Video: Nearly a dozen cast members tease Game of Thrones season 7

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The Game of Thrones cast members continue to get the word out about season 7, not that it needs the help. HBO Brasil posted a bunch of new videos featuring the likes of Sophie Turner, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Aidan Gillen, Rory McCann, Liam Cunningham, and others teasing their hearts out. Have at it:

“The different stands are starting to enmesh,” says Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger), echoing a theme we’ve heard a lot during the lead-up to this season. “Some characters that we’ve been waiting to meet each other I think will meet each other.”

Gillen didn’t give any specific hints about Littlefinger’s role in season 7, but Sophie Turner (Sansa) picked up the slack. “There’s always something brewing with Littlefinger,” she says. “The dynamics of that relationship are definitely played out a lot this season. On the one hand, he’s so knowledgeable and gives her so much advice. There’s a lot of her struggling with whether she trusts him or not this year.”

"This season is kind of about her finally having that influence over the people of Winterfell and having that power, and kind of semi-ruling alongside Jon."

As Turner has hinted before, there may be a bit of “sibling rivalry” between Sansa and Jon this year, something that’s magnified both by their respective positions and simply because “there’s a lot more at risk this year.”

Next, Isaac Hempstead Wright talks about what we can expect from Bran.

“At the start of season 7, Bran has got a lot to think about,” Wright says. That’s a bit of an understatement. He’s got a lot of valuable intel, including the identity of Jon Snow’s parents, how the White Walkers were made, and “perhaps how to defeat them.”

"So Bran needs to really kind of get it together and focus and just accept that he’s kind of a new person. He’s the Three-Eyed Raven."

Gillen, for his part, gave his thoughts on how season 7 differs from past years. “I think people got so much last year that you can’t just pull back from there,” he says. “That’s one of the reasons it’s only seven episodes, actually, because to deliver spectacle in that scale in the amount of time you have to shoot, it’s really difficult.”

As you can see above, Rory McCann (the Hound) agrees, if non-specific. “It’s gonna be bigger,” he says. “We know it’s gonna be bigger. It’s gonna be colder.”

"Sandor’s still a grumpy bastard, but he might do some good at the end. You never know."

In fact, pretty much everyone is touting the expanse of the new season. Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) calls season 7 “more cinematic” while John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) notes that “[e]very other day something massive was going down. And you just think, ‘Well, this feels like it’s all coming to a head now.'”

Cunningham laid out how the contraction of storylines is giving the show a new energy:

"There’s a lot of difference this time because we’ve been following stories going to this part and down to Daenerys and over to Cersei and back up to…so, what’s happening now with this threat from the North is that there’s no one army that’s going to be able to take care of this."

Of course, everybody stopped short of actually giving away explicit spoilers. “How far any of us making into [season] 7 remains to be seen,” says Cunningham. Soon enough.

Next: Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) shoots down the idea that Daenerys could become a villain

Meanwhile, Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm) outlined his pipe dream for the show. “I just want Missandei and Grey Worm to be happy, and just be, like, on the ocean on their own. But that’s not gonna happen, is it?” Probably not. And Pilou Asbæk (Euron Greyjoy) gave us a tease about where his character’s head is at. “I’m not gonna lie — I wanna be the king.”