Love the piece of trivia that said Jeffrey Dean Morgan first turned down the role because of the death of his character a few pages into the script before his agent told him to read the whole thing and then decide.
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Top 10 Characters who die early in a movie (or TV?) (not necessarily unexpected)
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Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz), The Constant Gardener
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Love and highly suspicious nature of her death drove her husband Justin (Ralph Fiennes) deeper and deeper into a diplomatic and corporate conspiracy that could cost everything.
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Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), Twin Peaks
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The murder that brought Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Mclaughlin) to Twin Peaks to meet all of its assorted quiky characters.
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Chili Palmer's (John Travolta) boss, Get Shorty
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Chili Palmer was an entrenched enforcer in Florida before his boss's death sent him to Hollywood where he discovered he felt at home in the movie business whose tactics fit his mob experience.
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Dr Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), I Robot
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Skinny dipping swimmer (Denise Cheshire), Jaws
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Bruce the shark's first victim. So brutally killed, her remains were kept on a tray, setting off a series of events that set the template for future blockbusters
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Alex (Kevin Costner), The Big Chill
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Kevin Costner didn't even have to actually appear in the movie to help gather a bunch of top level actors together for a couple of hours of entertaining talk about their past and current lives.
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The King of Stormhold (Peter O'Toole), Stardust
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His death leads to a King Lear style ruthless battle for succession as well as immortality in the form of a living star (Claire Danes)
