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Sean Bean

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RachelTopliss · 20/07/2023 08:00

One trick pony. AIBU?

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AIBUChitchat · 20/07/2023 09:04

I was worried he'd died again....
I can't think of anyone with a wider range -
Dropped from an antenna, throat slashed, bayonetted, drowned, death by cow, impaled by anchor, decapitated....

Each year we ask ourselves if Seen Bean will make it through unharmed, perhaps the writers strike will make 2024 a safer year.

LadyBird1973 · 20/07/2023 09:02

I quite like him - he gets through wives, mind. He's been married about 26 times now?

Agree with pp on Martin Freeman. He gives me the heebie jeebies (sp? Confused) I was on gollums side in the hobbit!

KimberleyClark · 20/07/2023 09:00

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.

Agreed. And he was terrific in the Bridget Jones films and in About a Boy.

ThelmaBorden · 20/07/2023 08:59

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 08:56

And An Awfully Big Adventure - contemporaneous with Four Weddings - but an entirely different character.

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a revelation in Florence Foster Jenkins, loved his dance in Love Actually, go Hugh!

Mrsjayy · 20/07/2023 08:59

FatNoMoreSue · 20/07/2023 08:01

He was very good in that prison thing.

I liked him in that.

Yes Sean Bean has made a good living from being a Yorkshire man in everything.

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.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 08:57

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 😁

Make your mind up- seen been or Shaun Baun.

loveourplanet · 20/07/2023 08:57

I think YABU OP. I loved 'Prince' from 1991, think it was a Screen One. It's on youtube

MorePressureMoreRelease · 20/07/2023 08:57

His 'one trick' is acting? I'd say he's pretty busy doing at that and probably doesn't have time to be an astronaut, bin man or orthodontist as well.

Humidititties · 20/07/2023 08:57

He played the part of the husband in Marriage very well, it was quite uncomfortable to watch in parts.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 20/07/2023 08:57

Yes, also the Jimmy McGovern drama where he played the priest, it was excellent.

Soozikinzii · 20/07/2023 08:57

Definitely NOT a one trick pony . Completely transformed himself for the privon onecand the one where he was a preist. Both me and DH were amazed at how good an actor he is .

Whadda · 20/07/2023 08:56

I liked him in that thing where he died.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/07/2023 08:56

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.

And An Awfully Big Adventure - contemporaneous with Four Weddings - but an entirely different character.

AnImaginaryCat · 20/07/2023 08:53

Totally agree OP, sick of him having the same face and voice in everything.

It's a disgrace.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 20/07/2023 08:52

I always liked (fancied) Sean Bean since I saw him in the Derek Jarman film Caravagio in the 80s. He has been brilliant in a lot of things over the years, recently in Time and Marriage, I think it was called.

Davros · 20/07/2023 08:52

I'm not averse to a drop of Seen Bean. I would suggest that Cary Grant was a one truck pony, but I love him, and many others

ThelmaBorden · 20/07/2023 08:50

Gritty in Sharpe
Vulnerable as the sensitive Brendan in Stormy Monday,
snivelling liar/ weak link in Ronin,
famous for dying in films, heroically in LotR,
Masterfully saving Geraldine at the altar in Vicar of Dibley,
Far North, full frontal, see ALL of Sean Bean,
hardly a one trick pony

bellac11 · 20/07/2023 08:48

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 😁

Thats quite interesting. Im not dyslexic but really struggle with the written name!!!

I quite like him as an actor, I like the fact that he did the yorkshire tea advert

A total and utter one trick pony is Ray Winstone. Cant stand him

AnneShirleysNewDress · 20/07/2023 08:46

He's also Seen Been in our house. He was excellent in Broken and Time.

Beezknees · 20/07/2023 08:46

Great actor imo but more than one of his many ex wives has said he's misogynistic.

LakieLady · 20/07/2023 08:46

Dontcallmescarface · 20/07/2023 08:24

At least he can act...Danny Dyer on the other hand is the ultimate one trick pony. I've seen reception class nativities with better acting that he can manage. Every role is Danny Dyer playing Danny Dyer.

Dyer is on my "Reach for the remote" list. I have to turn over whenever he appears on the screen.

I especially hated the trailers for "The Wall". He pronounces "wall" as though it's spelt "waw", and it grinds my gears like mad. It's harder to say it like that than to say it properly, ffs.

Ditto his "about to cry" face, which was more like someone struggling to hold in an epic fart.

Random789 · 20/07/2023 08:44

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.

Agree completely. Getting older has been a gift for Hugh Grant. Once he stopped being the pretty boy he got more interesting roles. He was brilliant in the jeremy thorpe thing. Also as the Paddington Bear baddy.