23 Actors Who Played Characters So Well, The Writers Decided Not To Kill Them Off
When Vince Gilligan pitched killing Walt Jr. off Breaking Bad, he said, "All my writers looked at me like I had completely lost my mind and was the most horrible person to ever live.”
1.After filming Season 3 of Succession, Brian Cox, who played Roy family patriarch Logan, revealed Logan was originally meant to die at the end of Season 1. "But I think they realized that Logan is the centrifugal force of the piece," Cox said. "Everything has to spin off him, and the kids’ vices are all about their father, and relating to their father. Do they love their father, and if so, how do they show that love?”
2.Steve Harrington (played by Joe Keery) became a major fan favorite of Stranger Things — but originally, he would have died in Season 1. According to Ross Duffer, series co-creator,"We fell in love with [Keery] during the making of season one, which is why we ended up writing that arc for him where he’s helping to save the day. ... Steve was supposed to be this jocky douche bag, and Joe was so much more than that."
3.Eleven was also supposed to die back in Season 1 of Stranger Things. At the time, the show was only meant to have one season, so El's sacrifice at the end of Season 1 would've been less open-ended. "It was like, Eleven was gonna sacrifice herself and save the world and then that was gonna be it," co-creator Ross Duffer revealed. However, upon pitching it, studios and streamers were less interested in limited series because they didn't make much money. “I remember when we went into Netflix and we pitched this, they were like, ‘Well, we like this but how could it keep going?’ And you’re just sort of riffing in the moment and we were like, ‘Well, Will’s back from this other dimension and he’s not doing very well.’ And [Netflix] was like, ‘Great!'”
