Sean Bean seems OK about role as a flashback in 'Missing' (PHILLY.COM)

March 15, 2012|BY ELLEN GRAY, Daily News Television Critic


SEAN BEAN isn't the absent character referred to in the title of ABC's "Missing." But he's not exactly there, either. As the show opens tonight, Bean's character, CIA agent Paul Winstone, has been gone 10 years, visible only in a flashback that includes the car bombing that left his agent wife, Becca (Ashley Judd), a widow and their son Michael (Nick Eversman) fatherless.

That puts the "Lord of the Rings" in company with two other ABC players this season: "Revenge's" James Tupper and "The River's" Bruce Greenwood, both of whom play characters we've mostly seen only in flashbacks or video clips.

And if you think there just might be something more to the casting of a prominent character actor in a role like this in a show that's ostensibly about the widow's search for their now-missing son?

All Bean's going to do is chuckle.

But then he's still amused by the reaction of some fans of HBO's "Game of Thrones" to the plot twist that left Bean's lead character, Ned Stark, without a head last season. "I think it's quite funny," Bean, who retains a strong Yorkshire accent you won't be hearing on "Missing," said in a recent phone interview.


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