![]() 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.” “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’. And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, fair enough’. Sean said: “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’. Ned nearly made it through the first series of the show, only to meet an untimely - not to mention shocking - end in the penultimate episode back in 2011 ![]() Sean explained that he’d always been comfortable playing characters who ended up dead - right up until he landed the role of Ned Stark in HBO’s mega-hit Game of Thrones. “I’ve played a lot of baddies, they were great but they weren’t very fulfilling - and I always died.” “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’. 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. In an interview with The Sun, the 60-year-old actor outlined why he’d arrived at the decision after so long. Star of the screen, the best person at saying the word ‘bastard’ and everyone’s favourite gruff Yorkshireman, Sean Bean has made a bold career move…Īfter experiencing the grand total of 21 bloody deaths over his 33-year career as an actor, Sean has revealed that he no longer accepts roles in which he dies.
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