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Game Of Thrones star genuinely thought finale script was a joke at first

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Updated 14:08 6 Oct 2022 GMT+1Published 10:28 6 Oct 2022 GMT+1

Game Of Thrones star genuinely thought finale script was a joke at first

It's been three years and it's still too soon.

Imogen Donovan

Imogen Donovan

Remember the ending of Game of Thrones? Poor you. Even if you liked the way that things played out for (almost) all of those beloved characters, the admission that the showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss "didn't know what [they] were doing" and saw the adaptation as an "expensive film school" is gutting.

Imagine being one of the long-standing cast members, too, when you turned the final page of the script that decided the best person to sit on the Iron Throne would be... Bran Stark. The actor, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, said in an interview in 2019 that he thought the writers were pulling his leg.

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“When I got to the [Dragonpit scene] in the last episode and they’re like, ‘What about Bran?’ I had to get up and pace around the room,” revealed Hempstead-Wright to Entertainment Weekly. “I genuinely thought it was a joke script and that [showrunners Benioff and Weiss] sent to everyone a script with their own character ends up on the Iron Throne. ‘Yeah, good one guys. Oh sh*t, it’s actually real?’”

These comments are now doing the rounds once again thanks to the stratospheric success of House Of The Dragon. Truly, the needling political scheming, the literal blood being spilled between the Greens and the Blacks, and the pertinent prophecy inscribed on the dagger... it is a bit pointless when Bran's on the throne.

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Additionally, let's get into why Bran is actually one of the worst candidates for the Six Kingdoms. He's able to see into the future and into the past with the Greensight and with these abilities, can change what happened there. Look, I won't claim to be an expert on magic, but a guy who can literally rewrite history just by closing his eyes, quashing potential rebellions or any threat to his House before they even consider the idea, sounds very not good.

Featured Image Credit: HBO

Topics: Game Of Thrones, House of the Dragon, TV And Film

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