Focus on Sean Connery’s exceptional cameo in the very last seconds of “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”.
Signed in 1991 by Kevin Reynolds (director of Waterworld) and starring Kevin Costner, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is one of those films that accompanied the adolescence of many viewers and which we think back on today with a little touch of nostalgia.
For nearly two and a half hours, this medieval epic manages to revisit the myth of Robin of Locksley by populating it with colorful characters (for example the ineffable Sheriff of Nottingham masterfully played by a completely unchained Alan Rickman) and embellishing it with numerous and exhilarating battle sequences.
One last surprise!
Truly enjoyable right up to its final seconds, the film reserved a final surprise for its audience in its final sequence. Once the confrontation between Robin and the sheriff was over, we witnessed the marriage of the protagonist and Marianne, in Sherwood Forest.
The ceremony, led by Friar Tuck, could have remained quite classic, if a surprise guest had not intervened right in the middle of the wedding:
“Wait! I’ll talk!”exclaimed an unknown voice in the distance.
When we saw the newcomer’s face, our amazement was twofold. Indeed, not only was it Richard the Lionheart, Marianne’s cousin and the true King of England returning from the Crusades, but he was also played by none other than… Sean Connery.
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30 seconds on screen
“I am forced to forbid this marriage… unless I lead her to the altar myself.”continued King Richard. “You are radiant, dear cousin. It is I who am especially honored, Earl of Locksley, thanks to you I have kept my throne.”
For about thirty seconds (the last of the film), we had the pleasure of seeing the first actor to play James Bond appear on screen, in a role that was worthy of his career.
The British actor, who would soon play another mythical sovereign (since he was to play King Arthur in Lancelot, four years later), is said to have received a fee of 250,000 dollars for this sequence alone. A sum that he nevertheless decided to donate to charity.
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