- "It's a great honour, I suppose, to be asked to play a Bond villain. To be 007's friend, and we part our ways and become enemies. It was very interesting, and great to be involved in."
- ― Sean Bean
Shaun Mark Bean (1959 - ), known professionally as Sean Bean is an English stage and screen actor who portrayed rogue MI6 00 Agent Alec Trevelyan (006), the Bond Villain of the 1995 film GoldenEye.
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- Sean had actually previously auditioned for the role of James Bond himself in 1994, but it went to Pierce Brosnan, who had been the ideal choice for quite sometime. However, impressed by his acting skills, the directors cast him as a villain who was Bond's former friend, fellow agent, and substantially a dark equal.
- Both Bean and Daniel Craig appeared in Sharpe. Bean played the titular protagonist in all the films, whilst Craig played an antagonist, Lieutenant John Berry, in the second film, Sharpe's Eagle, ironically in reverse roles compared to GoldenEye, as Daniel Craig is a James Bond actor.
- Because Sean mainly played antagonists in most of his films who each died in gruesome ways, with Alec Trevelyan being one of them, fans organised a campaign and made a website called Don't Kill Sean Bean.com with the description: "Sean Bean dies in everything, which is a shame because he is awesome. This blog is dedicated to ending the untimely deaths of Sean's characters in television and film. Help us save Sean Bean!" During an interview with talk show host Larry King, Sean himself laughed at the website description and was pleased that he had so many fans.