“Game of Thrones” actor, Sean Bean no longer wants to play roles who eventually just get killed. He also thinks his character, Ned Stark, died too early on the series.
Bean’s characters throughout his career have been memorable. Not only because he performed them so well. Instead, they are often remembered for so long because they eventually die and they make people feel things.
Notwithstanding how much fun he had with these roles though, he no longer wants to do them. He thinks that if he takes on one more character that will just die, it is going to be just too predicable for the viewers.
“I’ve turned down stuff." Bean told 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."
He recounted how he turned down a role who will eventually die recently and how in the end, the plot was changed. To accomodate his hesitation, the character was written to be injured heavily instead, rather than dying.
“I did do one job and they said, ‘We’re going to kill you’, and I was like, ‘Oh no!’" Bean explained. "And then they said, ‘Well, can we injure you badly?’ and I was like, ‘OK, so long as I stay alive this time’... I’ve played a lot of baddies, they were great but they weren’t very fulfilling — and I always died,” he added.
Even though the first season of "Game of Thrones" is literally years and years ago, nobody can quite forget how his character, Ned Stark died. Now, he shared that he thought Stark died way too early at the season 1 finale.
“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’." Bean explained. "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’. But I wish I’d have got stuck now! But it was very clear what George RR Martin wanted to happen to Ned — and it did.”
This is not the first time that Bean commented how frequent the roles given to him die. Back in 2017, he also mentioned it. On that interview, he said that among all the characters he played, who eventually died, his character on "The Lord of the Rings" is his all-time favorite.
"It’s my favorite death scene, and I’ve done a few,” Bean said. “You couldn’t ask for a more heroic death.”
© 2024 Latin Times. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.