![]() ![]() Martin’s legends are bleeding into his real life. I’ve never done anything like that before. It’s like me playing a part, playing a part. It’s such a joy to have this opportunity as an actor, not just to be playing the part, but as you said, playing multiple parts. As opposed to a regular cop show, it’s got these wonderful, psychological dreamlike qualities, which excited me very much. When I first talked to Howard Gordon, his enthusiasm is infectious and when he outlined the premise, I was totally blown away by it. It seems like you have the best of both worlds: the stability of a regular TV gig, but multiple characters to jump around to and play.Ībsolutely, yeah. ![]() The actor talked, and laughed, about life after onscreen death, his toughest death scene to film, the time he almost died for real-and why we may not have seen the last of him on Game of Thrones. His infectious smile is permanently plastered on his face, and he punctuates most sentences with laughter, emotions that are foreign to almost all of his characters over the years. Spending time with Bean is somewhat disconcerting after seeing him play so many somber, doomed roles. He really anchors the show, and he’s amazing.” “The only thing I will say is, he doesn’t die at the end of the season,” promises Legends showrunner and executive producer David Wilcox. The show’s clever marketing hook: #DontKillSeanBean.Ĭertainly, starring in a TNT series would indicate that Bean will finally enjoy some onscreen longevity-after all, Rizzoli and Isles certainly aren’t meeting their maker anytime soon. Martin can expertly morph into his different “legends” (FBI-speak for a fabricated identity)-everything from a weapons broker to a corrupt cop-but his work has left him so psychologically scarred that he’s no longer sure whether even Martin Odum is real or just another legend. ET/PT) as Martin Odum, an undercover agent in the FBI’s Deep Cover Operations division. The actor stars in Legends, the network’s new drama (debuting Wednesday at 9 p.m. (Yes, he’s also made it through several films intact, including National Treasure, Ronin, and Troy, but what’s the fun in that?) Bean is to dying onscreen what Kevin Bacon is to being connected with every other actor.īut TNT is giving Bean a new lease on life. ![]() His 20-plus deaths-so many that even Bean himself has trouble remembering them (see below)-have been chronicled in the Sean Bean Death Reel, which has been viewed more than 2 million times. He’s been shot, blown up, hanged, buried alive, impaled, crushed, drawn and quartered, and even, somehow, run off a cliff by a herd of cattle (in 1990’s The Field). For decades, he has made his living by dying in films like GoldenEye, Patriot Games, and The Island. The actor is most famous for a pair of spectacular onscreen deaths: going down swinging while being skewered by arrows as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and especially his shocking Game of Thrones demise as Ned Stark, who seemed to be the show’s star until his head was stunningly chopped off late in Season 1.īut Bean’s death toll didn’t stop there. Spoiler alert about Sean Bean’s acting career: He dies. ![]()
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