Sean Bean
Headline:
'I felt like a has-Bean without Sharpe': Sean Bean returns to the TV colonel which made his name
Synopsis:
Nobody personifies the image of the macho actor, both on and off screen, better than Sean Bean. He plays the hard man, from the tough Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe to a Bond villain, as if to the manner born and his private life, what with three ex-wives and, reportedly, a turbulent relationship with the current Mrs Bean, is just as colourful.
But it was while making the latest Sharpe adventure that he demonstrated to me, albeit reluctantly, a surprisingly soft and sensitive side. We were in the arid, drought-plagued heart of India's Madhya Pradesh province where he was filming Sharpe's Peril, the latest instalment in ITV's enduring action drama, which begins on Sunday.
The afternoon sun was beating down mercilessly as I watched him in a scene with actor Luke Ward-Wilkinson, who was playing a young boy soldier. As the director called 'Cut!', Bean quickly walked away, furtively wiping his eyes. Everyone assumed it was sweat, but as he came near I could see the tears.
- Publish date:
- 31 October 2008
- Author:
- Wlliam Clayton
- Source:
- Daily Mail
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