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Sean Bean

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RachelTopliss · 20/07/2023 08:00

One trick pony. AIBU?

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finewelshcheese · 20/07/2023 09:43

TallulahBetty · 20/07/2023 09:20

99% of the time he does play the same character, yes. See also: Hugh Grant; Damien Lewis, Jason Statham

Damian Lewis? He's totally different in everything he's been in!

GoodChat · 20/07/2023 09:38

Star0Fire · 20/07/2023 09:37

He was excellent in Snowpiercer

Agreed - a really diverse and complex character

Star0Fire · 20/07/2023 09:37

He was excellent in Snowpiercer

Tabitha005 · 20/07/2023 09:37

I think Sean Bean has made a great living from basically just playing himself - like Sean Connery and John Cusack who are also, in my view, 'one trick ponies', although that's not to say I don't/haven't enjoyed some of their movies.

The actor that baffles me is Liam Neeson. I feel like he's been spectacularly miscast in pretty much anything he's ever done. How on earth he's got this career as a 'Hollywood hardman' type amazes me.

FanFanFanFanYam · 20/07/2023 09:36

I suppose he plays similar-ish parts sometimes but I really like him. He’s a good actor, and I’ve rarely seen him in anything I didn’t like. He was great in Game of Thrones, really pitched his performance well, and the recent prison drama was brilliant.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/07/2023 09:34

I wish I'd watched Sharpe. Is it worth catching up with it now?

I love the fact that when the Game of Thrones production team heard Sean read through his lines in his own accent they said 'Great, stick with that' and so when the rest of the men of the north turned up they all had to learn to do a Sheffield accent very quickly.

KateJohns · 20/07/2023 09:32

I like him. Have done for as long as I can remember. I was 13 when Sharpe started and I loved watching that. It's great when Seeny Beany pops up.

Seeny beeny or Shawny Borney
Can't have it both ways I'm afraid. 🤣

Laiste · 20/07/2023 09:28

Sean Bean is Sharpe, for me. Watched it all back when it was first released and loved it. So long ago! Had a real crush on Sharpe.

I keep meaning to re-watch with DH as he's never seen any of it. For DH Sean Bean is Boromir.

gazpachosoupday · 20/07/2023 09:28

DustyLee123 · 20/07/2023 09:22

@bellac11 i watched Cold Mountain recently and noticed Ray Winstone in it. He managed to still play himself, just with a dodgy American accent 😂

This is why I like Sean Connery, no matter what nationality he was, always sounded Scottish

HundredMilesAnHour · 20/07/2023 09:26

gazpachosoupday · 20/07/2023 08:40

I saw him in Macbeth with Samantha Bond, he was really good.

And at least he does play different characters, Sean Pertwee plays Sean Pertwee in everything he does, still love him though

Same. We sat on the third row and he was absolutely excellent. A Yorkshire Macbeth but a very good one.

NobodysNose · 20/07/2023 09:24

IMO Sean Bean is a great actor but has been married too many times... leading to too many divorce settlements...leading to having to take more roles (and be less selective) than he should have been for his talent.

Not that it matters much what I think - though I am heartened to hear he's a lovely man.

DustyLee123 · 20/07/2023 09:22

@bellac11 i watched Cold Mountain recently and noticed Ray Winstone in it. He managed to still play himself, just with a dodgy American accent 😂

the80sweregreat · 20/07/2023 09:22

I like him as a actor, but I think his private life is a lot more complex

TallulahBetty · 20/07/2023 09:20

99% of the time he does play the same character, yes. See also: Hugh Grant; Damien Lewis, Jason Statham

DustyLee123 · 20/07/2023 09:20

He goes as Seen Bean or Shorn Born in out house, he’s such a versatile person that he can do either 😉

DustyLee123 · 20/07/2023 09:19

@AlecTrevelyan006 yes, I’ve got it on DVD !

Badger1970 · 20/07/2023 09:18

I loved him in Lady Chatterley's Lover with Joely Richardson, thought he was amazing in that. And there was another short series where he played a man having an affair with an american woman - that was also really good.

Def not a one trick pony.

heldinadream · 20/07/2023 09:18

smilesup · 20/07/2023 08:05

That prison thing was amazing. The main complaint I have about his is that as a dyslexic this name is complicated to compute as it should rhyme 😁

😂I love this. So he's either Sheen Been or Shorn Born. I love this so much.

Blanketsburg · 20/07/2023 09:16

newnamethanks · 20/07/2023 08:37

Anyone who thinks Hugh Grant is stealing a living by just being Hughie should watch him playing Jeremy Thorpe. Excellent.

Or that thing he was in with Nicole Kidman a year or two ago where he played a charismatic husband suspected of murder.

There was an amazing moment where, without seeming to do anything much with his face, the mask slipped away and you just saw this chilly, terrifying void of a person. Really excellent face acting.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 20/07/2023 09:15

I've only watched a few episodes of Game of Thrones years ago but was traumatised by what happened to him on it! Put me off watching it again!

ThelmaBorden · 20/07/2023 09:10

my all time favourite fwiw was the brief glimpse of him in M&S Christmas commercial amongst a host of celebrities Men bearing gifts total yum

AlecTrevelyan006 · 20/07/2023 09:10

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpoLVVfl7s&pp=ygUbd2hlbiBzYXR1cmRheSBjb21lcyB0cmFpbGVy

anyone remember this typically British film? Wasn’t as a big a success as The Full Monty or Brassed Off but just as good.

WHEN SATURDAY COMES Trailer

Trailer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpoLVVfl7s&pp=ygUbd2hlbiBzYXR1cmRheSBjb21lcyB0cmFpbGVy

SophisticatedWoman · 20/07/2023 09:08

Movinghouseatlast · 20/07/2023 08:58

He's a fab actor, he has played loots of diverse roles in recent years. I saw him in ( I think) his first job playing Romeo at the RSC 30 odd years ago.

Apparently when he's not working he still works as a welder because he loves doing it.

I saw that production. Niamh Cusack was Juliet. Circa 1986.

Sighhhhh · 20/07/2023 09:08

No. He was also in that BBC show “Marriage”….the complete opposite of a villain and he was good in it.

TheWernethWife · 20/07/2023 09:06

I adore Sean Bean, a proper northern actor. Brilliant in Sharpe.