
Cigarette Girl director JMM is still in a state of post-Connery shock, while producer Adam Hoenberg just looks dazed.
Very possibly the unlikely exchange of the year took place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday 19 June:
The setting: A gala screening of John Huston’s classic, The Man Who Would Be King
Cast: Memphis-based director John Michael McCarthy (JMM) and Sir Sean Connery
The script:
JMM: “Hi, I’m Mike McCarthy from Memphis, Tennessee, and I’m here to show my new film, Cigarette Girl.”
Connery: “What’s it about?”
JMM: “It’s about a girl who gives up smoking and, three days later, she starts killing people.”
Connery: “She gives up smoking?”
[Slow dissolve]
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