“Hey, they were in Game of Thrones”—Where else have you seen these 55 GoT cast members? (Part 2)

43) DANIEL PORTMAN

Actor Daniel Portman is the son of Thrones favorite Ron Donachie (Ser Rodrik Cassel), so the young Scotsman may have had an inside track on the part of squire Podrick Payne. That said, Portman has made the role his own, showing great charisma and empathy in a violent world where both qualities are sorely lacking.

Portman talked about his father/son dynamic in an interview with Nerd Bastards:

"It’s a lovely coincidence, that both me and my dad ended up on the show. He was on it from the very beginning and the pilot and everything and then just as he was leaving, I was just coming into it. It was almost like a passing of the torch, changing of the guard kind of thing."

Portman has a small but growing list of credits, appearing in  movies like Outcast (2010), The Angels’ Share (2012), Wasteland 26: Six Tales of Generation Y (2015) and The Journey (2016). He’s also been treading the stage boards in the play The Collector (above).

In an interview with InVerse, Portman talked about getting to play in a variety of environments on Thrones:

"When I was working with Peter [Dinklage] and Jerome [Flynn], we were mostly inside and it was mostly scenes that were a little more wordy; talking politics. With Brienne, it’s more action-packed. We’re always out and about on our horses and fighting, so I’ve really had the best of both worlds. I’ve been on just about every filming location at some point, and I have had a chance to do all the inside talky stuff and the outside sword-fight stuff."

InVerse also asks Portman the burning question: just what exactly did the virginal, innocent-looking Podrick do in that brothel in season 3 that was amazing enough to make the grateful prostitutes return his money?

"A magician never reveals his secrets. I quite like it like that — it means I can tell people exactly what I want to about it, which is fun. I’ve thought of some weird and wild explanations in my time. There’s been one that he actually has two sets of genitalia and that he can operate them both independently or simultaneously. Somebody believed me when I told them that. That’s the one I usually try and get away with."

Portman also tells The Daily Telegraph his unique theory about how Game of Thrones will end …:”I don’t think there is going to be Iron Throne; I think something is going to happen. The focus has been on the throne for the whole thing, and I think it’s going to end up like a democracy rather than a monarchy.”

So there you have it. Portman is both LARPing in a film about Robert the Bruce (above) and appearing in the movie In the Cloud  in 2018.