![]() ![]() Every time I got in the water, I had to hold my breath. You can’t react or do anything because you’re meant to be dead, but you’ve got these fucking stinking dead animals drifting by right under your nose. They’d keep putting fresh ones in but there’d still be sheep floating past that had been dead for weeks. ![]() They were real sheep and some of them had been dead for two weeks. “We shot in it winter on the west coast of Ireland and we had to reshoot it quite a few times. And then I’m dead in the water floating along with these dead sheep. It’s real cattle coming at me and it was quite nerve-wracking in that respect. I remember running away from all these cattle and getting closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. It’s almost the way you expect him to go because he’s such a passive individual he’s been dominated by his father since he was young and can’t really think for himself. It’s such a sad scene, but also quite pathetic because he just can’t get away. It’s done in a very clever way where the camera cuts to me at the moment of impact and I react as if I’ve been hit. If you look at that scene, there’s never a point where you see an arrow being fired directly into me. I had this harness on with these arrows fixed into it which was quite heavy, but that was the only way to make it look as if these arrows are really stuck in you. That moment when I’m down on my knees and I’m looking up at Lurtz is incredibly powerful. “There’s a big fight which wears Boromir down and, little by little, these ugly beasts get the better of him. Peter spent quite a bit of time on that particular death, choreographing every detail and planning how he was going to film parts of it in slow motion and what music he was going to use. It happens at the end of the film, so they wanted to make a big splash – whoever was going to die was going to do so in spectacular fashion. “This one took quite a while, but it was a big production so we had a lot of time to get it right. ![]() The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Actor Sean Bean has been dying over and over again for 20 years. They were very safety-conscious, of course, but I just didn’t like the idea of being tied to two of the bloody things because there’s a chance it could actually happen!” It was difficult because you’re working with animals and, from the crew’s point of view, filming somebody getting split down the middle, or quartered as it were, is very difficult. We had all these ideas about using horses and ropes, but it’s not till you actually get on set that you think, ‘Okay, how am I going to die?’ They wanted to tie me to these two horses, but I would only let them tie me to one. “I don’t think anyone was quite sure how we were going to do it up until the day. (Warning: here be spoilers! Obviously.) Black Death (2010) But what’s the secret to delivering a convincing death scene? We sat the mild-mannered Yorkshireman down and asked him to run through his five favourite on-screen deaths. Suffice to say, Bean knows a thing or two about copping it for the camera. He’s been shot, skewered, flogged and hanged no less than 25 times. Sean Bean has had more run-ins with the Grim Reaper than you’ve had hot dinners. ![]()
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