10 Actors Who Actually Didn’t Need Their Characters To Be Killed Off

Discover out what these stars needed to say about their roles…

The producers behind The Strolling Lifeless by no means hesitated to kill off fan-favorite characters and after they thought-about offing Melissa McBride’s character Carol, she knew she needed to say one thing. Melissa ended up pleading her case — and ultimately, her character was spared.

“There was that point the place they have been gonna kill her. I requested to talk to someone to inform them what I considered Carol, as a result of no person had requested me at that time. I am like, ‘Right here’s who she is to me, simply a minimum of let me inform you that a lot and in case you nonetheless wish to kill her, positive’ — however it was essential for me to talk for her,” Melissa shared at Comedian-Con.

She continued, “I nonetheless to this present day don’t know what saved her. I’ve heard completely different tales, however I don’t know — however I’m grateful, for no matter cause.”

Jeffrey Dean Morgan cherished his time on Gray’s Anatomy — a lot in order that he begged to not be killed off. When Jeffrey began to note that his character arc was headed in that course, he says he tried to persuade Quick Rhes to let him keep on the present.

“That’s the one time I noticed my demise coming and was making an attempt every part I might do to get out of that demise. That character Denny and that love story with Izzie sort of took the world by storm. I knew how f–king fortunate I used to be to be there, and I used to be like, ‘Please don’t kill me! I’ll do something!’…and I did, I did. I begged her,” he shared on an episode of Sizzling Ones.

Whereas Jeffrey was in the end killed off, he did make visitor appearances afterward in hallucinations and goals.

When Ella Purnell was solid on Yellowjacketsshe solely signed a one yr contract. Whereas she was at first excited in regards to the flexibility, she grew to like her character Jackie Taylor and didn’t wish to go away the present. Sadly, producers had plans to kill off Jackie and though Ella requested to remain, writers couldn’t make it occur.

“I used to be like, ‘It’s solely a one-year deal. I’m not locked right into a seven-year contract.’ So, on the time, that appeared actually interesting. After which once we began filming — I didn’t wish to die. I attempted to persuade the writers to maintain me on the present a bit longer. In order that they thought of it, after which they referred to as me and have been like, ‘She’s bought to go. We tried. We did our greatest,’” she informed The Hollywood Reporter.

Jeremy Renner was as soon as slated to take over Tom Cruise’s position within the Mission: Inconceivable franchise however ended up turning into too busy along with his position within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As an alternative, his position as IMF agent William Brandt was going to be killed off in Mission: Inconceivable – Fallout however Jeremy refused to let it occur.

“I had this complete concept that the film would begin with the demise of a crew member,” director Christopher McQuarrie informed Empire. “So I stated to Renner, ‘Hey hear, I’ve this concept for a gap sequence the place you sacrifice your self to save lots of the crew, and that the mission-gone-wrong not solely includes shedding the plutonium, however includes the demise of a crew member.’ And Jeremy was like, ‘Thanks, however no thanks.’ …He was sensible to not take the brief paycheck for 3 days of labor and getting blown up.”

Sean Bean has lengthy had dangerous luck along with his characters getting killed in reveals and films. When it got here to his position as Douglas Bennett within the WWII drama World On FireplaceSean performed it secure and talked to creator Peter Bowker. Whereas discussing the position, Sean made positive his character wouldn’t be killed.

“It was a phone dialog and I stated, ‘I don’t die on this one, do I,’ and he stated, ‘No, no you’ll be positive. You’re alright,’” Sean shared.

Throughout his run on Recreation of ThronesIan McElhinney grew to become often called Ser Barristan Selmy, considered one of Daenerys Targaryen’s most trusted advisors. However throughout season 5, Ian’s character was surprisingly killed off — completely different from what was depicted within the books. Ian says he spoke to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss about protecting his character round however they turned him down.

“I did discuss to them about it. I gave some arguments of my very own why I assumed Barristan was sort of essential in Daenerys’ story, essential sufficient that he ought to keep in Daenerys’ story, and he didn’t,” Ian informed The Huffington Publish. “It’s their name on the finish of the day, so that you sort of have to simply accept regardless of the resolution is, however I did actually kind of ask them additional about it.”

Early in her profession, Queen Latifah skilled numerous loss when it got here to her on display screen roles. After her characters have been killed off a number of occasions, she lastly added to her contracts that her characters couldn’t be killed on display screen.

“You recognize, what occurred firstly of my profession…My characters died within the films and apparently I died my ass off,” she stated on The Drew Barrymore Present. “I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute, if I hold dying in these films, I can’t do a sequel.’ Henceforth, we sort of threw (the clause) in there…I used to be like, ‘No extra dying. No extra getting shot up by 300 bullets on this automobile.’”

When Matthew Lintz’s character Henry was killed throughout season 9 of The Strolling Lifelessfollowers have been shocked — and the actor was too. Whereas his character arc had been build up over the course of the season, he was unexpectedly killed, together with a number of different characters. Wanting again, Matthew says he needed to remain longer and thought his character had extra to say.

“I believe each character that’s (eradicated) is at all times a missed alternative — you possibly can at all times take them down completely different paths, so to talk. I believe Henry positively had numerous story to inform, however folks need to (move), and I believe Henry was shock issue to numerous followers. You recognize, I believe Henry did have extra to present, however sadly he was (taken out),” he informed Metro.co.uk.

Dennis Haysbert portrayed President David Palmer on 24 till he was abruptly killed off early on in season 5. Dennis later defined that he actually didn’t need his character to die and held off on taking pictures the scene for so long as doable.

“I simply refused to do it for an excellent many months. Then they despatched considered one of my pals, who’s now the present’s runner, and he satisfied me to do it as a result of they wanted to launch the season. They stated they actually couldn’t do it with out me…If I needed to do it over once more, I wouldn’t do it,” he informed Digital Spy in 2007.

Rita Simons starred as Roxy Mitchell on EastEnders for a decade however when writers needed to kill her character off, she refused. Wanting again, Rita says earlier than the scene was filmed the place Roxy and her sister have been speculated to drown, an government informed her that many individuals didn’t need her character to die. He added that if she had any want to return to the present, she wanted to painting the scene as if she survived.

“I bought pulled apart a few days earlier than filming the ultimate scene by an exec…who stated to me, ‘There are lots of people upstairs who do not agree with this’…They stated, ‘In order for you any likelihood at ever bringing Roxy again, it’s important to refuse to die.’…Now’s the time to say I performed that scene as if I used to be holding my breath. Return and watch it on-line and you will note subsequent to nothing of me in any respect…I didn’t let anybody movie me leap within the pool, so nobody noticed me drown,” she informed The Solar.