Sean Bean Knows He Dies a Lot On Screen, Thinks Memes Will Be His "Unintended Legacy"

Actor Sean Bean has over 100 film and television credits to his name and has been steadily working in the entertainment industry for the past thirty years. Over the course of the past five or six years, though, it's become obvious that he's died in a lot of those projects, and he's well aware of that: he's watched the YouTube supercuts just like the rest of us. In an interview with Radio Times, Bean mentioned that trend as well as seeing the memes that have his face plastered all over the internet:

“I have died quite a few times to be fair,” the star says in this week’s Radio Times, admitting to having watched montages of his characters’ deaths on YouTube. “I’ve seen that reel of clips – it sounds a bit macabre, but I watched that back, and I’d forgotten some of the scenes I’d died in.”
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“For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing, what do you call them – memes? ‘One does not simply ask for a drink’ instead of ‘One does not simply walk into Mordor’ – that sort of thing,” he says, adding: “They’ll probably be my unintended legacy.”

On one hand, being remembered because of a bunch of goofy memes sounds kind of sad, especially for a guy who has had such a solid career. But on the other hand...at least he's going to be remembered, right? There are plenty of actors who go through their whole careers without being memorable or making a lasting impact on audiences, and even though the internet has co-opted Bean's legacy with memes, he's definitely left his mark.

Via: Uproxx