Game of Thronesis full of warriors and rulers and schemers and seducers, but then there is Samwell Tarley.
Like it just now hit me.JOHN BRADLEY:I think that’s how everybody feels.
When I got to the end of his story, I got the sense I was abandoning Sam.
Marc Hom for EW
Because every year, you grow with your character.
I wish I could stay with him a bit longer.
Because the last couple of books are coming out, we will get more of these characters.
They will exist in another form in a few more years.
And for book fans especially, that first book came out in 1996.
At some point the characters are not going to be in their lives anymore.
If everybody could handle it as well as Jon, it wouldn’t matter.
You need a Sam in there as an example of what Jon is fighting to protect.
What was your reaction to the scripts for season 8?It was the start of the goodbye process.
So when fans ask, “What’s going to happen?”
we can say, “We don’t know, we haven’t read it.”
It’s literally a weight that you get paranoid about.Completely.
You guard it with your life.
We feel a responsibly to keep all those secrets.
But I think the audience is going to be delighted.
It’s never been a show that gives people exactly what they think they want.
They’d say, “No!
We don’t want that, we’re behind them, we want them to succeed.”
Then it happens and we feel all those emotions and they realized that’s what we needed.
And now if you ask, “Do you wish The Red Wedding never happened?”
fans would answer, “No!“Exactly!
Not just the chips and chocolate.
We challenge them and hurt them too.
But like when people ask us for spoilers, they don’t really want to hear the spoiler.
They would rather see it.
He couldn’t talk that White Walker around with logic.
He’s discovered when violence is the only answer, it is an answer.
What was shootingthe big battlelike?
It’s so inspiring.
He will rein you in at times.
When doing these huge fight sequences, you get carried away sometimes.
You want to make yourself look as good as possible.
Miguel said to me, “I know that you want to show you’re quite good at this.
But remember your character.
Sam’snotthat good at this.
You have to play him because that’s what’s going to be truthful.
So stop being so good!”
