As tributes to legendary actor Sean Connery poured in following his death, some controversial comments the star made about hitting women resurfaced.

Connery, who died at age 90 last week, infamously told Playboy in 1965, “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman, although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man.” He added that an “openedhanded slap” is “justified” if “all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning,” and further said, “If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it.”

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