If you’re a fan of English actor Sean Bean, you’ve probably seen him die horribly on screen multiple times. He now wishes to change his fate.

In an interview with The Sun on Thursday, the British actor, 60, said that after almost two dozen of his characters perished over the course of his 35-year career, he’s become much more picky when it comes to accepting roles.

Sean Bean | CREDIT: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES

Sean, 60, said: “I’ve turned down stuff. I’ve said, ‘They know my character’s going to die because I’m in it!’

“I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable.

“I did do one job and they said, ‘We’re going to kill you’, and I was like, ‘Oh no!’ and then they said, ‘Well, can we injure you badly?’ and I was like, ‘OK, so long as I stay alive this time’.

“I’ve played a lot of baddies, they were great but they weren’t very fulfilling — and I always died.”

Sean Bean is most known for playing Eddard “Ned” Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones’ first season. Sean Bean was killed off at the conclusion of the ninth episode after King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) ordered his beheading.

Bean claims he was satisfied with his Game of Thrones death since he wasn’t interested in being on a long-running series at the time. Although, in light of the show’s popularity, he now admits that he wishes he could have stayed longer.

Sean said: “I’d read the Game Of Thrones books and they said to me, ‘You do die in this, but it’s near the end of the series’. And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, fair enough’.

“So they made it very clear at the time I was going to die, and I thought, ‘I don’t want to get stuck in one of these series that lasts seven years’.

But, considering the show’s global success, Bean said, “But I wish I’d have got stuck now. But it was very clear what [Game of Thrones author] George R.R. Martin wanted to happen to Ned — and it did.”

The 60-year-old actor’s many deaths are well-known on the internet. A 2011 YouTube video titled “Sean Bean Death Reel” has over 2,600,000 views. A 2014 online movement dubbed #DontKillSeanBean was established in response.

Bean played Ned Stark on GOT, Alec Trevelyan in Golden Eye, and Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, all of whom died through decapitation, jumping out of a plane, and being shot with arrows, respectively.

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Sean Bean seemed to have survived in 1995 when he played the villain in the James Bond film Goldeneye. Bean’s character appears to die early in the film, only to be discovered to be alive and well later on, and to be the mastermind. Of course, he ends up dead by the end regardless.

Luckily for Sean Bean, his role in the upcoming BBC1 war drama World On Fire survives:

“I survive in World On Fire, I’m at home in Manchester and I’m safe.”

Helen Hunt, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison, and Yrsa Daley-Ward join Bean in the seven-part military drama. Bennett, a bus driver, finds himself in a love triangle and still coping with shell shock from World War I when the war against the Nazis gets underway in 1939.