The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Perhaps in Bond 25 we will once again see a James Bond dressed as a more exotic creature than James Bond himself. Then again, Sean Connery was wearing a bear suit underneath his clothes all along and revealed it in a number of scenes throughout his Bond films. But Connery’s time to wear an amusing animal costume finally came with The Avengers. In Octopussy, Roger Moore both operated an alligator submarine and hid himself inside a gorilla suit. Sean Connery never had the opportunity to dress up as an animal in his James Bond films like Roger Moore did. While the Motoluxe Teddy Bear Coat in black would not mask one’s identity, it certainly has a villainous look. Now with Motoluxe under control by the same people who operate Anthony Sinclair, the maker of Sean Connery’s James Bond suits, the Motoluxe coat would have been an even more appropriate choice. Mason & Sons now produces the Motoluxe Teddy Bear Coat and makes it from the same deep-pile alpaca wool that Steiff teddy bears are made of. The Motoluxe brand had been dormant since the 1960s until Mason & Sons recently revived it, so it would not have been an option for the 1998 film, and thus Sean Connery had to settle with a proper teddy bear suit. The Motoluxe Teddy Bear coat from Mason & Sons But it still is difficult for any person to look threatening while dressed as a bear or any other animal in either a cartoonish or realistic-looking suit. The black bear suit makes him look the most villainous of all the teddy bears. The bright colours make the villains look like cute, silly and powerless gummy bears, while De Wynter’s black bear suit gives him a slight menacing edge over the rest of the gang. For each person the bear suits is a different colour, such as red, yellow, green, brown, purple, orange, baby blue and pink. The audience knows its Sean Connery under the mask due to his familiar brogue, so it’s not much of a reveal when he removes his mask.

They only know who their leader is, who is able to remove his mask. Sean Connery plays the film’s villain, Sir August De Wynter, who in one scene leads a gathering of villainous and colourful teddy bears.Ĭostume designer Anthony Powell dressed the people in De Wynter’s evil organisation in teddy bear costumes to mask their identities, including the security guards.

If Sean Connery’s red outfit from Zardoz-something I left few words about on this blog in honour of Sean Connery’s 83rd birthday-is the most absurd getup Sean Connery has worn on screen, his black bear suit from The Avengers-a 1998 film starring Uma Thurman and current Bond-series M Ralph Fiennes and based on the 1960s British television series-is a solid runner-up.

Teddy bear costume