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 Useless by no means hesitated to kill off fan-favorite characters and once they thought-about 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 have been gonna kill her. I requested to talk to any individual 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 a minimum of let me inform you that a lot and for those who nonetheless need to kill her, fantastic’ — but it surely was essential for me to talk for her,” Melissa shared at Comedian-Con.

She continued, “I nonetheless to at the present time 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 Shonda Rhimes to let him keep on the present.

“That’s the one time I noticed my dying coming and was attempting every part I might 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 Scorching 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 Yellowjackets, she 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 despite the fact that 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 need to die. I attempted to persuade the writers to maintain me on the present a bit longer. So that they considered it, after which they referred to as me and have been like, ‘She’s obtained to go. We tried. We did our greatest,’” she instructed 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 together 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 dying of a staff member,” director Christopher McQuarrie instructed Empire. “So I mentioned to Renner, ‘Hey hear, I’ve this concept for a gap sequence the place you sacrifice your self to avoid wasting the staff, and that the mission-gone-wrong not solely includes shedding the plutonium, however includes the dying of a staff 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 unhealthy luck together 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 Hearth, Sean 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 mentioned, ‘I don’t die on this one, do I,’ and he mentioned, ‘No, no you’ll be fantastic. You’re alright,’” Sean shared.

Throughout his run on Sport of Thrones, Ian McElhinney grew to become often known as Ser Barristan Selmy, one in every 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 maintaining 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 form of essential in Daenerys’ story, essential sufficient that he ought to keep in Daenerys’ story, and he didn’t,” Ian instructed The Huffington Submit. “It’s their name on the finish of the day, so that you form of have to just accept regardless of the determination is, however I did definitely kind of ask them additional about it.”

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

“, what occurred firstly of my profession…My characters died within the motion pictures and apparently I died my ass off,” she mentioned on The Drew Barrymore Present. “I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute, if I hold dying in these motion pictures, 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 automotive.’”

When Matthew Lintz’s character Henry was killed throughout season 9 of The Strolling Useless, followers have 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. Trying again, Matthew says he needed to remain longer and thought his character had extra to say.

“I believe each character that’s [eliminated] 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 lots of story to inform, however folks must [pass], and I believe Henry was a great shock issue to lots of followers. , I believe Henry did have extra to offer, however sadly he was [taken out],” he instructed Metro.co.uk.

Dennis Haysbert portrayed President David Palmer on 24 till he was out of the blue 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 a fantastic many months. Then they despatched one in every of my associates, 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 mentioned they actually couldn’t do it with out me…If I needed to do it over once more, I wouldn’t do it,” he instructed 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. Trying again, Rita says earlier than the scene was filmed the place Roxy and her sister have been purported to drown, an government instructed her that many individuals didn’t need her character to die. He added that if she had any need to return to the present, she wanted to painting the scene as if she survived.

“I obtained pulled apart a few days earlier than filming the ultimate scene by an exec…who mentioned to me, ‘There are lots of people upstairs who do not agree with this’…They mentioned, ‘In order for you any likelihood at ever bringing Roxy again, you must 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 instructed The Solar.