Sean Connery not taken sherioushly on the phone

New York News Day are reporting a quirky tale of "mishtaken" identity.

The Prague shoot of the coming "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was fraught with tension - sets were wrecked during Eastern Europe`s epic floods and even the cast acknowledges an exceptional amount of trouble between director Stephen Norrington and star Sean Connery.

So there was just cause to go out drinking after a day`s shoot, though Connery, 72, rarely joined the carousing of the younger cast and crewmates.

One night, actor Shane West and a few co-stars and crewmates stopped into the Blue Light bar. West`s cell phone rang and flashed the number of Connery`s assistant, who was expected to join everyone.

"It sounded like he was making fun of Sean`s voice, and I`d already had a drink, so I imitated him right back," West recalled last week in Manhattan.

"We bantered back and forth until I started hearing all these people laughing in the background on his side of the phone."

That`s when it hit West that the Scottish accent he`d been hearing really did belong to Connery, who`d borrowed his helper`s cell phone.

"That night Sean showed up at the bar," West says. "He came up to me and said, `How you doin`, boy?` and he patted me on the shoulder and walked away."

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