Sean Connery Verbally Ends Acting Career

Sean Connery verbally said he is ending his acting career after ~50 years of service.

"I'm fed up with the idiots ... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies," Connery says. "I don't say they're all idiots. I'm just saying there's a lot of them that are very good at it [being idiots]. It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie."

I didn't know that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

"Yeah, well, I never understood it," he said. "I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it."