By India McCarty
Sean Bean is opening up about the real story behind his now-famous LORD OF THE RINGS speech.
“[It] was just changing every 10 minutes,” the actor said of the monologue while appearing on the HAPPY SAD CONFUSED podcast.
The speech sees Bean’s character, Boromir, saying the fan-favorite line, “One does not simply walk into Mordor,” and, according to the actor, was all on a “cheat sheet.”
“I just had a bit of card. That’s why I kept looking down,” Bean revealed, joking, “And it gave me gravitas.”
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Bean also shared that he “didn’t realize how big” LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING would become because production was so “secretive.”
Warning — spoilers ahead! In THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, Bean’s character dies which, as many online have pointed out, is common for his characters.
“I don’t know, they just kill me off,” Bean told MovieWeb. “But I guess I’ve played quite a lot of villains. Of course, you know, they always have to die, don’t they, unless you’re Dracula.”
He joked, “I’ve got no problem with it, really. Sometimes I’ve suggested to them, ‘Look, I’m available for a few weeks, [but then] I’m doing something else. So can you kill me off?’”
Bean is currently promoting one of his latest projects, MGM+’s ROBIN HOOD series. The actor plays the Sheriff of Nottingham, with Jack Patten playing the titular hero.
“It’s kind of the story that you grow up with, and there’s been so many versions over the years, and I’ve enjoyed them all,” Bean told Nerd Reactor of the show. “But with this one, I just wanted to take what I had in front of me, and there’s some wonderful material, great writing, and then we had 10 hours in order to be able to flesh our characters out and bring in the complexities and the psychological aspect of why they behaved as they did, why the sheriff has to go to extreme measures in order to keep the peace.”
The actor said he didn’t view his character as “automatically villainous or cruel or wicked,” but rather someone “reacting to the rebellion that was facing him, and he had to take pretty strong measures.”
“I see him as a man of vulnerabilities and frailties, and he’s not perfect, and he has his weaknesses, and that was threaded into the story, which I think balanced him out as a real, you know, a real human being,” Bean finished.
The LORD OF THE RINGS franchise was nominated for multiple Movieguide® Awards.
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