Recently, we wrote about actors who begged to be killed off their film collection and TV exhibits, and now we’re again for extra! Here are 19 extra stars who needed/need OUT.
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Christian Serratos requested for her character Rosita to be killed within the collection finale of The Walking Dead as a result of she felt it “made sense for Rosita” and gave her (Serratos) closure. She additionally mentioned, “I just really wanted people to have that emotional experience in our finale, especially. I think a show that was about possibly losing your loved ones, you want to lose somebody at the end. I know it sounds so dark, but I feel like the show, we owed it to the fans to break their hearts one last time, if that makes sense.”
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According to John Wick producer Basil Iwanyk, Keanu Reeves begged to be definitively killed off on the finish of John Wick: Chapter 4 .“After the second, third, and fourth movie, making these films is so exhausting and it destroys Keanu, physically and emotionally,” Iwanyk mentioned. “By the end, he’s always like, ‘I can’t do this again,’ and we agree with him. The guy is just a shell of himself because he just goes off and goes for it. He was like, ‘I wanna be definitively killed at the end of this movie.’” Producers disagreed and left the ending barely ambiguous, with Iwanyk saying. “We have been like, ‘You know, we’ll depart a ten% little opening.”
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In one instance the place the actor’s request was not obliged, Alan Ruck requested that his character Connor Roy be killed off Succession after feeling like he wasn’t doing a lot. “In the first seasons I had a few things to do, and then in the second season I had some inane Connor-isms, some interjections, but I didn’t actually have a one-on-one scene with anybody. Everyone was like, ‘This is the best show on TV,’ and people didn’t even know I was on it. So I asked to be killed off, and they said, ‘No, no, no, we need you.’ Mark Mylod [an executive producer and director] wrote something funny about how Jeremy Piven’s character on Entourage was not supposed to be much at all and then it grew over time. And Connor did grow over time; it just kind of took until the end of the third season.”
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While we do not have affirmation from Joe Manganiello himself, an insider informed Hollywood Life that he needed his character Alcide to be killed off True Blood. “Joe brought up to the producers that he wanted to be killed off because he wants more out of his career then just being known as being the guy on True Blood. The producers gave him his wish because when he brought it up, it was before the final season was announced.”
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While Kate Mara did not essentially ask to be killed off House of Cards, she clearly needed her character Zoe to die — her character’s loss of life was one of many fundamental causes she took the position. “I knew from the moment I accepted the role that I was only contracted for 14 episodes and would have a grisly death at the start of the second season. I probably wouldn’t have signed on otherwise. … I was ready to go and liked that I got such a definitive ending.”
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Samuel L Jackson’s character was at all times meant to die in Deep Blue Sea, however he died sooner than deliberate at Jackson’s personal request. His character’s monologue was initially “seven pages of the worst dialogue you’ve ever heard in your life.” based on visible results supervisor Jeff Okun, who, with Jackson, got here up with the concept of getting his speech lower off by Jackson’s character’s loss of life so he would not must say the traces. Jackson even informed Okun, “Just kill me. The sooner you kill me, the happier I’ll be.” He ended up butting heads with director Renny Harlin, however ultimately bought his means when the film was recut to be extra of a comedy.
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Raymond Cruz revealed in an interview with AMC that he requested the Breaking Bad writers to kill his character Tuco after first showing ultimately of Season 1 of the present. “Honestly, I wasn’t looking forward to coming back and doing the part. It’s really difficult to pull off,” Cruz revealed. “They have been like, ‘We want you to come back and do eight more episodes.’ And I mentioned, ‘No. I’ll do another, and that’s it. You guys must kill me.’ They’re like, ‘We never heard of an actor that wanted to die.’ And I’m like, ‘You don’t perceive. This half’s actually arduous.’”
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Liev Schreiber requested Kevin Williamson (who wrote the unique Scream) to be killed off the Scream franchise after showing briefly within the first movie and in a bigger position within the second movie — and later regretted it. “All I remember was thinking, ‘You know, this guy’s kind of a ham,'” Schreiber revealed. “At that point in my career, I didn’t really fully understand the value of being in a franchise. To be frank, I was like, ‘Let me get out of this while I can. Get out while things are going well.’ And I just thought it would be fun to be one of the iconic kills from the top. I was working and doing a lot of stuff, a lot of other stuff in New York, and theater, and I was like, ‘How many times can I play this character?’ And now, I realize, that you can play that character as many times as they want you to.”
