10 Actors Who Demanded To Be Killed Off Popular TV Shows
3. Julian Glover - Game Of Thrones
With the astronomical frequency of character deaths on Game of Thrones, you'd think that an actor wouldn't get the chance to actually ask to be killed off. However, that's the exactly the situation Grand Maester Pycelle found himself in on the HBO juggernaut.
Pycelle was one of the most powerful men in all of Westeros as a member of the small council and trusted adviser to several Kings. He, like most other powerful people in Thrones, meets a brutal end when he is repeatedly stabbed by his replacement Qyburn's "little birds".
Actor Julian Glover must have been oddly thrilled to read the page in the script when this happened, as he was not having a good time playing the corrupt old man.
He was unhappy that his part on the show had been severely reduced and that he was constantly belittled by Cersei.
In an interview, he remarked, "I went to them [the producers] and said, 'Look, I don't want to do this anymore, it's not interesting to go on doing this... and what's going to happen to him?'"
A pretty boss way to quit a show, all things said and done.