An old video of Pierce Brosnan paying tribute to Sean Connery, at a 2007 gala hosted to commemorate the latter, is once again doing the rounds of social media. Connery, who died on October 31, was the original James Bond and made the role memorable over seven films. Brosnan played Bond in the nineties, in four successful films. The video has Brosnan speaking at an American Film Institute (AFI) event, "AFI Life Achievement Award: A Salute To Sean Connery". At the star-studded function, Connery sits in the audience as Brosnan talks about the impact the late actor's 1964 Bond blockbuster "Goldfinger" had on him when he saw the film as an 11-year old.

Brosnan, making a dapper all-black sartorial statement, walks onto the stage and says: "I was 11 years old, and I just left the wild countryside of Ireland and moved to London. The very first week I was there my parent took me to the pictures, as we called them then. This was not unusual in itself, we went to the movies a great deal in Ireland but that day was different because the movie was 'Goldfinger'."