Sigourney Weaver had one for Aliens 3 because the studio was discussing Alien vs Predator and she wanted no chance of getting involved in it. Then AvP took another decade to get moving and Ms. Ripley got better in her own way.
The various Jewish actors playing Germans in Hogan’s Heroes, particularly Werner Kemplerer demanded as a condition of taking the roles that their characters would always fail.
I heard Jim Brown once in an interview claim that it was a condition for his movie roles. He was to be the good guy, he wins, he lives, and he gets the girl.
Must have been once he became a bigger star, because he didn’t make it through The Dirty Dozen.
I’m now thinking the quote might be from Fred Williamson. I’m looking to see if I can find the clip on Youtube
No he didn’t. It was offered to him because people thought he wanted out. It’s in his autobiography I am Spock. The contract thing, as usual, was just a rumor.
You want proof? He improvised that “Remember” scene with McCoy for the sequel. Why would someone who wanted out via death do that?
Didn’t Heather Mills get offered a place in Celebrity Apprentice and demand a guarantee she’d make it to the final round? Got a pretty resounding ‘No,’ but she tried.
Really..
http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue16/features/the_many_deaths_of_sean_bean_1.htm
“One Sean Bean dies every 1.4 years”
Not exactly. He walks into the situation intending to die, and purposely gets in between the two combatants. I wouldn’t call it what you called it.
He allowed it, but the intent of the antagonist is the defining aspect of the act, I think.