Connery glad he turned down Alexander role
09/02/2005 - 13:31:37Sean Connery is relieved he snubbed Oliver Stone's critically-mauled Alexander after early reservations about the coherence of the movie persuaded him not to appear in the epic.
The 74-year-old Scottish actor rejected the role of Philip, which was eventually played by 45-year-old Val Kilmer, because he was unimpressed with the script's "dense" re-telling of the Macedonian warrior's life.
Connery tells Hotdog magazine: "I had reservations about the script because I thought the story was too dense, and I wondered, if you are going to say all these things then where is the movie?"
The $150m (€117m) movie has since only generated $34.3m (€26.8m) at the American box office, while star Colin Farrell's broad Irish accent has been widely ridiculed.
