Actor Sean Bean admits he’s feeling a bit jealous that the production on season two of Game of Thrones is beginning without him.
“They’re about to start up again [and] the saga gets to go on without me,” he said. “I’m doing something else now, but sometimes I go, ‘Aw, s**t, bring me back’.”
Bean also suggested that Ned’s death will allow other characters, such as Robb Stark (Richard Madden), to take on a larger role.
“Someone else is going to have to take his place,” he said. “Once he’s imprisoned, for instance, his son Robb has to take control. [But] Ned was very much needed, and he’s the last person you want to see disappear.”
Bean says he’d be open to returning as Ned Stark, adding that anything could happen to bring his character back.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I see prequel in the future….
David, it’s taking GRRM long enough to finish the main series… please don’t give him any ideas of other stories to work on to distract him! 🙂
Don’t panic, the writers aren’t going to go off-book now that they KNOW sticking to the books is the key to success. I don’t see a resurrection, or a prequel (too time-consuming), though maybe a flashback or two if it jives with things from the books.
And he’s right about Ned: his imprisonment/death was a catalyst for so many other characters to step up to the plate. The whole season had a theme of the older generation getting shuffled off so that the younger characters could take a bigger place in the story (Robb, Jon, Joffrey, Daenerys, etc), and at the same time inhereting the consequences of the older generation’s mistakes.