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This unpublished series in four episodes of the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” is an exceptional document on a cult actor: Sean Connery. The eternal face of James Bond, the father of Indiana Jones, the Oscar-winning actor for his role in Brian De Palma’s film “The Incorruptibles” (1987)… disappeared on October 31, 2020. What is less known , is that he had lived for fifty years with a Frenchwoman, the painter Micheline Roquebrune…
This unpublished series in four episodes of the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.), signed Stéphanie Renouvin, Nicolas Bozino, Raphaël Aupy and Louis Mathews, is an exceptional document on a cult actor: Sean Connery. The eternal face of James Bond, the father of Indiana Jones, the Oscar-winning actor for his role in Brian De Palma’s film The Incorruptibles (1987)… disappeared on October 31, 2020. What is less well known is that he had been living for fifty years with a Frenchwoman, the painter Micheline Roquebrune.
She was much more than a wife to Sean Connery, whom she also advised, defended and protected. Before meeting him, she had already had several lives: forty years spent in the Maghreb, two marriages, three children… Her name is Connery, Madame Connery… And it was to her granddaughter, the journalist Stéphanie Renouvin, that she told the story of his life and images that no one had ever seen before…
She played a decisive role with Sean Connery for half a century
“Don’t call me back, ever!” This is what Micheline has just said to the world star of cinema. She seems to have decided that he won’t make her head spin. She returns to her life, to her daily life as an expatriate, more and more alone. Her marriage does not make her happy. Will she be able to accept a situation that no longer suits her? Will she be able to leave? How far will her taste for freedom take her?
At ninety-three, Mrs. Sean Connery recounts without jargon her romantic life, her dramas, her three marriages, and her great love, Sean, with whom she played a decisive role for half a century. When she was about to leave everything to join Sean Connery in England from Morocco, her jealous husband did everything to stop her…
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