Sean Bean’s favorite on-screen death was not Game of Thrones, it was LOTR
Sean Bean has a new TV show on TNT. I keep seeing ads for it, especially during Major Crimes. The show is called Legends, and he plays a FBI agent and the “legends” of the title refers to the backstories covert spies and intelligence officers are given while undercover. Like, a CIA agent would pose as a wealthy arms dealer and he would be given a “legend,” a backstory of information pertaining to the cover “character” he’s playing in real life. I have to say, it looks pretty good. I’m probably going to watch a few episodes and see if the writing is any good.
Anyway, Sean has been in NYC this week to promote the show. These are pics from yesterday, and Sean’s hair looks… odd. I hope to God that’s just a bad dye job and not a toupee. So, he’s in NYC and people keep asking him about Game of Thrones and the fact that he dies in pretty much every film and TV show he does. Sean recently spoke to Vulture about GoT and whether he would come back for some flashbacks (Bean said he would love to), and in that interview, Bean bluntly stated that he never believed that he was Jon Snow’s father. Well, he was asked about that issue by HuffPo (go here to see the video) and this is what he said:
“I’m very much doubting that he’s my son … I’ve got my suspicions… [but] I brought him up, I spent all those years looking after him.”
HuffPo also asked about all of his many, many screen deaths and whether he had a favorite on-screen death of all time. My favorite? Probably Patriot Games. But Sean’s favorite is Boromir’s death in Lord of the Rings:
“The death of Boromir was a memorable one for me. The way Peter Jackson shot it, with the music and the photography, it was a very long, heroic death. … That was my favorite one.”
I did see that one and I remember his death scene. It was really drawn out and I felt like we were supposed to geek out on how this major character was dying… but I didn’t really feel anything. I guess I’m just not into the LOTR culture. That being said, I flat-out cried when Ned Stark died.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
