You likely know Sean Bean as the entertainer who kicks the bucket in each film or TV arrangement he plays in. Ned Stark in The Game of Thrones? Dead. Boromir in The Lord of the Rings? Dead. Alec in GoldenEye? Dead. What’s more, the rundown goes on – yet no more. The entertainer who kicked the bucket an entire multiple times on screen says he won’t take up any more jobs where the character he plays passes on.
Giving an interview to The Sun, the 60-year-old on-screen character said he has turned down jobs since individuals would realize his character is going to pass on.
“I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable,” said Bean.
“I did do one job and they said, ‘We’re going to kill you’, and I was like, ‘Oh no!’ and then they said, ‘Well, can we injure you badly?’ and I was like, ‘OK, so long as I stay alive this time’,” joked the actor.
“I’ve played a lot of baddies, they were great but they weren’t very fulfilling — and I always died,” added Bean.
It’s not simply the entertainer that is tired of his characters continually passing on – Bean’s fans were likewise tired of seeing the on-screen character kick the bucket, notwithstanding beginning the viral #dontkillseanbean crusade in 2014.
Bean’s last on-screen demise was on the arrangement of Game of Thrones back 2011, when the character he played, Ned Stark, was guillotined, which means the on-screen character has remained passing free for right around nine years.
Let’s hope we see more of Sean Bean’s characters surviving in the future!
Here’s the full list of Sean Bean characters who have died:
Ranuccio “Caravaggio” (1986)
German Soldier “War Requiem” (1989)
Tadgh McCabe “The Field” (1990)
Carver Doone “Lorna Doone” (1990)
[Robert Lovelace “Clarissa” (1991)
Gabriel Lewis “Screen One: Tell Me That You Love Me” (1991)
Sean Miller”Patriot Games” (1992)
Lord Richard Fenton “Scarlett” (1994)
Alec Trevelyan “Goldeneye” (1995)
Dave Toombs “Airborne” (1998)
Jason Locke “Essex Boys” (2000)
Patrick Koster “Don’t Say a Word” (2001)
Boromir “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001)
Cleric Errol Partridge”Equilibrium” (2002)
Robert Aske “Henry VIII” (2003)
Dr. Merrick “The Island” (2005)
John Ryder “The Hitcher” (2007)
Bryant “Outlaw” (2007)
Loki “Far North” (2007)
John Dawson “Red Riding: 1974” (2008)
Pyke Kubic / Reese Kubic “Ca$h” (2010)
Ulrich”Black Death” (2010)
Markus Kane “Death Race 2” (2010)
Jones “Age of Heroes” (2011)
Lord Eddard “Ned” Stark “Game of Thrones: Baelor” (2011)
Harry “Silent Hill: Revelation” (2012)
Frank Stinson “Wicked Blood” (Bad Blood) (2014)
Inspector John Marlott “The Frankenstein Chronicles: Lost and Found” (2015)
Regis Lucis Caelum “Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV” (2016; animated)
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