Richard Madden “thankful” Robb Stark was killed off when he was

Richard Madden (Robb Stark) and Amy Adams (Sharp Objects) sat down for an “Actors on Actors” discussion hosted by Variety. They interview each other, and Madden drops an interesting tidbit about his exit from Game of Thrones.

Are you ready? He was “thankful” to go when he did, killed at the Red Wedding.

"It was such a hard thing to finish because from the first pilot to my death was five years. But five years was a great time to be on the show. It helped me so much with my career and experience. I learned a lot from shooting 30 hours of television. You really start to learn the trade doing that. And then I was thankful to leave it."

He went on to say that the actors that made it until the very end deserve medals, “because that is a marathon.” No kidding! I was exhausted just watching the two-hour documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, which chronicles the hard work of the crew members and the extras. It looks more like eight marathons strung together.

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And what would Madden like to do next? “I’d like to explore things that are a bit not Romeo,” he said. “I’ve spent 10 years playing different versions of Romeo, from Robb Stark to literally playing Romeo twice onstage, once when I was 21, once when I was 30.”

"I’ve played a lot of these good guys that bad things happen to, and Bodyguard was my first real experience of this moral space that isn’t so clean-cut as good guys and bad guys. I want to delve into that."

Sounds like someone is itching to be the next James Bond.

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