Thank god Jesse Armstrong refused to kill Connor offSuccession.
Here are 19 more stars who wanted/want OUT.
By the end, hes always like, I cant do this again, and we agree with him.
The guy is just a shell of himself because he just goes off and goes for it.
He was like, I wanna be definitively killed at the end of this movie.'
Producers disagreed and left the ending slightly ambiguous, with Iwanyk saying.
We were like, You know, well leave a 10% little opening."
I probably wouldn’t have signed on otherwise.
I was ready to go and liked that I got such a definitive ending."
Jackson even told Okun, “Just kill me.
The sooner you kill me, the happier Ill be.”
“Honestly, I wasnt looking forward to coming back and doing the part.
Its really difficult to pull off,” Cruz revealed.
“They were like, We want you to come back and do eight more episodes.
And I said, No.
Ill do one more, and thats it.
You guys have to kill me.
Theyre like, We never heard of an actor that wanted to die.
And Im like, You dont understand.
This parts really hard.
To be frank, I was like, ‘Let me get out of this while I can.
Get out while things are going well.’
And I just thought it would be fun to be one of the iconic kills from the top.
He continued, The heroes never die in American movies.
The jolt of that and the double jolt of the hero figure being Black seemed like a double-barreled whammy.
11.Director J.C. Chandorrevealedthat Ben Affleck asked to be killed in the middle ofTriple Frontier.
Even though hes the leader, and he should have known better.
I always likedTo Live and Die in L.A., how Bill Petersons character died.
It kind of takes you off guard.
I wanted to do the same thing.
It highlights the risk to peoples lives.
It focuses on the mortality question and theme, which I think is really interesting.
Itll also attract attention; they can promote it.
But I had to get killed to get out of my own show!
15.And Maya Hawke wants Robin to die inStranger ThingsSeason 5.
Its the last season, so people are probably going to die.
I would love to die and get my heros moment, shetoldRolling Stone.
Id love to die with honor, as any actor would.”
I think thats a beautiful quality that they have, and I wouldnt wish it away.
16.Gareth Thomasreportedly"insisted" his character Blake die on Season 2 ofBlake’s 7.
The legend goes he wanted to verify he couldnt come back."
18.Nicola Duffetrevealed she ranto the script editor’s office and “begged” to be killed offEastenders.
“I ran in crying, ‘Kill me NOW!
I can’t stand it.’
Because the part was so boring.
I played this simpering wimp, Debbie.
All I did was walk into the Vic and say, ‘Where’s Nigel?'”
she got her wish, and her character was killed offscreen in a road accident.
“I did ask that.
They [the producers] were like ‘Really, do we have to kill you off?’
and I was like ‘Yeah, go on, just do it’.”
