Is Connery the ultimate "manly man"?

I quite like Hugh Jackman but I've never seen him as a successor to Connery in the 'manly man' stakes. It takes more than being roided to the eyeballs. I'm struggling to think of anybody with Connery's combination of physicality and attitude.

I’m so glad someone brought up this movie, I really like it, it’s sort of a ‘western in space’ kind of film.

I’m not sure Connery can be replaced but Jason Mamoa is a pretty tough big dude for action pictures👍

Real men do not hit women just because they can. https://x.com/yashar/status/1322585791046934534?

I'd say John Wayne is.

The best scene is when Connery goes to Boyle and nonchalantly, almost playfully brags about flushing his expensive shipment down the toilet. I could just imagine how much anxiety and stress I'd feel if I were to attempt the same thing, probably deathly nervous I could be killed at any moment. Connery is pretty much isolated from everyone except the doctor all movie but it doesn't seem to really bother him that much. I think that to me indicates that his character is meant to not easily succumb to pressure which is a very admirable (and rare) quality that conveys the ultimate self-control, a sort of zen mastery if you will. It could also just be lazy writing and acting, but I prefer to think otherwise.

Suitable "Tough Guy" actors today in the same vein as Connery and Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, etc? Well there really aren't too many. Idris Elba gets some accolades here and there plus I think Stallone has a good "tough, but fair" presence even well into his 70's. Brad Pitt could possibly tackle the same niche though he'd really have to give it his all. I was pretty impressed with his character in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

In my opinion, yes Connery is the ultimate manly man. And I say this for several reasons.

First, he was one of the very few movie stars who was always honest about wearing a hairpiece or a toupee. He never denied it and always turned up to the Bond premieres without one. When he was completely bald by the eighties, he was asked by Barry Norman (the top film critic in the UK at that time) why he wears one for some roles like Never Say Never Again and not for others The Man Who Would Be King for example. He just simply said bald doesn't suit some roles, like Bond. Other movie stars from around the same time either got hair transplants or were always in public with a toupee. So been comfortable about his hair loss at that time when baldness was a stigma is the first thing.

Second, he remains the only male movie star who was so completely comfortable in his own skin that he could pull off any look in any era without looking silly. Seriously, just imagine Steve McQueen with long braided hair wearing a big red nappy like Connery does in Zardoz. Or Clint Eastwood looking like Connery does in Last Crusade with glasses, a deer stalker hat, tweed suit and a bow tie? They'd look absolutely ridiculous and well out of their comfort zone. Connery had a unique ability to suit whatever era he was and any costume he wore. That's real cool.

Third, he was an hard bastard in real life. Michael Caine said they were out drinking one time in the 60's and a couple of blokes picked on Connery for a fight. Connery told them to go away but they kept on because they wanted to fight "James Bond", Connery runs out of patience, takes them outside and beat the shit out of them while Caine got a couple more pints in😂

Then there was the American gangster that he beat the shit out of with a handgun in the late 50's who was going out with Lana Turner.

Yes, there's other film stars I Iike as much as Connery but Connery was the ultimate manly man in showbiz.

Today's young generation of actors are too boy toy underwear model type of actors and will never be Sean Connery type of manly and I'm surprised he never caught flack from today's audience for being too manly since we live in this Era now of the low testosterone type of masculinity that turns on people like Jen Psaki apparently.. 🤔