His family never moved out of the two-bedroom former council house where he grew up.īean, who praised Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 after the Labour leader was first elected, appears frustrated today. He was brought up in Sixties Sheffield by his father, who owned a welding business, and his mother, who worked as its secretary. Bean has previously condemned Margaret Thatcher for destroying the north’s industries.
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One very different role clearly fills Bean with pride: the quietly haunted Father Michael Kerrigan in Broken, last year’s BBC series about a parish priest in a deprived north-west suburb. “If I feel as though I’m repeating myself, that’s just not very good,” he says. Photo: Massimo TestiniĬontrary to his reputation in pop culture, Bean tries to choose roles or projects he hasn’t done before. “If you’re playing one-dimensional characters, which you usually are in the big blockbuster things, that’s fine, that’s fair enough, but you can’t sustain yourself on that… you’ve got to go back, do something that is actually quite dense… these big films, the characters aren’t quite as defined or as thought-out or realistic, but that’s probably the intent.” He’s happy to laugh at his career, playing himself as a “spirit guide” cross between Boromir and Stark in Channel 4 stoner comedy Wasted, but says he prefers “personal, smaller dramas”. “But I have been surviving quite a bit recently – well, up to about last year!” “I’m not complaining, I don’t mind about that, I’ve been some wonderful characters,” he smiles. There’s even a “death reel” on YouTube, compiling his colourful demises. His tally of 25 deaths is so varied – showered with arrows, torn apart by horses, buried alive, decapitated, toppled off a cliff by cows and many more – that he’s become an internet meme with the #DontKillSeanBean hashtag. Yet Bean jokes about flicking to the back of scripts when he receives them, so often has he come to an untimely end on screen (the real-life Jacopo was eventually hanged). Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday.
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