DR NO TROUSERS
Wesley: Sean wore boxers and slippers on set unless getting filmed from waist down
ACTOR Wesley Snipes has revealed how Bond legend Sir Sean Connery used to shoot movies wearing just his pants.
The 58-year-old movie star – best known for playing vampire hunter Blade, as well as starring in White Men Can’t Jump – said he now did the same as the Dr No icon. Snipes claimed that while working with Sir Sean on the 1993 crime movie Rising Sun, he realised that the actor didn’t wear trousers on set. Sir Sean, who died last year aged 90, only put his breeks on for full length shots, and never wore them when he was filming in cars – because nobody could see what he was wearing on his bottom half.
The Blade star said: “When we were in the car scenes, I was a fully costumed.
“He came in with just a jacket, tie and a shirt – that was it – and (boxer) shorts and slippers.
“I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Should I say something…Mr
Connery doesn’t have his pants (trousers) on.”
He added: “We filmed the whole scene and then he leaned over and says, ‘Why are you dressed in all your suit?’
“I was like, ‘Because I had to do a scene’, and he said, “No son, you don’t need your pants (trousers)…why do you need your pants (trousers) if the camera’s up here?”
Snipes added: “I was like, ‘Wow’, and a light went off – and since then, whenever you see me in a car, unless I have to get out, I’m in my (boxer) shorts.” The Blade star said he only got into acting because he wanted to hang around dancers in leotards.
The actor said: “When I was 15, I went to the High School of Performing Arts, the Fame school in midtown Broadway in New York City.
“When I went there and auditioned and saw all of the dancers – the female dancers who were auditioning too – I knew this was absolutely the career for me.
“I’ve never looked back – it’s the dancers in the leotards who really motivated me.”
THE SNP’s chief whip at Westminster has stood down after being named as one of two nationalist MPs at the centre of a sexual harrassment storm.
Glasgow North MP Patrick Grady has resigned his whip’s position while the complaint is investigated.
We told on Monday how an SNP worker had accused two MPs of harassment.
The staffer claims one male SNP MP inappropriately touched him when he was 19 and accused another woman MP of drunkenly asking him for sex in two separate incidents in London.
An SNP spokesman said: “The SNP has today received a formal complaint. That allows due process to take place and we will not be commenting any further while an investigation is underway.”
The complaint is understood to relate to the details of claims made by a SNP staffer revealed in the Daily Record.
The staffer submitted his complaints to party bosses last month.
He claimed the first incident involved a male MP in The Water
Poet pub in 2016. The party worker told the Record: “I was sitting on a couch speaking with colleagues and he perched himself on the side of the couch.
“At that point, he started putting his fingers down the back of my collar, touching me inappropriately there. He was also grabbing my hair.”
He said he declined to raise the matter further as he did not want to go “head to head with an MP”.
The man said the matter came up later after a third party flagged it up.
He complained of the party’s processes and of being ‘“ambushed” by group boss Ian Blackford who called and arranged a meeting with the man and the MP he complained about.
He said: “He calls me into the office and the other MP is sitting on the couch, crying.”
He claimed the MP apologised and said: “At that time. I felt the only thing I could say was that it was OK. I wasn’t going to tear this guy down in front of me. It was pretty hard for me to watch.”
He added: “I wouldn’t view this as mediation – I would view it as ambush.”
The complainer said the separate incident, involving a female MP, happened in January last year in the Strangers Bar in Westminster.
He said: “She was sitting on one of the barstools having a glass of wine and was clearly very, very drunk. She was grabbing my hand, pulling me closer and saying to me things like, ‘You should come home with me.’
“She was saying things that were completely inappropriate in terms of what she wanted to do when I went home with her.”
The female MP strenuously denied the allegations when approached by the Record. She said: “I am aghast at these utterly absurd and malicious allegations which are completely without any foundation whatsoever.”