“It was sickening and bizarre a horrible, awkward death. If David Lynch made ads for Anchor Butter, this is what they might look like. As the inbred Tadhg McCabe, he struggles to break the shackles of his overbearing father, but ends up getting driven off a cliff by a stampeding herd of cattle and sheep. The only time Bean has been taken down by a cow, The Field is the strangest of the actor’s many terminations. I even had some last words, although I can’t remember what they were." I was really pleased when I saw it, because it’s very sad and heroic. Peter Jackson had a big idea for it and he gave it time to breathe. As he passes on, he has comrades-in-arms Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli by his side. LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)īoromir’s noble death, pin-cushioned with Uruk-hai arrows as he tries to save Merry and Pippin, gives Bean a moving coda. I just went, ‘Fucking hell, I’ve got an anchor through my chest! I’m not going to survive that.’” The producers said: ‘We’ve got to make sure Sean’s really, really dead’. “Big Hollywood studios don’t know how to kill off the villain at the end. Eventually a combination death was settled on, involving a boat hook and a giant explosion. With the LA riots in full swing outside, Bean was called back to Los Angeles three times to reshoot terrorist Sean Miller’s violent end at the hands of Jack Ryan. “I’d look at the script to see what page I got killed on. “There a period when I was getting killed off all time,” he recalls when Empire guided him through a flipchart of his movie mishaps. If your death scene needs the ultimate bower-outer, he’s your man. The Yorkshireman has more than 20 death scenes to his name across film and television, enough to prompt his new crime show Legends to promote itself with the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean.īean has been shot, strangled, beheaded, shot some more, crushed by satellite dish and pulled apart by horses. An actor who’s always likely to end a movie a lot less alive than he started it, Sean Bean is swiftly catching up with the likes of Dennis Hopper and Vincent Price as the master of the on-screen termination.
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