JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Tiptoes Around the Difficulties Working Alongside the Late Great SEAN CONNERY
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John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones, The Lord of the Rings) joins us this week for one of my favorite interviews yet. The guy is prolific! He gets into everything from his pessimism heading into Lord of the Rings, the intimidation of working alongside Sean Connery, the immense difficulty of filming Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, and so much more. John was an open book this week, going on to talk about the pain of losing a child, his outlook on life after death, and the current vacuum of creativity our industry is stuck in. Hope you enjoy.
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I love how he took a long pause to describe Sean Connery in the absolute best way. So professional.
or it's the AIDS in his brain
Funny, I read your comment about 3 seconds before that moment in the video.
Yeah that long pause often seems to be code for "I'm trying to not say what I really want to say"
professional and kind
Not just professional but respectful.
Taking public pot shots at the dead who can no longer respond to criticism is just base.
The famous electrical engineer Nikola Tesla did this after the death of his former employer, reframing himself as some perpetually aggrieved martyr and the employer Westinghouse as someone who swindled him out of a fortune.
How to say without speaking
I worked with John on a film in Vancouver back in my AD days. Fine gentleman, joy to be around. Of all the actors I've worked with he was and still is at the top of my list.
if you're not talking about sliders then stfu
AD?
@@migalorsdarwin1930Assistant director. There are usually multiple ADs supporting the main director. They can often supervise minor scenes, called second unit, that don't involve the main actors such as crowd scenes and scenery.
I am still trying to make my first Feature Longplay Movie lol since 2017. :( Hugs from Spain
@@Alienfanatic Oh yeah, i could have been more specific, i meant it more like does Mithra mean Assistent Director or something else.
But still i learned a bit more about ADs now.
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES is underrated. Absolutely wonderful character actor.
Very true
ABSOLUTLY AGREE!!
The 2024 tv show shogun reminded me that John was in the 80s version of shogun. He was also in one of my favorite bond films, the living daylights.
@@mr.hulotsholiday If I remember correctly he played a Portuguese sea captain who befriended the main character. He was excellent in that role.
Yes he is!!
As much as I love John from Indiana Jones and LOTRs....I always remember him as Professor Maximillian Arturo.
I loved him sliders, he was my fav of the cast and then he was in command and conquer for me and such a joy!
Macro in I, Claudius.
I still remember him as Vasco Rodriguez in Shogun.
I remember him as Leonardo da Vinci in _Star Trek: Voyager_ ☺
fuckin sliders finally - all the other shit he talks about is basically him dancing around sliders, talk about sliders, more sliders, sliders
Met Mr Rhys-Davies at a con and it was my favorite encounter out of any celeb over years of going. He talked to us for a good 15 minutes like we were old mates (despite being a large lineup) and took great interest in my occupation, going into a soliloquy about the warring factions in my business, each competing with each other. I left feeling I really met a genuine human being. When we went for our portrait, he remembered us and greeted us as friends. And his two beautiful handlers called us by name. He ended up ticking our ribs which resulted in a great and very memorable picture. Can't say enough kind things about this great actor and man.
Had the great pleasure to meet him in of all places Australia 14 years ago. My two sons didn't know who he was but I DEFINITELY did. He was an amazingly kind man and I was so thrilled to have a wonderful chat with him. One of my faves.
I wonder if that was the year he attended the Auckland Armageddon conference? Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand.
@@nicholasmaude6906 It was at Supanova in Sydney
I met Q from James Bond a few years ago in a London station. I asked the obvious question..."Who was the best Bond you worked with. He said Connery was a nice guy but very professional...got on with the job...but he really liked Roger Moore...said he was so relaxed and as so grateful to be doing what he was...never took himself seriously and after a take you'd find him sitting having tea or laughing with the technicians.
Desmond Llewelyn, a few years ago? He must have been dead at least 25 years.
i smell bs
@@hamiltonmews Yes he died ina car crash in 1999. I met him in the early 90's
@@astroboirap Probably smelling your own. He lived in the same town as me. Apart from meeting him at the station in London, I worked for the local Social Services. We invited him to come and speak to a day center group. He did and he brought with him the briefcase used in a Bond film that had knives pop out. They were plastic. If you don't believe me I really don't care. But if you are on Facebook I may be able to show the photo I had taken with him the day he came. So get over it you sad little person.
