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Even so, says biographer Herbie J Pilato, "if anyone was born to play a role, it was Sean Connery and James Bond." Pilato's new book, Connery, Sean Connery: Before, During, and After His Most Famous Role, is being released on the 40th anniversary of Never Say Never Again. The actor was inextricably tied to 007, but before he slid into the driver's seat of Bond's Aston Martin, Sean, who died at age 90 in 2020, felt Bond wasn't a natural fit. A steak-and-potatoes Scotsman who preferred beer over martinis and Levi's over Savile Row suits, he was a self-educated, voracious reader and called himself "more introvert than extrovert." As Pilato tells Closer, "He was beyond James Bond in so many ways. His life struggles toughened him to be perfect for that role. [But] he never forgot where he came from."
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