Nicolas Cage regrets missing chance to play golf with Sean Connery

Actor Nicolas Cage has said he regrets turning down invitations to play golf with his late co-star Sean Connery, reflecting on their friendship at New York Comic Con.

Actor Nicolas Cage has said he regrets turning down invitations to play golf with his late co-star Sean Connery, reflecting on their friendship at New York Comic Con.

The two actors became friends while filming Michael Bay’s 1996 action thriller The Rock. Cage recalled during a panel on Saturday that Connery had wanted to take him to the golf course, but he preferred spending his free time fishing from his boat.

“I was all about fishing (at the time), and I like being on my boat,” Cage said. “And Sean wanted to get me on the golf course.”

“But I never went on the golf course because I just didn’t have time for that,” he said. “I just wanted to be on my boat. I just… when I had my free time, I wanted to go fishing. And I feel to this day that I should have taken him up on it and learned how to play golf.”

Connery, who died in 2020 aged 90, was one of Cage’s lifelong heroes, the actor said.

“When I was a kid, I would go see his movies and think, ‘That’s what a man should be.’ So, to work with him, it was definitely a dream,” Cage said.