Connery glad he turned down Alexander role

Sean Connery is relieved he snubbed Oliver Stone's critically-mauled Alexander after early reservations about the coherence of the movie persuaded him not to appear in the epic.

The 74-year-old Scottish actor rejected the role of Philip, which was eventually played by 45-year-old Val Kilmer, because he was unimpressed with the script's "dense" re-telling of the Macedonian warrior's life.