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By MIKE LARKIN
PUBLISHED: 03:25 GMT, 7 August 2014 | UPDATED: 07:38 GMT, 8 August 2014
It is one of the most memorable screen deaths of recent times.
And Sean Bean has revealed he got over his character Ned Stark being decapitated on Game Of Thrones by playing football with his replica head.
The 55-year-old said he indulged in an impromptu game of soccer with the prop after filming was completed on his public execution in Malta.
After explaining during a Reddit chat that seeing his own head 'was a bit strange, yeah, a bit creepy, ' he explained he went on to have some fun with it as, 'we just kicked it around like a football!'
The Yorkshireman also gave an in depth explanation about how challenging it was to film death itself.
He said: 'The scene was shot in Malta, in this big square in Malta, I think they built it, like a big public square, and it was good.
'It was weird, you know? Because they made a cast of my head with hair on it, I've got some pictures of me holding my head.
'And it was fun. I don't know, you kind of just have to imagine what it's like to have your head chopped off, Ann Boleyn and how she must have felt. But it was the manner in which it was done, it was all the more tragic for that.'
The actor, who read through the books himself before shooting the hit HBO programme, admitted he was as horrified as fans when he discovered his characters fate.
He said: 'I mean, I knew it was coming, you know? But when I read it, you know, it just comes out of the blue and was a nasty shock.
'Especially after Ned Stark thought he'd got some agreement between Joffrey and the various factions, and for them to renege on that deal was pretty shocking.'
The star also gave said he does not believe his character is really the father of show hero Jon Snow, the bastard son he raised in Winterfell.
When someone asked him about it directly, he said: 'I mean, how am I supposed to know? Does anybody know? I don't think he's mine.'
And when someone asked him why he had never taught Jon Snow anything he added: 'Because he's not mine!'
As a final insult to the character, who is played by Kit Harington, when someone asked if he would like to have 'that conversation' with him, he said: 'f*** Jon Snow!'
The Lord Of The Rings star shared plenty of other juicy stories during the hilarious chat.
Perhaps the most memorable off-screen encounter he had with a fellow actor was during a friendly spot of billiards with his National Treasure co-star Nicolas Cage, which ended with the latter burying his treasured prehistoric bear skull after accidentally breaking it..
The hunky Yorkshire pudding said: 'There was one where I went back to Nic Cage’s house, and we’d had a few drinks.
'We were playing pool and he accidentally knocked over his prehistoric cave bear skull and smashed it. And he was really upset about it, and the next day went and buried it in a field.'
Even more amusingly, he said there was a time when he kept receviing letters addressed to a certain other Mr Bean.
'I used to get his fan mail, actually! I think they had the wrong address. I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson.
'These letters would say things like "You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face" and I would say "you can't mean me!"
'Whenever I call people up and they say 'who's calling' and I say Mr. Bean and you can hear people giggling on the other end of the phone.
'He's got a lot to answer for, that Rowan Atkinson.'
The Sheffield United supporting star, who said he wants Nigel Clough to sit on the Iron Throne, also spoke about how he was injured by a hook wielding Harrison Ford while filming Patriot Games.
He said: 'It was an accident! And we were just slipping around on this boat, it was in Los Angeles in a studio on a boat on rockers, hydraulics, there were wind and rain machines,
'It was very slippery and chaotic conditions, and it was just an accident, he just slipped and whacked me in the eye and I had about 35 stitches inside and out. Just out here, and in here.
'So the next day we carried on filming and they shot me from the other side in profile to finish the scene. They gave me a suit at the end. I suppose that's compensation. '
Sean also shared a host of other tidbits, such as his love of baked beans, the fact he has a collection of swords and how he is a massive fan of gardening.
And while he is famed for his numerous on-screen deaths, he admitted he almost came close to dying for real during his time as Napoleonic soldier Richard Sharpe.
He said: 'I suppose the closest I came is a horse's hoof landed on my head. And it did actually!
'When I was filming Sharpe. And I injured my neck, and I was pretty close, yeah. You can see it on film.'
The canny old pro also begged his supporters to tune in to his new show Legends, in which he plays an FBI Deep Cover Operations agent who transforms himself into a different identity for each case, and which starts on TNT on August 13.
When asked how long the show will last, he said: 'I don't know, ongoing hopefully! You should tune, all of you!'
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