10 Actors Who Hated Their Own Movie Death Scenes

Classic 1996 action flick Executive Decision features one of the most shocking deaths in movie history, when Steven Seagal's Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis, widely expected to be a major character in the film, is killed while trying to board the hijacked flight in the first act.

Seagal, a major action star at the time, was presented more as a co-lead alongside Kurt Russell's Dr. David Grant, and his demise proved all the more unexpected as it was his first significant death in a film.

According to Seagal's co-star John Leguizamo, Seagal was a disruptive presence on the movie's set, attempting to install himself as the shoot's "alpha male," and refusing to come out of his trailer because he had some misgivings about his death scene.

Originally, Travis was supposed to die when explosive decompression caused his head to explode, but Seagal allegedly held up the production for days by arguing with director Stuart Baird that it wasn't "realistic."

A new, more "grounded" death scene was then hastily scripted in order to get the shoot back on track and Seagal got back to work.