Guest of Europe 1 in 2014, Christophe Lambert told how Sean Connery, who died on Saturday at the age of 90, had made life impossible for the producers of the film "Highlander" by claiming a helicopter as a means of daily transport. 

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"He's someone who likes straight people, and the producers weren't right."

This is how Christophe Lambert began in 2014 the story of a memorable anecdote about Sean Connery, who died on the night of Friday to Saturday, at the age of 90.

Guest of Europe 1, the French actor had told about the shooting of the film

Highlander,

which said, according to him, a lot of the character of his Scottish colleague. 

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A helicopter in the colors of his costume

"He had the producers so much in the nose, that he said to himself: I'm going to piss them off", summarized Christophe Lambert.

"We lived in a hotel which was literally 30 seconds or 40 seconds by car from the set… And he forced them to order a helicopter, painted in the colors of his costume, that is to say burgundy, which was posed. in the courtyard of the castle. "

“By the time the helicopter took off and landed on a small hill which was 50 meters from the shoot, I arrived before him by car,” the actor laughed again.

"He got out of the chopper, he looked at the producers and he said: 'are you guys okay?' The chopper waited all day on the little hill, in the evening it went up, he said: 'goodbye boys' . 

“For four weeks, it cost them a fortune,” Christophe Lambert concluded.

Moral: We should "not piss off" Sean Connery.