@@LASTDAYSWATCHMAN777 butt hurt that your attempt at clout has been exposed. Do one
There is a story about sean connery doing one of his first hollywood movies and the lead actress was dating a mobster, one day the mob guy came on set, got into an argument with the actress then started to hit her in front of connery, connery then preceded to kick the shit out of the mobster the whole crew who watched it were flabbergasted and told him you know he's a mobster, maybe you should get out of town a while and connery said basically why should I worry, he comes back I'll kick his ass again.
"Uh, because he'll come back with friends," I'm sure was the response.
Johnny Stompanato is the guy you’re thinking of and Lana Turner is the actress.
Interesting, especially since Connery liked to slap women around himself.
@@r0bw00d"The I will kick all their ashes."
Connery also openly talked about how sometimes women need to be hit.
Sean came from a hard scrabble working class background...he had a bearing that while refined as a star, that working class hunger was never truly diminished. I'm happy for that!
he has a speech impediment, nobody in scotland talks like that
@@tteros5998To him, Scotland had a speach impediment he did not have...
@@hendrikmoons8218 LOL!!! Well said!
@@hendrikmoons8218 This sounds positively Shakespearean.
@@beccastell6439I'm almost in tears, you won ... don't grade me that high, thanks
🤣
When a person takes that much time to choose their phrasing, great care and respect went into the outcome. Wouldn't we all love to hear the real first thoughts though...
Don't mess with Connery's ghost.
connery may have been an asshole but i'm ok with that. being nice is way way overrated.
What he meant to say was he was a tough old bastard 😂
When you get to a certain age you realize that the first words that might come to mind are not always the choicest. John may very well have wanted to find the best words that would accurately describe a friend.
@@ToddSauve Then when you get past that certain age you just sling it like it is cause you only got a couple years left on earth lol. He was very classy with his response much respect.
I met John yesterday. What a cool dude so down to earth and proper gentleman. Was the highlight of the con. I got to meet Shatner too and meeting John was better! The Shat was nice but John made you feel like family.
The Living Daylights, Indy, and Star Trek Voyager for me. But what a huge filmography he has.
Salah is such an important part of Raiders and not to mention Last Crusade and lived seeing him again in Dial of Destiny. Truly one if my all time favorite character’s.
*characters.
Stop adding the apostrophe when it is utterly not needed.
I seem to recall him as “Jonathan Rhys-Davies,” so it didn’t immediately click in who he is until I heard his voice-what a joy to see him again! His voice and diction are still nonpareil.
Exactly the same for me.
the last name is the clue and jonathan and john are of the same vein enough to make the connection. but i have seen both names used throughout his career.
John Rhys - Davis, what a great actor, you could listen to him all day and his interesting stories.
I love stories like these from those that actually knew the people they talked about! Thank you for this!
I would love to hear all of his stories. Love his voice. Such a wonderful interview!! Thank you for having him on…just so fascinating!
buy him dinner first
Robert Mitchum is an amazing call out.
Edit: John and Robert both starred in War and Remembrance miniseries
His description of Connery was as interesting as it was diplomatic and dispassionate.
I'll always remember him as the Middle Eastern friend "Salla" in the "Indiana Jones" films.
Great clip love all the interesting details🤩
This is a great interview Michael.
While Sean was truly a great leading man and superstar I see John as a true working artist and master of his trade whereas every role I’ve seen him in I cannot imagine anyone else attempting his character and he lit up the whole production. My favorite role that comes to mind is in the 80’s Shogun series. Truly an electric performer and never reached Uber status and ultimate caricature of Hollywood arrogance and aloof nimbyism.
sean connery is a fucking terrible actor. name me one role he played that wasn't "vaguely alcoholic overly sexual scotsman with a weird speech emdepidement" he's cool, has a great pressence and a great voice - love his bond, the rock is awesome
he's a fucking awful actor
it's the same as keanu reeves. everyone loves him, forgetting the guy can't act for shit. nice guy - sure - completely incapable of acting in any sense whatsoever.
