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 once they thought of offing Melissa McBride’s character Carol, she knew she needed to say one thing. Melissa ended up pleading her case — and in the long run, her character was spared.

“There was that point the place they had been gonna kill her. I requested to talk to any person to inform them what I considered Carol, as a result of no one had requested me at that time. I am like, ‘Right here’s who she is to me, simply no less than let me let you know that a lot and when you nonetheless need to kill her, nice’ — however it was necessary 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 beloved 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 route, he says he tried to persuade Brief Rhes to let him keep on the present.

“That’s the one time I noticed my dying coming and was making an attempt all the pieces I may do to get out of that dying. That character Denny and that love story with Izzie form 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 in a while 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 need to depart 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 after we began filming — I didn’t need to die. I attempted to persuade the writers to maintain me on the present a bit longer. So that they thought of it, after which they known as me and had been like, ‘She’s received to go. We tried. We did our greatest,’” she advised The Hollywood Reporter.

Jeremy Renner was as soon as slated to take over Tom Cruise’s function within the Mission: Not possible franchise however ended up turning into too busy along with his function within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As an alternative, his function as IMF agent William Brandt was going to be killed off in Mission: Not possible – Fallout however Jeremy refused to let it occur.

“I had this entire concept that the film would begin with the dying of a crew member,” director Christopher McQuarrie advised Empire. “So I stated to Renner, ‘Hey pay attention, 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 dropping the plutonium, however includes the dying of a crew member.’ And Jeremy was like, ‘Thanks, however no thanks.’ …He was good 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 flicks. When it got here to his function as Douglas Bennett within the WWII drama World On HearthSean performed it secure and talked to creator Peter Bowker. Whereas discussing the function, Sean made certain 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 nice. You’re alright,’” Sean shared.

Throughout his run on Sport of ThronesIan McElhinney turned often called Ser Barristan Selmy, one in all 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 conserving 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 believed Barristan was form of necessary in Daenerys’ story, necessary sufficient that he ought to keep in Daenerys’ story, and he didn’t,” Ian advised The Huffington Put up. “It’s their name on the finish of the day, so that you form of have to simply accept regardless of the resolution is, however I did actually form of ask them additional about it.”

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

“You realize, what occurred originally 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 maintain dying in these films, I can’t do a sequel.’ Henceforth, we form 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 had been shocked — and the actor was too. Whereas his character arc had been increase over the course of the season, he was unexpectedly killed, together with a number of different characters. Wanting again, Matthew says he wished to remain longer and thought his character had extra to say.

“I believe each character that’s (eradicated) is all the time a missed alternative — you may all the time take them down completely different paths, so to talk. I believe Henry positively had plenty of story to inform, however folks must (move), and I believe Henry was a superb shock issue to plenty of followers. You realize, I believe Henry did have extra to present, however sadly he was (taken out),” he advised Metro.co.uk.

Dennis Haysbert portrayed President David Palmer on 24 till he was instantly 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 attainable.

“I simply refused to do it for a fantastic many months. Then they despatched one in all 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 advised Digital Spy in 2007.

Rita Simons starred as Roxy Mitchell on EastEnders for a decade however when writers wished to kill her character off, she refused. Wanting again, Rita says earlier than the scene was filmed the place Roxy and her sister had been purported to drown, an government advised 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 received 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, ‘If you need any probability at ever bringing Roxy again, it’s a must to refuse to die.’…Now could be 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 notice 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 advised The Solar.