Hollywood Movies where real Cuban Cigars where being smoked?

[Winchester21]

Definitely saw some in Jon Wick 2

lots of Cohibas real or otherwise in lots of movies

Also love Bollions

[Spagelo]

Sorry to necro this five year old thread, but I found an interesting one. I was watching the golf course airplane landing scene from Casino and noticed the band on Pesci's cigar looked like an old Cohiba band. It was shot far enough away that you almost don't catch if you aren't looking for it, so I suspected it was real and did some research on it.

Turns out I was right.

[Chas.Alpha]

Here is my humble guess: With some few exceptions, if the scene in the movie required a Hollywood actor (Arnold) to smoke a Cuban cigar, they either A: Didn't smoke cigars (Few) or B: Made the producer obtain 6 boxes of their favorites (Arnold) and shot the scene in the 1st take!!!

[pjansen]

I remember one episode of Mad Men, when Don Draper’s newest kid is born, Roger Stirling bringing Don what appears to be a box of Bolivar Corona Gigantes. I’m pretty certain they are a prop box because the show was shot in California and all the cigarettes they smoked on the show were actually herbal prop cigarettes because it is illegal to smoke tobacco products in the workplace in California. 

Needless to say watching that show makes you want to pour a bourbon and grab a cigar everytime.

[cigaraholic]

Gene Hackman Monte 2’s in Crimson Tide

Any movie Groucho Marx made....

 Yul Brynner Monte Especial in the magnificent 7

[liquid360]

Always loved that in Scent Of A Woman, Pacinos character requested a Montecristo No. 1.


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[Ford2112]

I always wondered what Arnie lit up in the chopper in Predator.

 

On 6/29/2017 at 4:53 PM, NSXCIGAR said:

If it's the window jumping scene you're referring to, the cigar Paul Newman picks up while saying "It's a pity to waste a whole Montecristo" appears to be a Churchill or possibly a Hermosos No. 3, but it's not a size Monte ever made post-Rev. Obviously, this movie's setting mostly mirrors that of a time prior to 1959 so I guess it's not a total mistake but it's certainly not a figurado vitola. 

Probably--Arnold has said on multiple occasions he is a fan of Monte 2s.

In the first Wall Street movie Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) gives Gecko a box of what I think he said were Davidoffs but I'm not sure. Have to re-watch that one.

In the 2010 Wall Street movie Gecko is seen smoking what appears to be a Cohiba EL. This cigar is either an 04 Cohiba Sublimes or a 03 Cohiba DC, as this movie was filmed in 2009 and the 1966 wasn't yet released. The RG doesn't look that big, but it does look bigger than the 49 for the DC, so I'd go with it being a Sublimes. Not easy to get, even in 09, and would have been very pricey. A box of 25 sold for $3,310 in 2013, so they were probably already north of $2,000 by 2009, or about $80/stick.

We all know the real reason Michael got cancer of the throat!!!

[Capn_Jackson]

In season 2 of Marvelous Ms Maisel, there’s a scene at the Catskills resort where I swear Moishe, Kevin Pollak’s character, is smoking a Partagás. Big red band... not sure what letter it would be. It takes place around 1960. I know the alphabet lines were introduced in the ‘30’s, but didn’t they stop producing them for awhile? Not sure when that gap was. Anyway, I could be wrong but when the scene flashed by I immediately thought “Partagás D4.” Could’ve been any of the letters that were produced at the time, I suppose.

Maybe, probably, it was a prop cigar with a red band matching the size, but the attention to detail was appreciated!

[djmatty]

The series finale of Cheers featured a box of Cohibas prior to the bar's closing. Loved that show.

[mprach024]

11 hours ago, cigaraholic said:

 

Gene Hackman Monte 2’s in Crimson Tide

 

The line “they’re more expensive than drugs” has held up well

[ha_banos]

Not Hollywood. But Dragons Forever opens up with a scene where a box of Cuban Davidoff features. It is a 1988 Hong Kong Jackie Chan movie.

The bad guy takes a cigar, cuts with scissors, looks like a lancero?

 

[Ken Gargett]

On 6/28/2017 at 11:35 PM, mkz said:

Expendables 3: Is that a Monte #2 in Arnold´s mouth?

looks monte for sure. but i do not think monte 2. looks box pressed. at least in a way that would not happen with the 2s. but pure speculation. 

[KCCubano]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

looks monte for sure. but i do not think monte 2. looks box pressed. at least in a way that would not happen with the 2s. but pure speculation. 

Ken, I know you are up to date on Bond movies. I watched Man With The Golden Gun recently. Was Roger smoking Monte 3s? 

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, KCCubano said:

Ken, I know you are up to date on Bond movies. I watched Man With The Golden Gun recently. Was Roger smoking Monte 3s? 

i believe that it was indeed. 

this might be of interest - 

Here’s every cigar James Bond ever smoked

He may not have been an aficionado, but Bonds from Moore to Brosnan — and now Craig — have sparked up cigars on screen

Words: Jonathan Wells

There is a scene in Die Another Day that likely had Bond enthusiasts tearing their hair out. It’s 2002, and Pierce Brosnan’s suave take on the super-spy has just watched Halle Berry channel Ursula Andress — sashaying out of the ocean — when he offers her a sip of his drink. But the drink in question isn’t his classic Martini. It’s not the Scotch & Soda or Old Fashioned 007 favoured in the books. It’s not even a Craig-era Heineken. No. It is — prepare to shudder — a Mojito.