@@tteros5998 I slightly disagree. He acts great in roles where he is confused or in disbelief (Matrix/Constantine) but has gotten great in John Wick. Superb human being from my beloved Hawaii and lives the Aloha Spirit truly.
@@yhwhsozo3680 that's not acting. that's him walking around confused. without referring to his appearance, or occupation, or plot of the movie - explain to me how his character in the matrix, constantine or john wick differ
@@yhwhsozo3680 keanu reeves is literally the worst actor in the last 50 years to exist in hollywood. i love the guy as a man, but he's always sucked at his job. when the matrix came out, people complimented the casting because he's a fucking robot
Connery, Caine and Davies; three British stars.
"connery was........" I think by this point most people know what connery was, he was the best bond, he was an intimidating guy, he was funny, he had a spárk, and he definitely, definitely was a jerk, and probably not a good person, if you can define the soul and character of a person between good and bad, but the only important thing is that he was a true star and a true presence. We like our actors and stars because of that, we're not judging them based on their heart, they're actors not social workers, people need to stop pretending the people they like are god's souls
No doubt. They're a good entertainer so they're automatically some kind of saint? I've never had a desire to meet an actor or musician. They're bigger than life up on the screen (or stage or whatever), you're crazy to have that expectation of them in real life. Come on, you're nearly guaranteed to be disappointed.
So...He was human.
I was on a film set he was on (Entrapment) at Pinewood Studios back in 1998 and even not far off 70 he was handsome and very charismatic (smiled and was pleasant too). His co-star Catherine Zeta Jones was at the height of her beauty and when she came on set dressed to the nines for the Millennium Ball, people literally gasped.
Connery's almost biographer said that "He isn't the man I thought he was", but also added that Connery "isn't the man he thinks he is!", although she didn't elaborate, it's interesting that he may have had a very skewed view of himself.
This was one of the best♥️ This podcast Rock!!!
I got to meet John last weekend at a con in Indianapolis. The line was long, but worth it.
John is one of my favorite actors. Very talented with a wide berth of experience. Someone needs to cast him in a steampunk series!
What a joy it must have been too converse with him❣
He was wonderful in 'Shogun' !
So didn't get a chance to talk to him myself because i couldn't afford the meet and greet but i was once at a convention and he took the time to visit and say hi to every vendor on the floor which was so nice to see
The movie that was filmed in Switzerland was "Sword of the Valliant," I believe.
yeah. it was titled "the green knight" in my country. had a hunch john was referring to that 😃
met john at heathrow, mid 90's... just me and two mates walking on our own down the departures corridor, and him walking towards up, we said hi, quick chat, autograph, nice guy.
Macro in I Claudius. ❤
I met John at work 5 years back. He was an absolute gentleman.
Just love JRD- Been great in many things, good guy and bad. Loved his Gimli, Sallah, and his voice work for Thor in the 90s Marvel cartoons.
He bottles it when talking about Connery - it's fairly well established that he was a pain to work with - as are many actors
Being classy enough to not speak ill of people isn't bottling it.
@@DenkyManner get off your high horse - actors are shallow, vain and vacuous - nothing to do with class - it's about keeping your bread buttered
The way he describes Sean Connery - it sounds like he's actually describing James Bond.
Cubby Broccoli said that when searching for an actor to play Bond in the first movie, they auditioned every actor and model known, they were all 'off', then in walked the unknown Connery, and they all knew instantly that here really was James Bond.
I met him at a Spectator party years ago he was so lovely and friendly
On that other collab, Sword of the Valiant: Reviewing the film, Time Out London magazine gave it a negative review. It described Sword of the Valiant as "underwhelming" and added "Dreary jousting, production values that make Monty Python and the Holy Grail look lavish, and an excruciating synthesizer score make this a real trial."
You beat me to it. I search John's filmography and it was too long. Sean's was easier and the only film around that time that the two of them were in together was 1984's Sword of the Valiant. It was a lackluster Gawain and the Green Knight. (Has that ever been done well?)
haha that film is garbage in ways other 80s dreck films could only dream of being. truly, spectacularly awful. how they got 1 million bucks to give to connery i'll never know, but they had like a buck fifity left over for the rest of the film.
