In Which I Really Really Love Sean Bean

My love for you knows no bounds, so I pre-wrote this because I'm going to be incapable of thought later.

I decided to call this blog Sean Bean's Wet Dream as Sean Bean's Steamy Creamy Wet Dream Supreme was a bit too much of a mouthful... oo-er! Anyway, it's about time I gave him a mention. So. Sean Bean. It doesn't matter if he's in a film where he's being shot dead by arrows or drowned or blown up or shot dead with bullets or freezing to death or having his throat cut or having a Soviet signalling dish fall on him, it doesn't matter what he's doing, he's always bloody brilliant.

Here, in fact, is a video of him dying a lot. Don't watch if you don't want to feel sad or aren't good with gore.

Due to being some sort of cretin, I have only just got round to watching Sean Bean in the first episode of Jimmy McGovern's drama Accused (but you can forget the other two episodes as they've no bearing on this one, and as such don't have Sean Bean in). Dying is one of the many things he has down to a fine art, so it's a surprise to see him survive in such a gritty setting- you get the feeling that if he was in an episode of Rainbow, he'd get disembowelled at the least.  Saying he doesn't die isn't a spoiler by the way- the episode is told as a series of flashbacks when Sean Bean is in the dock testifying, so if you can't work out from that that he survives you've forgotten how to think. Another one of the surprising things about this particular drama is that Sean Bean plays a shy English teacher who finds identity and excitement as his transvestite alter ego Tracy. Then he meets a curious married man played by Stephen Graham and it's on and shit goes down, etcetera. It's pleasant to know that Sean has more in his acting range that he can surprise me with. One day he might even perfect the English accent... Accused was as bloody brilliant as S.B is, and an honourable mention goes to Stephen Graham because he was every bit as good as Sean was, but that'll probably be forgotten as he wasn't dressed as a woman. In conclusion, bloody brilliant but bloody bleak. It's like watching "It's a Wonderful Life" only you leave before Clarence turns up- a feel bad feature.

Here's a video I just found of Sean Bean's reaction to hearing that there's a popular video of a montage of his screen deaths.

I bloody LOVE Sean Bean.

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