Sean Bean

[RachelTopliss]

One trick pony. AIBU?

Make your mind up- seen been or Shaun Baun.

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 liked him in that.

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

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

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

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? ) I was on gollums side in the hobbit!

He has certainly met a sticky end in lots of films. Which reminds me of this. Warning! contains scenes from films of violence and death

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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