Thank you for pointing it out.
I was having a hard time looking it up.
@@ericpeterson8732 The recent Dev Patel one is good. Weird, and it won't be to everyone's taste, but good.
I had to pleasure to meet John last summer, OMG, such a wonderful man.
Vasco Rodrigues! Loved him in Shogun!
I remember when he appeared in an episode of Robin Of Sherwood as the King, what an actor.
What a great show that was and still is, so atmospheric. Easily the best treatment of the Robin Hood myth imo.
JRD was incredible as King Richard in Robin Of Sherwood ...now That was an Alpha ....
A great video -but what I’m dying to know is where I can get a Harrison Ford / Indiana Jines model like the one standing behind the Host? It’s amazing.
Wow, Mr. Rhys-Davies was a delight.
I saw an Austin Healy 100/4 at XK’s Unlimited in San Luis Obispo, CA and the tag on it said “Jonathan Rhys-Davies”. I spoke to the owner of XKs Unlimited and said that I didn’t know that Mr. Rhys-Davies lived around here. He said that he didn’t live around here, but when he bought a new vintage car he would send it from the UK to XKs Unlimited to be gone through. Besides the movies, THAT’s my connection to Mr. Rhys-Davies! LOL
I love JRD ,and im never slideing wothout you 🎉🎉🎉
The movie was Sword of the Valiant, a Golan-Globus production.
Vancouver was his second home. Filmed Sliders here for a couple of years too.
Tudors was a fantastic series. Just re watched it for the umpteeth time...
Loved John in the show Sliders - he added so much gravitas
Sword of the Valiant was the other film John did with Sean.
Never heard of it.
@@gregorylapointe4157ofc not, it was a piece of crap 😂😂😂
It was a Cannon movie, explains it. lol
@@RogueDragon05 In all fairness, Cannon had a couple great films, including Fando and Lis (by Alejandro Jodorowsky) and Joe
@@boudusaved4719 Over the Top, He-Man, yea they did but they were the exceptoins not the norm for sure.
Well, they are the roles Sean was cast in meant for. I'll see your Connery with an Anthony Quinn who was his senior but comes to mind.
Legendary star of In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
I had the pleasure of meeting John and asked him what his favorite film he starred in, after a short pause and with a smile on his face "the next one"
It is not a widely seen thing, but his Richard the Lionheart in Robin of Sherwood was excellent. I have always enjoyed his work.
John is absolutely a British favorite!
First saw John Rhys-Davies 22 years ago in Victor-Victoria.
My grandmother went out on 3 dates with Sean Connery when he was filming Dr No in Jamaica.
What did she say about him? are you sure Sean Connery isn't your grandfather?
We need more than that!. What was he like?. Any gossip??
There's no way Sean Connery went on 3 dates with the same woman and didn't hit that multiple times!😂
John played the role mike malone on the untouchables. (Tv series)The same role played by sean in the 1987 movie.
I have been seeing John Rys collabo witb UA-camr "Nerd of the rings" just majic.
Best portrayal of Da Vinci!!!
Few years ago I had dinner and later played cards with Putter Smith (Mr. Kidd from "Diamonds are Forever") and I asked him the same thing, what was Sean Connery like and he said: "Wonderful person. Every morning, coming to set, he will great everybody. He treated everybody equal and with respect. Mind you, Putter is jazz bassist who played with so many famous jazz musicians and also met dozens of celebrities, and he had nothing bad to say about Connery.
I met John a few years ago at a London comic con event and we talked about War and Remembrance. They were filming in Poland (including being the first film crew permitted to film inside Auschwitz). I asked him about filming there.
During the filming Chernobyl happened and they were literally flying in milk from Britain en masse because mothers were coming up and begging for it because all their milk was radioactive. It sounded like their time there was dreadfully difficult, but i got the impression he was proud of the work that was filmed.
In golfinger the man who played odd job recieved more money than Connery because Sean wanted money up front while odd job was paid a percentage of the box
Sword of the Valiant was the movie i think? John Rys-Davies is a great actor whos been in some of the most iconic films of all time. Indiana Johnes, Lord of the Rings, Chupacabra Terror!