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Charlton Heston was not eager on the concept of a sequel to Planet of the Apes, and solely agreed to seem in Beneath the Planet of the Apes if his character was killed off within the first scene. He was later satisfied to easily disappear within the first scene, and die on the finish of the movie. It was even Heston’s concept that Taylor ought to activate a doomsday bomb, dying together with the remainder of Earth, in order that the collection could not proceed. Of course, it did, and Heston later mentioned, “I thought I’d been very clever, but of course, they were cleverer than I was, because they managed to keep going on anyway.”
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Duane Jones advocated for his character to die on the finish of Night of the Living Dead when producers began contemplating a happier ending. “I convinced George that the Black community would rather see me dead than saved, after all that had gone on, in a corny and symbolically confusing way.” He continued, “The heroes never die in American movies. The jolt of that and the double jolt of the hero figure being Black seemed like a double-barreled whammy.”
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Director J.C. Chandor revealed that Ben Affleck requested to be killed in the course of Triple Frontier. The loss of life was initially meant to go to a secondary character, however Affleck thought he might get the studio to agree to alter it to him. Chandor was on board: “I spotted it was so neat that as an alternative of it being the man that ought to have died, it was the man that shouldn’t have, in a means. Even although he’s the chief, and he ought to have identified higher.” Affleck added, “I thought that would be interesting and I wanted to see somebody actually pay a price for what happened. I always liked To Live and Die in L.A., how Bill Peterson’s character died. It kind of takes you off guard. I wanted to do the same thing. … It highlights the risk to people’s lives. It focuses on the mortality question and theme, which I think is really interesting.”
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Bruce Lee additionally reportedly advocated for his character to die on the finish of Fist of Fury, which was not the unique ending. Lee felt that his character Chen ought to die to be able to present justice was not one-sided (contemplating Chen’s murders within the movie), however needed him to die with honor.
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It’s unclear if John Diehl requested to be killed off Miami Vice, however he did ask to go away the present after feeling he “didn’t have much to do,” and referred to as his character Larry Zito dying “the right way to get me out of it.” He continued, (*19*)
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We’ll have to attend and see if this request is honored, however apparently, Michael Douglas needs Hank Pym to die if there is a fourth Ant-Man movie. In truth, he told The Hollywood Reporter he’d solely come again to the franchise “as long as I could die.”
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And Maya Hawke needs Robin to die in Stranger Things Season 5. “It’s the last season, so people are probably going to die. I would love to die and get my hero’s moment,” she informed Rolling Stone. “I’d love to die with honor, as any actor would.” However, she also said she appreciates the way the Duffer brothers “love their actors” and “don’t want to kill them. I think that’s a beautiful quality that they have, and I wouldn’t wish it away.”
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Gareth Thomas reportedly “insisted” his character Blake die on Season 2 of Blake’s 7. He did find yourself returning for the finale, throughout which he once more died, nevertheless it’s rumored he added additional blood packs beneath his costume to make his loss of life extra definitive so he would not be requested to return if the collection continued in any means.
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Ben Miller requested to be killed off the British-French collection Death in Paradise, his costar Ralf Little revealed on Twitter, saying his loss of life was “at Ben’s request I believe. The legend goes he wanted to make sure he couldn’t come back.” Miller had beforehand claimed he left attributable to eager to spend extra time along with his younger youngsters, saying “My personal circumstances just made it too complicated.”
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Nicola Duffet revealed she ran to the script editor’s workplace and “begged” to be killed off Eastenders. “I ran in crying, ‘Kill me NOW! I can’t stand it.’ Because the part was so boring. I played this simpering wimp, Debbie. All I did was walk into the Vic and say, ‘Where’s Nigel?'” she bought her want, and her character was killed offscreen in a highway accident.
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In the British collection, Waking the Dead, Claire Goose requested for her character Mel Silver to be killed off in Season 4. “I did ask that. They [the producers] were like ‘Really, do we have to kill you off?’ and I was like ‘Yeah, go on, just do it’.” She additionally revealed her character was initially purported to be killed within the pilot so her character’s life had truly been prolonged fairly a bit.
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