Leaving Game of Thrones was “the hardest thing” for Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage is currently making the rounds promoting his new movie Cyrano, where he stars as the iconic character Cyrano de Bergerac, a romantic too self-conscious to approach the woman of his dreams, so he woos her through another.

But of course, when a Game of Thrones cast members appears on a talk show naturally they’re going to chat about HBO’s mega-hit. So it is with Dinklage’s appearance on the New Year’s Eve episode of The Graham Norton Show, according to Metro.

Dinklage remembered how hard it was to leave Game of Thrones after he and the rest of the cast and crew had formed “a family” during the decade they’d worked together. “I lived in Ireland, so for me it wasn’t just the show, it was a life, which was the hardest thing to walk away from.” At the same time, by the end Dinklage thought “it was time to move on.”

Peter Dinklage jokes about Ed Sheeran’s Game of Thrones cameo

Also on the chat show is comedian Joe Lycet, who took issue with Ed Sheeran’s appearance as a Lannister soldier in season 7. Dinklage joked that Ed’s cameo was “‘probably done at the pub, and then when they actually turned up it was like ‘Oh no, now we have to write a scene for them!'”

Lycet suggests that he’d rather have seen Sheeran’s character fight and die in a battle than sing a song. Although that technically may have happened: Arya runs into Sheeran’s character not long before Daenerys decimates the Lannister army in the Loot Train attack. So his body may be char-broiled by now.

Cyrano is out in theaters tomorrow.

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