Sean Bean Reveals His Favorite Onscreen Death and Explains Why
Sean Bean has gone through a shit-ton of onscreen deaths throughout the course of his career. He's been beheaded, pulled apart by horses, driven off a cliff, shot in the face, crushed by a flaming satellite dish, and skewered with an anchor, and more.
During an interview with EW, the actor revealed that out of all the deaths he's experienced in his career he revealed that Boromir from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is his favorite death. As you know, he was shot with some gnarly arrows while protecting the Hobbits at the end of the movie. The actor explains:
“It’s my favorite death scene, and I’ve done a few. You couldn’t ask for a more heroic death.”
It was revealed at one point that Jackson considered using CG arrows for the scene. Thankfully, he opted to use a metal breastplate under Bean’s clothes. The report goes on to say:
For that final moment with Aragorn, he and Viggo Mortensen met with Jackson and co-screenwriter Fran Walsh the night before shooting. Over beers and a bottle of wine, they came up with Boromir’s dying words: “My brother, my captain, my king.”
Bean goes on to give some pointers about how to deliver a perfect death scene because he's obviously the expert.
"You can’t show off. You can’t be vain or posing…. Because every time you die, it’s a big f—ing moment!"
I'd have to say that this is my favorite onscreen death of Sean Bean, what's yours?