Joe Dempsie (Gendry) on his current project (it’s not rowing a boat)

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from Dragonstone, aboard a tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin’ lad, a bastard brave and true, one passenger set sail that day, for a three season tour…a three season tour.

When Game of Thrones Season 6 premieres in 2016, it will have been three seasons since Joe Dempsie graced the small screen as a character on HBO’s flagship show. The last time we saw Gendry, he was rowing a boat out to sea, having been sprung from the clutches of the Red Priestess Melisandre by Davos Seaworth. This all happened in Season 3, and since then fans have been speculating what the hapless bastard of the late King Robert Baratheon has been up to.

Well, thanks to MTV, we know that Dempsie has been getting some work at least, with the spin-off of Shane Meadows’ Best British Film Award winning film, This is England ’90, a spinoff of the 2006 film This is England. Dempsie first joined the cast as Higgy in This is England ’86, back in 2010 before he ever stepped foot on the set of Game of Thrones, and is reprising that role for This is England ’90. As for reprising his role as Gendry, Dempsie thinks he is just out there somewhere, still rowing.

Speaking of former Game of Thrones actors moving on to do other things, Ian McElhinney—the late great Ser Barristan Selmy—has recently finished a film with his former co-star Conleth Hill (Varys) titled A Patch of Fog, which sounds like a sequel to one of George R.R. Martin’s books. Anyway, the film is considered a thriller, and centers around a television personality who gets caught shoplifting and then is stalked by the lonely security guard who caught him. This sounds about as far away from Game of Thrones as one can possibly get. A Patch of Fog was screened in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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