Sean Bean has previously admitted he’s “turned down” movie roles because his characters dying has become so “predictable” – he’s had enough of their deaths.
As reliable as the sun rising and as predictable as it will set, Sean Bean’s characters meeting their untimely deaths is just something that audiences have grown to expect thanks to so many years of reinforcement. The 65-year-old English actor famously met a quick end in both the first The Lord Of The Rings movie and the first season of Game Of Thrones, the two most iconic fantasy franchises of this century. Sadly for Sean, that’s not even the half of it, and boy does he know it…
Sean Bean has ‘turned down stuff’ because of his character deaths
In 1986, Sean landed his second-ever movie role in the historical drama Carvaggio, and there it began. His character died, and since then, over 20 of his characters across both movies and TV have been killed off.
Whether that’s his villain in the classic ’90s Bond blockbuster GoldenEye or the more recent action horror Black Death, fans have gotten used to seeing Sean Beans’ characters get the cut—or the axe, or pulled apart by horses, or a shot to the head. The list goes on and on.
Of course, this repetitiveness hasn’t been lost on the actor himself.
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“I’ve turned down stuff,” Sean previously revealed during an interview with The Sun. “I’ve said, ‘They know my character’s going to die because I’m in it!’ I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable.”
As somebody who’s heard the He’s not making it to the end joke made literally every time one of the actor’s flicks is on, it’s easy to say he makes a fair point.
“I did do one job,” he remembered. “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’.”
He wishes he’d have ‘got stuck’ with Game Of Thrones
Sean was essentially the central star of Game Of Thrones when it started back in 2011, tackling the role of Eddard “Ned” Stark.
Based on the books of George R.R. Martin, however, Ned’s fate was already written in the stars—or on the page, at least.
“I’d read the Game Of Thrones books and they said to me, ‘You do die in this, but it’s near the end of the series’,” he recounted. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, fair enough’. So they made it very clear at the time I was going to die, and I thought, ‘I don’t want to get stuck in one of these series that lasts seven years.'”
He’s since done a U-turn considering just how much of a phenomenon the show became. “But I wish I’d have got stuck now!” he admitted. “But it was very clear what George R.R. Martin wanted to happen to Ned—and it did.”
Game Of Thrones marked a pivotal point for Sean Bean, encouraging him to avoid too many roles where their deaths are a vital part. “I’ve played a lot of baddies,” he addressed. “They were great but they weren’t very fulfilling—and I always died.”
Following the somewhat hilarious 2014 social media campaign ‘Don’t kill Sean Bean’, there have been plenty of roles where the actor gets to survive until the end, and no matter how many times you witness it, hardcore fans never see it coming.
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