Game of Thrones is over, but with the final season finally coming out on home video, we’re seeing a bunch of interviews from earlier in the year, in the think of the season 8 madness.
One such suite of interviews comes from the ever-reliable Ozzy Man, who not only gets the cast to open up about what they appreciated about being on the show, but also blows the lid off a scandal a decade in the making!
Okay, not really, but I do want to know which actor demanded that HBO switch caterers. Watch below!
“Catering the first couple of seasons was not great,” said Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) after Ozzy Man asked him about his worst experience on Game of Thrones — way to switch it up with the questions. After she was done laughing, Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) agreed. “There was a course correction in the food.”
Joe Dempsie (Gendry) gave the juiciest hint about what I’m just going to go ahead and call Food-Gate. “Yeah, the first few years the catering was terrible, until an actor who shall remain nameless booted his lunch off the side of the hill and insisted that they change the caterers.”
Oh my god, who was it? Did Kit Harington throw away his sandwich in disgust? Did David Bradley refuse to touch his filet of fish? Did Lena Headey rage against her pitiful fruit cup?
Wait, was this the real reason Ed Skrein didn’t return to play Daario Naharis after season 3? I think we’ve cracked it.
Anyway, aside from that hilarity, the cast offered some more traditional sound bites:
- Joe Dempsie loved the opportunity to meet the players on Manchester United F.C. He’s not a short man, but I love how tiny he and John Bradley (Sam Tarly) look next to the players in that picture!
- Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane): reiterated that the Tormund-Brienne romance grew organically. “Nobody saw that coming! It just happened…When something appears, you can play around with it.”
- What did Christie like most about working on Game of Thrones? “The combination of the depth of the character and the enduring nature of the job.”
- Before getting hired to play Bronn, Jerome Flynn was considering leaving acting altogether. Clearly, things went another away, and he loved playing Bronn. “There’s something in a sense, very freeing about him, and uncomplicated. And within that, he’s got this wonderful sense of dry, sardonic Northern humor, which the boys really captured.”
Finally, watch these folks try and puzzle their way through Australian slang!
Cheers all around, to the actors and to Ozzy Man.
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