‘Acting wasn’t an option in Sheffield,’ Bean explains. He was a trainee welder for his father who, having made ‘brass’ with his foundry business, drove young Sean to work in his Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. He grew up in a two-bedroom council house in Sheffield (‘Me mam and dad still live in it,’ he says proudly), and attended the local comprehensive but showed little academic ability. Whereas here everyone’s laid back, pragmatic and realistic.’ ‘You can never enjoy a meal without hassle and everyone’s promising everything and a lot of it is bull. ‘It’s good working in America up to a point, but to overstay your welcome is not a good idea. ‘I feel more comfortable here, it’s where I’m from and people are like-minded,’ he says. He spent eight years in Hollywood but the mention of it provokes a sigh. Gunning for glory: Sean Bean starred as the title role in ITV's award-winning drama Sharpe To be famous and seen in clubs and bars - is that it?’ But if you court publicity you can’t complain if you get pestered. I feel a bit queasy at the thought of attending premieres and stuff. ‘I like a good drink like the next man,’ Bean says, lighting another cigarette. He is the least luvvie actor I have ever met. He speaks slowly and softly, seems to find the floor fascinating and only makes eye contact when he looks up and flashes a big, bashful smile. He wears his 52 years well - at 5ft 10in he has muscles that still ripple. I’m not a massive fan of science fiction and fantasy, but when it’s got that edge it’s a different story.’ The fantasy of the show was there at the beginning and then goes quite dark. When you’re a kid you’ve got your horse, your sword, your helmet and your armour. In the interview, Bean, who played Boromir in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” franchise, also turned his eye to fan conventions, describing one (unnamed) LOTR convention as “just a cattle market” when he attended as a guest.īean said he would not attend future fan conventions.Fur better or worse: Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones Hall has starred in Broadway productions of shows including “Kinky Boots”, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, and “Cats”, among other shows. This one (referring to Hall) had a musical cabaret background, so she was up for anything.” When the interviewer pointed out that intimacy coordinators can help to protect actors in the wake of #MeToo, Bean responded: “I suppose it depends on the actress. It’s a nice scene, quite surreal, dream-like and abstract. Often the best work you do, where you’re trying to push the boundaries, and the very nature of it is experimental, gets censored when TV companies or the advertisers say it’s so much. In the bizarre Season 2 scene the duo become intimate with the aid of a mango (as in the fruit).īean said: “I think they cut a bit out actually. Lawrence wrote.”īean also decried the censorship of his work at the behest of TV companies or advertisers, citing the “Snowpiercer” TV series, in which he currently stars, where he filmed a scene naked alongside Lena Hall. We were trying to portray the truth of what D.H. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual. “‘Lady Chatterly’ was spontaneous,” Bean said in his interview with the UK’s Times Magazine. “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise,” he added, comparing his experience to the raunchy 1993 adaptation of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, in which he starred opposite Joely Richardson. “Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing…” “It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things,” Bean, who played Ned Stark in the hit fantasy show, said of having an intimacy coordinator in the room, reports ‘Variety’. Los Angeles: “Game of Thrones” actor Sean Bean says intimacy coordinators “spoil the spontaneity” of shooting a sex scene.
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