diff --git a/OpenSSL/tsafe.py b/OpenSSL/tsafe.py
index 9d7ad2f..3a9c710 100644
--- a/OpenSSL/tsafe.py
+++ b/OpenSSL/tsafe.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 class Connection:
     def __init__(self, *args):
-        self._ssl_conn = apply(_ssl.Connection, args)
+        self._ssl_conn = _ssl.Connection(*args)
         self._lock = _RLock()
 
     for f in ('get_context', 'pending', 'send', 'write', 'recv', 'read',