Liam Cunningham (Davos) on the “low-lifers” who intentionally spoil Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones’ Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) recently spoke about his career to John Kelly from Ireland’s Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE). In the process, he made his feelings about people who intentionally spoil the show pretty clear:
"They’re low-lifers. In Spain, we were being live streamed while we were filming, from drones. Everything we’ve done has been infiltrated, which is terrible."
Cunningham is a big believer in keeping the show’s secrets. Kelly starts the spoiler conversation by bringing up the death of Jon Snow at the end of season 5 — Cunningham knew what came next but kept his mouth shut. “I keep quiet because it’s the best thing for the show.” He says that although it can seem like the cast and crew are “precious” about spoilers, it’s all in the service of preserving the show’s “bizarre surprises.” “I’ve seen these cynical critics go ‘Oh my God did you see that last week?’ and suddenly the inner child comes out in them because they’ve been outwitted, and they love it!”
"It’s what we pay for. I like it as well, when I am reading the scripts I go ‘oh you’ve gotta be, you’re sh****ng me’ and I love that."
Game of Thrones fans come down on one of two sides: Those who accept spoilers and those who don’t. We’re certainly not above posting them, although we’ll warn you first.
You can watch the entire interview here — it’s 26 minutes long and covers the full span of Cunningham’s lengthy career. The Game of Thrones conversation starts around 17:15.
Other notable bits:
- Author Clive James on Game of Thrones: “The Wire was about society. Game of Thrones is about civilization itself.” Now that’s a tagline.
- When talking about his career in general, Cunningham says he’s always been attracted to “decent” characters. That certainly describes Davos.
- He says that Game of Thrones is basically “a really, really high-class soap.” That’s not a criticism.
- On Davos’ role: “My part has expanded significantly as it’s gone on…There’s so many morally ambivalent characters and morally grey areas about this, you need a couple of characters on the show to kind of go, ‘What the f**k are we doing here? This is completely wrong.’ They need to speak up for the audience.”
- Cunningham discusses his work with World Vision Ireland and the refugees from Syria.
I highly suggest watching the whole thing.
h/t Irish Mirror