10 Actors Who Asked For Their TV & Movie Characters To Be Killed Off
3. Megan Boone - The Blacklist
Megan Boone played Elizabeth Keen, an FBI profiler who gets tangled up with criminal mastermind and the FBI's most wanted man, Raymond Reddington. While the question as to whether or not Reddington was her father was resolved in the fourth season, the parent-child relationship between Keen and Reddington persisted.
Keen was the main character of The Blacklist alongside Reddington. The show's plot was driven by the tension between Reddington and Keen. Her death in the season eight finale came as a shock to many fans. After all, Reddington was terminally ill and had spent most of the season grooming Keen to take over his vast criminal empire.
It turned out that Megan Boone had wanted to leave the Blacklist for a while. After eight years playing Liz Keen, she wanted to work on other projects. The writers knew this and created a satisfying exit arc for her. This did little to lessen the blow for fans.