Vikings season 6 spoilers follow
Alex Høgh Andersen has addressed his character's fate in Vikings.
Having played Ivar the Boneless for the last two seasons, it was only a matter of time before he was killed off, with Danish actor Andersen recently telling ET Online that it was an "unspoken thing" between him and show creator Michael Hirst.
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And even though some fans were underwhelmed by Ivar's death, Andersen explained that he was a big fan of the way his character went out.
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"I don't remember us talking about it, but we kind of knew," he revealed. "It was an unspoken thing, that we kind of both knew that he was going to die."
In his final scene, the ruthless warrior took his last breath on the Wessex battlefield in his brother's arms.
"This whole thing of him being afraid in the end, and him being stabbed by a young, random, innocent soldier, all those things I really loved," Andersen went on to say.
"And those were things that I came up with along with Michael, because we really wanted – especially me, I really wanted him to go out in a completely different way than everybody else."
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The actor further added: "Everyone on Vikings was getting this massive, heroic, almost religious death.
"I found it really interesting and very authentic and organic that the most religious guy of them all, the most extreme guy of them all, would go out in the most human and almost boring, in the most natural, just simple way.
"I liked that a lot."
The complete series of Vikings is now streaming via Amazon Prime Video.
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