They were going to be six very eventful, monumental episodes. That’s when we really started trusting they could do this in six episodes.

The season was going to gain and gain momentum. The episodes were slightly longer than the average episode, and they contained so many pivotal events and so much information. Then we got the scripts, and we started reading them back in October 2017, and we saw what a rich season it was going to be. It might lead you to think six episodes is not quite enough. We thought it was brave, trying to wrap it up in six, knowing how many stories there were to tie up and how many major resolutions they needed to land. Where do you even begin with what you can speak about freely?Īs soon as we found out the last season would only be six episodes, we thought David and Dan were very bold. It’s a packed final season and a packed series finale. Now it’s just a narrative, start to finish. We were so busy looking over our shoulders for spoilers, dodging awkward questions all the time. We can breathe easy and we can look back now that we have some distance. There’s a real sense of satisfaction amongst the cast that we finished this story and given a resolution to the questions people were asking for a while. Having answers to some of those questions out there is such a liberating experience.

( Laughs.) It’s so weird to know you can be completely candid about everything without risking the wrath of anybody. Ahead, Bradley delivers one final goodbye to Game of Thrones - though as he highlights, it’s not really a goodbye at all, is it?Īh, it’s such a weird feeling. The actor, who first learned the ending during a script read in October 2017, can now discuss the way in which Game of Thrones ends without consequence, now that the whole world knows the fate of Westeros, and the identities of the Small Council leading the way: King Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright), supported by Tyrion as Hand of the King Bronn (Jerome Flynn) as Master of Coin Davos (Liam Cunningham) as Master of Ships Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and Sam as the brains of the operation. For Bradley, however, there’s another sensation entirely: relief. It’s one of the many heartwarming ways in which Game of Thrones concludes, even as there’s much to feel bitter about - Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) losing her life at the hands of Jon Snow (Kit Harington), for one thing. Alas, Tyrion does not appear within the text, despite being Martin’s favorite character.

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