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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 17 March 2018
Sean Bean on his many deaths and 'Game of Thrones' legacy

By MARK KENNEDY ing in films. He doesn't take
AP Entertainment Writer jobs on where he dies in
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean films. He doesn't think it's a
Bean is as famous for his good vibe or good karma.
rugged looks and thick So I don't know where that
northern British accent as leaves me. I can under-
the many creative ways in stand that but I've done
which he dies onscreen. it so many times. It's not
He's been stabbed, shot, intentional but I know I'm
chased off a cliff, tossed off high up in the death table.
a satellite dish, beheaded, But they've all been quite
exploded, killed by arrows, memorable. It's a surprise
and drawn and quartered when I survive. A quite nice
in everything from the surprise for me and, hope-
Bond movie "Goldeneye" fully, for the audience as
to "Game of Thrones" and you always think I'm going
"The Lord of the Rings." to die.
For his new series, the York- AP: Actually, we're a little
shire-bred actor shockingly shocked you managed to
makes it to the end of the survive through the first sea-
season. In "The Oath," on son of "The Oath."
Crackle, Bean plays the Bean: There was talk about
imprisoned patriarch of a This image released by Crackle shows Sean Bean, left, and Ryan Kwanten in a scene from the me dying in it but they liked
gang of rogue cops. It's a Crackle original series, "The Oath." what they saw, what I was
brooding, dark and violent doing, and I think they de-
look at how corrosive cor- (Laughs.) You just do it with my scenes by, I suppose, AP: Is there a second sea- cided to extend his life a bit
ruption can be. facial expression. They do July, something like that. son in the works and are more.
Bean, 58, talked with The actually tend to be men- I'd been gone about three you a part of it? AP: Can we talk about your
Associated Press about the of-not-many words sort of weeks when I started pick- Bean: Well, I don't die in it. accent? It seems like many
new series, his many deaths characters — I quite like ing it up on the news report. Well, maybe I shouldn't tell directors leave you alone.
and why he's pleased that that. I don't like saying too It was pretty bad, you know. you. You know, everyone Bean: Unless there's a rea-
he's left his mark on "Game much. I don't like too much I know it gets storms in that expects me to die, don't son to change it, I usually
of Thrones" long after losing repetition. part of the world but I never they? I think there's talk of use how I speak now. Not
his head. AP: The series is shot in Puer- thought it would be as bad it. I think they're seeing how too broad.
AP: This is another tightly to Rico and had to con- as that. I thought about it goes down and see what If I spoke really broad York-
wound, sinister character. tend with Hurricane Maria the people there who wel- the reaction is. shire, people might not
What attracts you to them? in September. The cast comed us with open arms. AP: Can we talk about your understand what I'm say-
Bean: I guess when your and crew returned to finish They're very friendly and many deaths? Does it af- ing. I kind of tone it down.
character is in darkness or filming after that monster hardworking people and fect your choices? It suits the characters that
is very cerebral and con- storm. Was it hard? it was just a shock to think Bean: I don't mind. I remem- I play, many of them any-
tained, you don't have Bean: I was there for the that they were there and ber Sean Connery once way. Certainly it suited Ned
to learn as many lines. first few weeks. I'd finished the power was out. said that he doesn't like dy- Stark. q

Actress Yara Shahidi hopes

to inspire tiny acts of good

By ALICIA RANCILIO 2030 in support of the Unit- million times.
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress ed Nations' Sustainable De- Shahidi, 18, says to look
Yara Shahidi wants young velopment Goals (a list of no further than this week's
people to know that little 17 ways to make the world student walkout to protest
by little, it's possible to make more peaceful, equitable gun violence and the up-
a difference in the world. and healthy.) coming March for Our Lives
The star of Freeform's Participants are encour- rallies as an example that In this March 3, 2018 file photo, Yara Shahidi arrives at the CHA-
"Grown-ish" is one of a aged to post their own ef- young people are social- NEL Pre-Oscar Dinner in Los Angeles.
group of influencers across forts to do good on social ly engaged and want to Associated Press
the globe taking part in a media — using the tag make the world better.
movement called Little x #LittlexLittle — and share She also says there's a ben- Her own personal exam- down climate change, can
Little. There are more than ideas, which range from re- efit to the abundance of ples of doing good include add up to a big difference.
2 billion people worldwide ducing meat consumption time they spend on their contributing money and "Everybody wants to feel
born between the mid- to ditching the car and bik- phones. time to causes within a mile like a superhero in their own
1990s and mid-2000s mak- ing instead. "Because of our intercon- radius of her own home. way," Mercado said. "With
ing up Generation Z. In the two weeks since a nectivity, we see people Another influencer taking social media we can liter-
Little x Little's goal is to in- "Little x Little" anthem vid- that aren't directly in front part is disabled model Jillian ally connect with the whole
spire as many of those Gen eo launched on YouTube of us and understand Mercado. She's posted a world, have conversations
Z'ers as they can to do 2 explaining the project, it's there's something greater video online to remind oth- and see that every single
billion tiny acts of good by been viewed more than 15 to contribute to," she said. ers who small acts to slow person has a voice."q