Game of Thrones fans will never forget the tragedy of King Tommen Baratheon. After learning that his mother, Cersei, had blown the Great Sept of Baelor to kingdom come, Tommen took his own life by throwing himself out the window.
Dean-Charles Chapman was the young actor who brought Tommen to life…and then to death. Recently, Chapman spoke to Variety about the final season of Game of Thrones. Apparently, he didn’t actually watch it. Since his character was killed off, he wasn’t too interested in keeping up.
I mean, do we blame him? Since his days on Thrones, Chapman has been extremely busy. Soon enough, we’ll see him in the cinematic marvel 1917, a war movie filmed to give the appearance of one continuous shot.
In an interview with Metro, Chapman talked about working on 1917, which also happens to costar another Game of Thrones veteran, Richard Madden (Robb Stark)! It’s the Stark/Baratheon team-up we never knew we needed.
So how does working on 1917 compare to working on Game of Thrones?
"With Game of Thrones, I had the privilege to come back every season and play the same character and get to know them more. Whereas with this, it’s a film so you only get one time to play the character and it’s got to be right and that’s it. […] But that’s so completely different projects. Game Of Thrones is medieval with dragons flying everywhere, whereas this is the first world war, a very real human story that actually happened."
Chapman plays Blake, a soldier responsible for delivering a message to 1,600 British soldiers during World War I. Blake and George McKay’s character, Schofield, basically headline the movie, so it’s a big deal for him.
Anyway, filming the movie was a grueling, enlightening experience, and should make for good watching. “It was tough,” Chapman remembered. “But it’s how it would have been and it was very realistic. I never really felt like we were making a movie, it was like we were actually in that time period living as those characters and trying to survive, I’ve never had an experience like it. The hardest thing was probably the condition we were in, the mud in No Man’s Land, the trenches it’s very much like ice, it’s so slippy. You have to focus on how to walk let alone act, but that’s what the men had to put up with and that’s what we were doing.”
Our boy Dean-Charles Chapman has come a long way since his days as Tommen Baratheon. It’s no wonder he hasn’t looked back since then.
1917 is released in theaters on December 25, Christmas Day!
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