drunk Yes, that's true, but those those days, those days are Bob, buy me now, yeah, oh, and I miss him, so I don't , I am, I have rethought it.

I'm not really a drinker anymore. I found out that I didn't handle it well. Oh, I wouldn't agree at all. I thought you were charming and funny and yes, but you say you were drunk at the time. So naturally, I look charming. You see, that's it. One of the things about drinking, everyone is lovely when everyone is the same, but I suddenly discovered that when you go to a party and you don't drink, you see people in a strange and different way, you don't think at all, no, no . currently well, I do it and you would use it as a drink, watch out for something, yeah, what would you care? uh, scotch and soda, please, scotch and soda, certainly, yes, on the right side of the hill, I'll have a can of Yoo-hoo. cool to exactly 57 degrees, we really should, they're really good guys, we're pretending because on TV you see you can pretend it's a prop or something pretend Scottish, pretend it's Scottish, use your imagination, you'll probably know just to make sure, but it's just water oh for good old times sake holy anyway i just asked my mike before you came out this is the movie they made together about 15 years ago right tv what we did most recent tv that was

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n here in the United States, but uh, never, ever. they went together, he ended up with my daughter, you see, oh, I never met Charles Antelope in the movie we released at Christmas, he ends up with my wife, yes, absolutely, yes, we have a better deal, it was a better deal. we have a um we have a little clip of the image of the man who would be king.

I don't know, this needs a little configuration. Do you know what particular segment we have of the image? Uh, you know one of your boys, yeah, I know. what is it, it's um Christopher Plummer, it's Rajard Kipling, it's a story by Raja Kipling about two men he met and wrote a story about his adventures and the meeting with Kipling is included in the film where they tell him what they are going for. To do this, look at the monitor here in the studio and we'll show you the little clip of the man who would be king.

I think I was in that suit during the war. I always won. We will take a short break. Let's go. We're back, we're back, we're talking to Sean Connery and Michael Kane. I forgot to ask when this photo comes out. The man who would be king. In summer, in December, around the 17th to the 18th. Here, I think the 19th is here. We're in Los Angeles, yeah, do you ever lose track of where you are when you're on tour? I had Peter O'Toole on the show one night and all several years ago and people thought he had been bombed because he just might as well have been, but he wasn't that night.

He had just been on one of those tours where he had flown in from England. He was about seven hours late and every time I said something, he just left, so during a commercial. He said: Are you okay? and he said: I absolutely agree with a time delay. I didn't really know where I was in New York or Los Angeles the first time. The first time I did your show. I had never been to the United States. I went on television and they woke me up at six in the morning they said hurry up we are going to television I said at six in the morning there is no one watching and they suggest that there will be trust in us and I went and did the Today program with 20 million viewers , 40 million views or something and I never understood and that night, just when I was going to sleep, I said, come on, let's do the show

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, so I said, but that's it.

It was something like 10 11 30 11 11 30 at night. I said that no one would be watching because in England television used to start at four in the afternoon and end at 11. So for someone to tell me, you have to watch television at 7:30 in the morning seemed ridiculous to me and especially to 11:30 at night and I went to these two shows that I assumed no one was watching and which then turned out to be the Today Show and the Tonight Show and I had made a fool of myself. of myself in front of 60 million people, let me see if this is an accurate quote.

I think you said after you'd done several of the Bond pictures that it almost made your life miserable, it was very difficult, for example, um. The last one I finally decided to do was in Japan, you only lived twice, it was too pressurized, it was a six month shoot in a very, very hot country, with temperatures of 110 or more in Kagoshima and when we got to Tokyo there. It was for 500 of these photographers and press and you talked to them, you did everything you could with them and then even if you went to the bathroom they were still there, there was no escape and it wasn't very well programmed that you could do anything. except the movie and then you finish the movie and then they expected you to meet them again after you had been filming well, so I was under regular pressure and I made a lot of statements because I never had a press representative or anything and the chapter was supposed to represent to the company so he and I didn't agree anyway, I don't blame him, he was just wrong, most of the guys when they saw those photos because they were fantasy photos, they were actually fantasy photos of the man with the girls and sophistication and so on they would say hey, what role do you know in their mind to play.

Did you discover when you came out that people associate you with those characters that they often do and well, yes, there are many? I mean, I enjoyed a lot of the work that one did in the movies and, you know, we don't disrespect each other. I worked, I enjoyed it a lot, but a lot of other things I couldn't handle and when I figured it out, I finally got to the point where I thought five was enough and I left, yes, but I went back to the sixth. They were fascinating images, although many people enjoy them.

They were fascinating images and effects. I asked Mike what he did before becoming an actor. What did you do? Sean. when I became an actor when he was 22 years old. He had lots of different jobs and worked for the Edinburgh evening news and came to London for the Mr Universe competition. I was a weightlifter at the time and I came representing Scotland because, well, they didn't have anyone in the tall man class and during the time I was there they had auditions for South Pacific, so I went and told them I was an actor and I sang some bars and he really bought into it and so I quit the paper and then I went on tour with South Pacific, that's where it ended and when you started making movies, did you have a little more of a Scottish accent now or a little more?

Well, I've always had a Scottish accent. I am very reluctant to lose it. I've always... well, he's the same one that he's got, that he's still got a new cockney tip and I think Burton still has it. Basically, you don't want it, it's kind of roots, right? never ever anyone can say where I come from and I'm not saying I'm particularly proud of something I said that's me and that's it so I think it's a period when uh there used to be more uh it was necessary to have uh definitive BBC type negative voice in English, which is really no longer necessary.

I mean, I think the United States was as responsible as any country for moving forward at that level, and then all the uh regional dialects that you know, like all the guys like uh lotul and Finney and Harris. and Courtney and Bates Michael that all the Northern Irish suddenly started to have so much meaning and color, I think more than the English right, because the Americans always had the first working class actors, anyway, we never, I want I mean, you had them in the '30s, when you had Muni Robinson Cagney Bogart and they were working class characters with different kinds of working class voices in England, you never had that, I mean, 1948, when I walked into an office I said I wanted a job with a Cockney accent, they say well.

We don't have any newspaper Guys on the street corners in this photo, you know, that's an interesting point and as if the 50 million people in England who speak with working class accents didn't exist, it was a precious treasure. some making films few due to some pressures we will take a break we will be back soon stay with us