Local Scottish actor caught with his pants down upon a visit from Sean Connery

Stewart McLean will never forget the day he met 007, reports the Edinburgh Evening News. But then so would you if you had answered the door in your boxer shorts, only to come face to face with none other than James Bond himself, Sean Connery.

That was a week ago. Today the actor, currently starring in A Happy Medium which is due to visit The King`s next week, has recovered from the surprise.

"We were up at The Byre in St Andrews and to be honest, we knew that Sean Connery was around because he comes up every year to play golf at this particular time," explains McLean. "There had been talk that he might try to come in to see the show but we never gave it a second thought."

"Anyway, at the end of the show this one night I returned to my dressing room and was getting changed when the house manager popped his head round the door. He said, `Stewart, I`ve got visitors for you,` threw open the door and there stood Sean Connery and his friend, Michael Medwin [the veteran British film star who appeared with Connery in Never Say Never Again.]

"I couldn`t believe it. There I was, in nothing but my boxers and a T-shirt. Sean offered his profuse apologies for coming in while I was trouserless and we had a laugh about it but I couldn’t help thinking: `Of all the positions to be in when I meet Sean Connery, sitting in my old boxers - which is not a pretty sight I have to say."

The three chatted as McLean got dressed and then headed off to the bar where Edinburgh`s most famous son was keen to meet the rest of the cast.

"By that time the bar had cleared a bit and Sean met Dorothy and the rest of the company. He was charming. He bought us a drink, we then bought him a drink and he stayed until about half eleven," says McLean. "He was obviously having a ball and that was a real highlight for the company."

Says McLean: "The play isn`t Chekhov, it`s broad. It`s not even pretending to be in any way high-brow, it is just a play to make people laugh with real old basic Scottish humour. That is what Connery liked about the piece.

"He had such enthusiasm for the play that it surprised me. But as he said, `I have never laughed so much for years. It brought back so many memories of Scottish humour, of Baxter, Logan, Milroy, Fulton, all these people.`

"He had this big grin all over his face and loved it so much that he even asked who held the rights for it."

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