Overview
- Cage, speaking at New York Comic Con on Saturday, said he still regrets turning down multiple invitations from Sean Connery to play golf and wishes he had learned the game with him.
- The actors met on the set of Michael Bay’s 1996 film The Rock, and Cage described Connery as avuncular, a friend, and one of his lifelong heroes.
- Cage said his habit of spending free time fishing and being on his boat kept him from accepting Connery’s golf invitations, a choice he says he continues to lament.
- On the same NYCC panel Cage called Amazon a “very AI‑friendly company,” said he refused an AI waiver for Spider‑Noir, and suggested he may not work with the studio again after the show’s September cancellation.
- Connery’s death in October 2020 frames Cage’s remarks as retrospective, and Cage’s public refusal to accept AI waivers highlights growing actor concern about studios’ use of artificial intelligence.