Game of Thrones actors tease the endgame, facing down Cersei Lannister
By Corey Smith
The Avengers aren’t the only ones in the end game now, as Game of Thrones has but three episodes left to bring the saga of the Seven Kingdoms to a close. With the Night King out of the picture, the focus now shifts down to King’s Landing, where Cersei holds power. Two members of the team looking to unseat her, Joe Dempsie (Gendry) and Conleth Hill (Varys), teased what’s to come in the show’s final three episodes.
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First, Dempsie revealed to Digital Spy that he’s glad he’s not in charge of closing the show out.
"It’s so hard to end anything – to bring anything to a conclusion that you feel is broadly satisfying, and without compromising, and being surprising as well. I’ve been talking about that a lot with Game of Thrones. I don’t envy David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss, showrunners] with the task of bringing this thing to an end. There’s millions of people waiting with bated breath, and they’ve all got their own idea about how to do it. You can’t possibly please everyone."
They gave us Ghost back, what more do you people want?
Anyway, this seems to be a common refrain among the actors: that the show’s ending won’t please everyone. That should hardly be surprising for a show that killed its main character in the first season. If the writers had worried about pleasing us then, Ned would have survived, and just think of all we’d have missed?
Dempsie also touched on the importance of keeping the ending a secret. “I’ve not told anyone [how it ends], because I genuinely don’t want to spoil it,” he said. “And with these spoilers, it’s not just telling a mate a secret. These things will grow exponentially. It only takes them telling two more mates the next day down the pub, and the secret’s out.” That’s a wise man right there.
And speaking of wise men, Conleth Hill (Varys) got more specific (although not spoilery) about the final three episodes when speaking to TV Line. With the Night King dead, Team Dany’s next target is Cersei Lannister. “There’s no talking to her… she’s the biggest threat to stability. Even at the end of [Season] 7, there seems to be a coming together of everyone but her. Hill added that Varys is “frightened of her, he’s aware of how dangerous she is, and how bad she is.”
So could we see Varys somehow aid Daenerys and her allies using his former spy network in King’s Landing, perhaps the same ones now working for Qyburn? Hill was coy. “For a while, [Varys] was in Meereen, [so] it wasn’t as strong a connection, but supposedly, he still did [have them], yeah.”
Maybe the little birds would turn on Qyburn? We’re not really fans of forcing children to commit murder, but they’ve done it before.
Three episodes to go, people!
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