The End of Jon & Sam, Bran’s Sight in Season 6, and Julian Glover on playing Pycelle

With only 18 days until the premiere of Game of Thrones season 6, members of the cast simply can’t resist dishing on their characters’ evolution.

John Bradley (Samwell) reflects on losing Jon Snow with The Telegraph, Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran) teases his Sight and magic at Yahoo!, and with Vulture, and Julian Glover reviews playing Pycelle.

John Bradley shares his friendship with Kit Harington is as thick as their character’s which only made saying goodbye all the more difficult.

It’s hard to let your appreciation of the show take precedence – you just have to accept the fact that the actor’s not going to be there anymore. We love the show and everybody loves Jon Snow. But we’ve always felt a more concentrated form of grief because we’re not just saying goodbye to a character we love watching, we’re saying goodbye to an actor that we’ve worked very closely with –we know them and like having them around. So we are literally saying goodbye to professional relationships.

He goes on to reminisce their Game of Thrones experience together:

Especially the professional relationship between Kit and I because this is the first thing we did. Kit had done some high profile plays and I’d been to drama school but for both of us this was our break. The friends that you make when you’re at your most nervous and uncertain and scared tend to be the friends that you keep. Because everything is heightened and you cling to them as a rock to support yourself. So, we’ve developed together. We’ve always been good friends, right from the first day we met and we’re still going to be friends and talk all the time. But a chapter of our lives and relationship is closing. In terms of our professional relationship, which we both got so much pleasure from.

And concludes with Jon and Sam’s history of goodbye:

If you look back over the series, Jon and Sam have actually said goodbye loads of times. They said goodbye when he went off with Coryn Halfhand, they said goodbye when he went off to sort out the mutiny at Craster’s Keep – he may not have come back from those. He may have died. But they always managed to meet up and there’s a lot of hugging. There tends to be a lot of Castle Black courtyard hugging. But this time felt final, it felt like even if you don’t know what’s going to happen, you felt like this is the end for them. And then the death later on removed any glimmer of hope at all. It’s hard to close that chapter but I knew it was going to be great telly!

For more, including John’s favorite moment from Season 5, head on over to The Telegraph!

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Up in The Real North, Isaac Hempstead-Wright teases a big year for Bran’s Sight and “lots of magic.”

Particularly this season, he’s almost read the script.
He knows what’s going on all around the world.
So this year, I kind of approached it as if Bran had just watched the show the whole time. When we meet Bran in season 6, he’s still got a lot of learning to do, but expect lots of magic.

He also cast a vote for his TV sister Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) as the Queen of Westeros and rightful sitter of the Iron Throne:

She’s had to learn the way of the diplomat, she’s been exposed to the politics of Westeros in a way that other characters have not. I reckon she could be particularly cunning. She’d make a good queen, nicer than Cersei.

Isaac discusses set hijinks, future roles, his year off from Thrones, and more over at Yahoo!

Julian Glover’s impressive résumé (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Troy, to name a few) leaves him more than an accomplished actor but a brilliant mind as well. With such talents he adds depth and dimension to the nefarious Grand Maester Pycelle. He reflects on expanding his role from the books to Game of Thrones with Vulture:

I’d done about three weeks on it, and I was really getting bored sitting at that table with people talking all around me, and the remarks were sometimes pretty stupid. I’m just sitting there being an old fart. I hadn’t got it together why he’d survived to such a long age, except maybe he’s someone people couldn’t be bothered to get rid of, you know? That’s part of it, of course. So I went to the writers, and I said, “I’m sorry. This sounds very arrogant, but I’m a better actor than this. You must give me something else. I know in the books he’s not very substantial, but if he’s there, and if I’m going to play him, I’m going to play something.” And they went away for a week. And then I had a dream that Pycelle was actually two people. He was someone who was pretending to be a doddering old man, but actually, he was a very active man. And the day after I had the dream, and I promise you this is true, they came to me and said, “We’ve got this idea, and we got it from when after you do a take. The minute they say cut, you stand up to your full height, and you start talking to your friends. So we’ve got this idea that, in fact, you’re hiding somebody under there.” I said, “This is fantastic!”

We changed the moment when Tyrion came in [in Season 2]. It was going to be, Pycelle is cringeing in the corner and he wets himself. Very funny, but I said, “I don’t want that for Pycelle.” Because how does Pycelle survive in court if he’s going to be so rattled that he pisses himself in the corner? No, no, no. Don’t do that. It’s undignified enough as is. But it goes to the point, Pycelle was playing two lives. He was actually a very bright fellow, playing politics, but he’s got it pretty bloody awful now, and people insulting him quite a lot, as you’ll see in season six. There’s some good stuff coming.

Glover further examines Pycelle’s placement in Westeros and conspiracy theories, his past roles, and much more with Vulture.

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