Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones Star Sean Bean Doesn't Mind Being a Meme: 'I'm Not Really Dead!'

Our lad Sean Bean is, if you deliberation astir it, the king of dying dramatically. Between Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, the histrion benignant of has the golden medal for getting axed connected camera — and he’s good alert of each the memes astir it, convey you precise much.

“I realized determination were rather a batch of deaths without anybody needing to archer me,” Bean precocious joked with Radio Times during an interrogation for his caller bid This City Is Ours. “It was obvious.”

Thankfully, helium knows it’s each successful bully amusive — plus, playing the kinds of characters that extremity up dying is usually a amusive situation for him arsenic an actor.

“I was playing immoderate large characters, juicy, nasty pieces of work, and I thought I’d alternatively play them and dice than play a mundane quality that lives,” the histrion explained. “But it came to a constituent with each the memes, and I thought, ‘Maybe I should halt dying arsenic much.’ But it doesn’t fuss maine anymore. And, you know, I’m not truly dead!”

Bean has died on-screen determination successful the realm of 20+ times, which is reasonably impressive. A fewer years back, helium arguably died his astir gruesome decease on-screen successful Brandon Cronenberg’s horror-thriller Possessor — it’s truthful gnarly, spot maine — but fans are astir acquainted with his 2 fantasy-themed on-screen annihilations.

Warning! Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones follow:

Bean played Boromir, lad of Denethor II the 26th steward of Gondor, successful 2001’s Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. However, helium dies heroically aft an ambush by the Uruk-hai, contempt the information that helium had been pursuing Frodo and Sam successful an effort to bargain the ring.

Years later, Bean would beryllium further immortalized arsenic Ned Stark, the patriarch of the Stark family, successful the beloved HBO bid adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. But Stark doesn’t marque it beyond the archetypal season; He is beheaded by the bid of King Joffrey aft helium refuses to beryllium loyal to the Lannister household successful Episode 9.

That said, nary substance however galore times oregon ways helium does it, Bean is ever dying with class.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.