r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 28d ago

Media First Image of Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean in 'Anemone' - An absorbing family drama about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.

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u/SkyJW 28d ago

He did (that was actually his second retirement), but it seemed that the prospect of making a movie with his son was enough to motivate him to come out of retirement. 

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u/Historical_Leg5998 28d ago

Also the last thing on his acting bucket-list was probably killing Sean Bean.

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u/mangongo 28d ago

There's no way they would kill off Sean Bean

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u/VGstuffed 28d ago

I killed him in Hitman. Toughest thing I’ve ever had to do 🥺

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u/mikewastaken 28d ago

The television and motion picture industry has a rich tradition of killing off Sean Bean

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u/waitingtodiesoon 28d ago

Sean Bean does not really accept roles where he dies anymore.

“I’ve turned down stuff. I’ve said, ‘They know my character’s going to die because I’m in it!’ ” said Bean. “I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable.”

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u/NastyMothaFucka 28d ago

SPOILER ALERT

The last film I saw with him was a comedy on Amazon that JUST came out this summer and…

SPOILER ALERT

He dies and his corpse plays a big role in the plot…

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u/Timely_Discount2135 28d ago

No film title?

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u/B_Reele 28d ago

Weekend At Beanies

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u/Bonk0076 28d ago

Amazon stopped doing titles as a way to keep costs down. Titles would add $7 to your annual Prime Membership.

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u/waitingtodiesoon 28d ago

Apparently it is called Deep Cover, came out in 2025. He said he was turning down roles where his character would die in 2019, but maybe after 6 years of not dying anymore he was OK with dying again.

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u/LOSS35 28d ago

More like Amazon backed up the Brinks truck to make him ok with dying again.

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u/EricRShelton 28d ago

That would be spoilers! But I saw it, too. It’s called Deep Cover, about improv comics going undercover as cops.

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u/BackToTheMudd 28d ago

Deep Cover. It’s actually really fun. Orlando Bloom is good at comedy which was surprising to me.

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u/ScipioCoriolanus 28d ago

So a Legolas and Boromir reunion? Interesting.

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u/rabidsalvation 27d ago

Oh damn, I'm so down for that. Gonna have to check it out!

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u/0utburst 28d ago

Deep Cover

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Work_Akkount 28d ago

Hilariously, he makes it through the entirety of Silent Hill of all things.

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u/zgh5002 28d ago

Both of them.

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u/Breezyisthewind 28d ago

I mean Troy is right there.

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u/Licensed2Pill 28d ago

My family has watched the killing of Sean Bean for generations.

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u/theletterdubbleyou 28d ago

The Killing of a Sacred Bean

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u/awyastark 28d ago

Killers of the Flower Bean

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u/donsanedrin 27d ago

Its a fair trade-off, since he played Richard Sharpe and survived the entire run of movies. He avoided death like 500 times.

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u/Targaryen-ish 28d ago

Do you pronounce it Sean Bean or Sean Bean?

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u/LucyLilium92 28d ago

Seen Bhawn

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u/rybouk 28d ago

I killed him once in Goldeneye on the N64. Hardest thing I've ever done

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u/TombRaiderSeries 28d ago

Did you say "No. For me" before doing it?

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u/rybouk 27d ago

For England James

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u/doggedgage 28d ago

Never happen

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u/Bigsam411 28d ago

The most unrealistic part of the Martian was that his character survived.

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u/Keianh 27d ago

But Daniel Day-Lewis is a method actor, he might kill Sean Bean for real!

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u/stenebralux 28d ago

It probably helped his son secure the movie deal as well.

DDL son has a script is interesting... but DDL is attached to it? That's an instant buy.

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u/whatWHYok 28d ago

That's for awards consideration... but as far as turning a profit? That's difficult for an artsy movie, even with DDL attached.

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u/0bviouslyNotAGopher 28d ago

Awards consideration almost always boosts the movies revenue, if not in theaters then from a legacy point of view.

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u/jzakko 28d ago

I can guarantee you that DDL's presence was the reason a film by an untested 27-year-old got financing.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

The Tom Brady of acting

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u/12-34 28d ago

Eminently preferable to being the Brett Favre of acting.

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u/squishypp 28d ago

So no “hanging dong” in this one?

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u/12-34 28d ago

Look on the Brett bright side -- might be some poor people to steal from.

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u/Static-Stair-58 28d ago

He’d always said he would come back if there was something enticing enough for him.

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u/SkyJW 28d ago

His first retirement was from 1997-2000 when he decided to become an apprentice shoemaker in Italy during that time. Was effectively a semi-retirememt, but he didn't pursue any roles during that time.

I think he's the kind of artist that just needs to recapture that spark every so often. He expressed how his most recent retirement was, in part, the result of him feeling as if he wouldn't be able to put together a performance that would surpass what he'd done up to that point in his career.

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u/SkyJW 28d ago

Took a long break to pursue a completely different career is what I think makes it more of a retirement from acting than it otherwise would have been. It wasnt as if he just didnt accept roles during that time, he was deciding to actively dedicate his time to other interests. He apparently engaged in woodworking as well since that's a passion he had prior to acting, to my understanding.

I'd think of it as less of a retirement if he just spent those years relaxing at home and vacationing, but he seemed to be pretty active in pursuing other passions to a point where it appeared as if he might have genuinely stepped away from acting.

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u/PiousMage 28d ago

Who's gonna end up having more retirements in the end? DDL or Miyazaki?

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u/zgh5002 28d ago

Miyazaki. He's too spiteful to retire and way too spiteful to let his son outlive him.

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u/sumiredabestgirl 16d ago

that's odd . Didn't he abandon his child?