I’m just now realizing I’ve never heard him speak with his real accent.
The Last Crusade also the last decent Indiana Jones film and what a cast as well as JRD and the great Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover and River Phoenix to name just a few
Why does John Rhy-Davies make me think of Brian Blessed when I hear his speak?
what was the other Connery film?
An alpha male in Hollywood amongst dilettantes...that was Sean Connery!
surprise surprise Anthony Hopkins is good at impressions, well yeah hes an amazing actor sublime up there with DDL and Alec Guinness. He forgot to talk about harrison Ford, he was Alpha male just like Sean but yes Connery was a Great scot with a heap of charisma
Apparently, the birthrate skyrocketed on the Irish town they were filming Zardoz in. My theory is due to Sean Connery simply walking around shirtless for extended periods of time.
Odd, that Rhys-Davis played the brother of a Connery character in The Untouchables syndicated TV series.. I always wondered how a poor Chicago immigrant Irish family came to have one son raised in Scotland and one in Wales.
The other movie was probably Sword of the Valiant I would guess.
Great welsh man 💪❤️
Robert Mitchum's Max Cady was vastly more scary than Robert De Niro's. The subtlety of the menace in the original Cape Fear had a much more constant tension even when Cady wasn't on-screen.
Usually John Rhys-Davies dies in most of his movies but he does live in some I think personally he likes dying in movies than living but It's just a hunch but John was great in voicing Aladdin's father in "Aladdin and the King Of Thieves" voicing Macbeth in the Gargoyles animated cartoon series.
As Connery's version of King Arthur said, "I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices."
they both had huge chips on shoulder, connery and rhys, scottish and welsh, against the english. And Harrison Ford felt it too, so quite how Denholm Elliot was treated in last crusade is a mystery.
"Bad dates"
What about Ian McKellan and Christopher Lee?
I have to wonder how much time he got to spend with Christopher Lee. I don't think Lee was in New Zealand all that long for LotR. There is only one scene where Gimli and Saruman are in the same place and it's absolutely possible that Lee was filmed separately or that it was filmed with the scale double while JRD was off shooting something else.
Okey aheeem "SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH" that's my chris lee impression" FLY YOU FOOLS" that's my Gandalf impression.
@@joncarroll2040I only meant in the sense of them being legendary British actors
@@joncarroll2040They could have acted together in other things I'm sure. Was he the Knights Templar in Crusade?
I think they were the generation before Connery and Caine.
It's surprising that he struggles a bit with a Connery impression, as he did almost a spit on for Macbeth on Gargoyles.
I love John Rhys, he was amazing as Henry VIII
Gimli really aged after the Battle at the Black Gates in Mordor😂
Was he thinking of Sword of the Valiant?
I wonder if people remember he was the first live action Kingpin.
Sean Connery, bugger that he was, absolutely exuded pure, male, animal magnetism. Some have it, most do not! And it is irresistable to women. It can also be very dangerous to them, but there it is. It must be evolutionary I guess. Survival of the strongest sort of thing, carried over.
(sean connery voice) ohpen phalm shlapp and also its sean Connerys Birthday(que the bagpipes)
Because i know him so well as Salah, its weird hearing him talk in his normal voice and accent. Its like they put someone else's voice in his mouth 😂
Sword of the Valiant (1984)? The "piece of crap" that he refers to.
Sean Connery was the original choice for Gandalf in LOTR. How cool would that reunion have been?
I am Welsh and only just realising after seeing his name he is clearly Welsh
I wonder if the “crap movie” he was referencing was Sword of the Valiant from 1984?
He was trying to think of a movie. I'm guessing it was Sword of the Valiant. It is pretty terrible but has a good cast. Connery was The Green Knight.
Welsh acting royalty , never mind just the other people he’s citing.
I miss Sliders 😁
So Churchill voiced TreeBeard… got it
When Sean was born, the nurse held him upside down, slapped his little bottom and he looked up and said "ISH THAT THE BESHT YEW CAN DEW?"
And then he ravaged her!
😂
Thanks for the laughs! Awshome joke!
Sean was a total power top