10 Actors Who Asked For Their TV & Movie Characters To Be Killed Off
1. Milo Ventimiglia - Gilmore Girls
Milo Ventimiglia has had iconic roles on Gilmore Girls, Heroes, and This Is Us. His first major break came when he played the troublemaker Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls. He showed up in season two as a love interest for the main character, Rory Gilmore, and quickly became a fan favorite.
Ventimiglia left Gilmore Girls at the end of season three. He wanted a grisly end for his character: being hit by a bus or stabbed in the neck. The writers didn't go for it, however. Instead, they sent Jess Mariano on a cross-country trip so he could reunite with his father. They wanted to keep him alive for a possible spinoff.
While the spinoff never happened, Ventimiglia made sporadic appearances in one-off Gilmore Girls scenes in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons. He also appeared in the 2016 miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.