Editing Sean Connery (section)

== Retirement ==
[[File:SeanConneryJune08.jpg|thumb|upright|Connery at the [[Edinburgh International Film Festival|Edinburgh Film Festival]] in 2008]]

When Connery received the American Film Institute's [[AFI Life Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] on 8 June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting.<ref name="Retirement">{{cite web |last=Dalton|first=Ben|date=31 October 2020|title=Sean Connery, the original James Bond, dies aged 90|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/sean-connery-the-original-james-bond-dies-aged-90/5154555.article |website=screendaily.com|access-date=31 October 2020}}</ref> Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his decision to retire.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hewitson|first1=Michele|date=9 July 2005|title=Sexy? It's all in the hand-shake|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/sexy-its-all-in-the-hand-shake/NFUGZ4M7JNX7WHWFIE6JT6UV5I/|access-date=3 November 2020}}</ref> On 7 June 2007 he denied rumours that he would appear in the [[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull|fourth ''Indiana Jones'']] film, saying "retirement is just too much damned fun".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6733177.stm|title=Connery bows out of Indiana film|work=BBC News|access-date=29 September 2007|date=8 June 2007}}</ref> In 2010 a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in [[Tallinn]], Estonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles and a handful of expatriate Scots.<ref name="Bust">{{cite web|url=http://apnews.myway.com//article/20110127/D9L0R9E01.html|title=Sean Connery immortalised with Estonian bust|website=apnews.myway.com|access-date=24 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101122106/http://apnews.myway.com//article/20110127/D9L0R9E01.html|archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref> In 2012 Connery briefly came out of retirement to voice the title character in the Scottish animated film ''[[Sir Billi]]''. Connery served as executive producer for an expanded 80-minute version.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/7053/Sir-Sean-makes-film-comeback.6218584.jp|title=Sir Sean makes film comeback as a retired vet|newspaper=The Scotsman|first=Alan|last=Carson|date=12 April 2010 |location=Edinburgh|access-date=7 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012033011/http://news.scotsman.com/7053/Sir-Sean-makes-film-comeback.6218584.jp|archive-date=12 October 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>