11 days ago · Italy
‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a crime & justice story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Italy. The first report grouped here was at 5 Oct 2026, 13:53 UTC. The headline in use is “‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
‘When I couldn’t do the spitting scene, Sean took me aside and said: “Ron, if you don’t actually spit in my face, we’ll be here all day.” So I let one fly – and kept having to redo it’ I read an article about a curious book that had great…
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‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose
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