Rating:
Sean Bean’s face is so lined, it looks like a child has drawn eyes on an inky thumbprint. He’s more wrinkly than a tramp’s boot that’s been left under a sunlamp, and twice as tough.
Compared with Sean, action hero Jack Reacher is as soft and snooty as Jacob Rees-Mogg. So it’s hard to understand why other inmates, in the prison drama Time (BBC1), take one look and decide he’s a pushover.
He’s Sharpe, he’s Boromir in Lord Of The Rings, he’s Ned Stark from Game Of Thrones for heaven’s sake. He doesn’t get these roles because he’s the diffident type.