But we can see why. Before Craig, Brosnan’s Bond was the only incarnation of the spy so far to set foot in Cuba, and he did it twice (in both Die Another Day and Goldeneye). So the rum-based, sun-soaked Mojito — while having little footing in Fleming’s fiction — is forgivable. It’s what’s in Bond’s other hand that will really rile the purists: a fat Cuban cigar.

 

 

Because devout readers of Fleming’s books will know that, in all of the author’s 12 novels and two short story collections that feature the spy, 007 never once lights up a cigar. In fact, Fleming seems to have a personal vendetta against stogies. He uses the smell of cigar smoke as a byword for cheapness or sadness throughout his works — and even has the villain of Thunderball, Emilio Largo, deploy a Corona brand cigar as a device of torture.

It’s nasty stuff. And the Bond of the books, as Casino Royale reads, was a cigarette man through-and-through. He went through around 70 a day, smoking “a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street”. But he wasn’t overly fussy. Bond smokes Chesterfields in the Bahamas, Royal Blends in Jamaica, Diplomates in Istanbul and Shinseis in Japan. But never, ever, cigars.

And yet, Eon’s ongoing film franchise has never shied away from cigars. Brosnan was seen to entertain them everywhere from the Cuban coast to the banks of Bilbao. Connery even sparked up once — albeit in the non-official Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again. And Roger Moore, across his seven films, made cigars almost as synonymous with the super-spy as the Martini we mentioned above. So that’s where we’ll begin…

The Montecristo Especial No.1 Cigar

   

When Roger Moore stepped into the iconic role — for 1973’s Live and Let Die — he had one of the film industry’s most outrageous riders in history written into his contact. During his tenure as the man from MI6, which would go on to total seven films, he demanded an unlimited supply of fine cigars. Not only that, he also wanted his Bond to be the first to eschew cigarettes — and plump for cigars instead.

 

His chosen brand? Montecristos. And he smoked several on screen during his time as Bond. But perhaps the most popular was the Especial No.1 — which makes its fiery debut in Live and Let Die when Moore’s Bond uses it to light a spray of aerosol aftershave and kill a snake. Seconds later, he uses the same cigar to burn the wrist of rogue CIA agent Rosie Carver. It’s a memorable sequence. And, thanks to the cigar’s trademark earthiness and wet wood aromas, also a memorable smoke.

Montecristo Especial No.1 Cigar

£24.00

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The Montecristo No.3 Cigar

 

Of course, there was a murmur of discontent from literary Bond fans. And, whether producers heard their qualms or simply didn’t want Bond’s cigars to become too cartoonish, by the time Moore returned in The Man With The Golden Gun, his cigars had shrunk. They still weren’t as small as the Montecristo Media Coronas the actor favoured in real life — but the more manageable No. 3 cigars made for realistic smoking on the big screen.

 

 

 

In the film, Bond can be seen lighting up and discarding a No.3 outside the infamous Bottoms Up Club in Hong Kong, moments before he meets Scaramanga’s henchman, Nick Nack. We also catch Bond enjoying a No.3 when he he deftly pickpockets a Lebanese belly dancer in Beirut, as well as when he and Lieutenant Hip break into Hai Fat’s Bangkok compound.

Montecristo No.3 Cigar

£18.00

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The Romeo y Julieta Churchill

 

In 1965’s Thunderball, Q offers Bond a Romeo y Julieta. There’s no cigar to be smoked, however — as the aluminium case is simply a disguise for an underwater breathing gadget. But while Connery may never have lit a Romeo y Julieta on screen, the brand still shares strong links with the series.

In the novel You Only Live Twice, M is found dining at Blade’s Club. And, although the spymaster is known for smoking a pipe, his dining companion, Sir James Molony, is sold on the idea of a Romeo y Julieta by the head waiter, Porterfield. “The best of the Jamaicans are quite up to the Havanas these days,” Porterfield says. “They’ve got the outer leaf just right at last.”

 

On screen, Bond is all set to enjoy a Romeo y Julieta Churchill in the pre-title sequence of The World Is Not Enough — at a bank in Bilbao. However, before he can light up, 007 has to make his escape with the fortune of British oil tycoon Sir Robert King. It’s only in Die Another Day when Bond eventually sparks up a Churchill alongside that mojito we mentioned above.

Romeo y Julieta Churchill

£29.00

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The No Time To Die Cigar

 

Which brings us to No Time To Die. Bond’s latest outing will be released in November, and sees many returns. Christoph Waltz will return as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The Aston Martin V8 Vantage Series III will return — for the first time since 1987’s The Living Daylights. And Cuba will be back on the jet-setter’s globe-trotting agenda. But one of the most exciting developments? Cigars look to be back.

 

 

 

After set photos emerged of Daniel Craig in Jamaica, toting a speargun and chomping on a stogie, it looks like we’re set to see a return of the rough, ready, cigar-enjoying Bond of old. We don’t know what brand it is just yet, but check back and we’ll let you know when we do…

[BrightonCorgi]

On 8/8/2022 at 12:46 PM, cigaraholic said:

Gene Hackman Monte 2’s in Crimson Tide

That is what I was thinking of when I read the topic title.  I remember that scene early on.  I was smoking a Monte 2 in my parents' living room watching that movie with them.

Denzel has to be one of my favorite Hollywood actors.  If he's in it; it's got to be good.  Same with Gene Hackman.

[houdini]