![]() Sipping his coffee and lighting a cigarette, he admits to being a little interviewed-out at the moment. There's a polite, unaffected diffidence about him that makes it easy to forget that this is the man who kept women glued to television screens with Sharpe, Clarissa and Lady Chatterley's Lover, or who gave Pierce Brosnan's 007 a run for his money as the villainously urbane 006 in GoldenEye. Other than that, Hollywood - like everything else - doesn't appear to have put much of a dent in a persona perhaps best described as "Northern bloke".Īfter meeting outside the Post Office near his home in Hampstead (he can't think of anywhere else off-hand) we wander around in mutual indecision until a suitable cafe is settled on. Above his left eye is a scar from where Harrison Ford hit him with a boat hook during the filming of Patriot Games. well, someone you'd expect to see driving a 15-year-old Vauxhall. In his suede jacket, faded jeans and boots, it must be said that the 42 year -old Sheffielder looks less like an internationally successful actor than. If there's one thing you couldn't accuse Sean Bean being pretentious. "Have you seen my car?" he enquires, inordinately pleased with his new runabout. Which means for the past few weeks the star of the hugely popular Sharpe television series, who has worked alongside the likes of Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas, has basically been driving around London in a skip. Since his BMW was stolen a few months ago he has been driving a battered old H-reg Vauxhall Nova, bought for pounds 100 from friends who planned to cut off the roof and use it to transport garden rubbish. If it's true that the type of car you have reflects your personality, then Sean Bean's current choice of vehicle speaks volumes. Simon Beckett meets LOTR:FOTR star Sean Bean finds his claims to 'ordinariness', well, extraordinary.
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