Sean Bean

Pierce Brosnan, yeah.

Um, there's the other one that was on with, uh, Sean Bean on BBC, The City Is Ours.

Ours.Sean Bean.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

Yeah.

it's still like really cool so yeah that's me talking about troy i don't really know what else to to say um besides having a stacked cast um oh sean bean actually is pretty fun as odysseus even though he's in it for barely any time and he lives He lives.

Sean Bean, Sean Bond, who knows? This is a

notable movie where Sean Bean lives.

I'd love for him to do a movie where Sean Bean almost dies all the time.

Or like, you make it like, do the whole cliche thing of like, oh, this character's totally going to die.

And then, just as you're about to think he's going to die at the end, it just doesn't happen.

It's... and he lives like final put Sean Bean in like a

Who's my, one of my favorite characters in cinema.

Uh, Michael Bean is, Oh wait, Sean Bean, Sean Bean.

Wait, no, wait, Michael Bean.

Yeah.

And it's that advancement of battlefield command.

And I've watched historical dramas like going back to the Sharp series in the 90s, which is a brilliant series, and where Sean Bean's character, Richard Sharp, is constantly tracing that promotion.

And

he does that quite often through battlefield command because he knows that the lieutenant or the officer in front of him is essentially some English fop who's purchased in over him.

Sean Austin is Sam.

Sean Bean is Boromir.

I think he does a fantastic job.

He has to be a person that you understand why he has the internal conflict that he has.

But when he's outside the ring's influence, he breaks down because he's like, Ah, crap, it happened!

Yes.

And I think that the way that Sean Bean portrays Boromir is great.

He's not a villain.

Uh, they had, and some say still have, a stranglehold on education in Ireland and didn't want to give that up to the technical colleges and the likes.

Also, better education leads children to question more of what they're taught, and the Church didn't want that." And, uh, as another famous connection, of course, Steve points out Donough's son, Daragh, uh, became a well-known stage and TV actor, more known for playing Patrick Harper in the Sharp TV series with Sean Bean.

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