Sean Connery, in 2015, in New York.
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A fake letter with a muscular tone resurfaces after the news of Sean Connery's death on Saturday at the age of 90.
The Scottish actor would have sent a missive to Steve Jobs in 1998, in which he declined an offer to shoot an advertisement for Apple.
"I do not sell my soul for Apple or for another company", would have written in particular the Briton.
“I can't think of a faster way to destroy my career than to appear in one of your crass commercials.
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This letter was invented by a parody site.
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The document had already enjoyed some popularity on Twitter in 2011. As
The Washington Post
or the American fact-checking site Snopes
had pointed out at the time
, the letter came from the parody site Scoopterino, which mocked the news of the Apple company .
In a satirical article published on June 19, 2011, the site recounts an anecdote invented between Steve Jobs and Sean Connery.
Sean Connery was the first to play James Bond in the cinema in 1962. He had appeared in seven secret agent films, available on iTunes, Apple's legal download platform.
The Scottish actor had also appeared in several commercials.
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