(It's been a long time since I first saw this little interview clip.)
In this video Barbara Walters interviewed Sean Connery in 1987.
In the clip Walters questioned the actor over a 1965 Playboy interview.
Connery told Playboy in 1965: “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman, although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man.”
The James Bond star said that an “openhanded slap” is “justified” if “all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning”.
“If a woman is a b****, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it,” he added.
In the resurfaced interview, Walters asks whether Connery recalls making those remarks to which the actor responds that he remembers and stands by his comments.
“You think it’s good to slap a woman?” questions the broadcaster, who appears visibly shocked.
“I don’t think it’s good. I don’t think it’s bad,” said Connery. “But it depends entirely on the circumstances and if it merits it.”
His response prompts Walters to ask what such circumstances would “merit” slapping a woman.
“Well, if you have tried everything else, and women are pretty good at this, they can’t leave it alone,” Connery replies.
“They want to have the last word, and you give them the last word, but they’re not happy with the last word. They want to say it again, and get into a really provocative situation. Then … I think it’s absolutely right.”
He added: “Seriously, it’s the last resort. He’s not gonna do it because he wants to do it …”
Walters replies: “Wait until people see this interview. You’re gonna get mail.”
Connery replied, “Might get some female.”
In a 1993 interview with Vanity Fair, Connery claimed that his comments had been taken out of context.
“They taped two hours of me and only showed 20 minutes,” he said. “Barbara Walters was trying to get me to say it was OK to hit women. But I was really saying that to slap a woman was not the crudest thing you can do to her. I said that in my book, it’s much more cruel to psychologically damage somebody.”
Connery continued: “That’s what they’re looking for, the ultimate confrontation … they want a smack.”
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