Quick hits: A couple of interviews

Here are a couple of interviews with Game of Thrones cast that have popped up over the last week or so.

First, Conan Stevens was interviewed over at The Tall Blog where he talks a lot about, as you might imagine, being tall. However he also has this to say about Thrones:

Working with HBO has been a good experience for me, mainly as I was working within the ‘Hollywood’ industry circles, rather than on the fringes. Pretty much everyone I was working with had a good track record and a ton of experience. For me to be chosen to work within these circles was a massive confirmation.

The other interview is with Aidan Gillen in the Irish Times. They talk mostly about his career and his role in the new Irish television drama Love/Hate, but touch briefly on Thrones:

He is distant. People know who he is, but he is hardly familiar. (“I’m Garbo-esque?” he smirks. But he doesn’t dispute that characterisation.) He has a dry sense of humour, compounded by a tendency to leer when it might be more profitable to smile. The facial hair he is sporting is for a role in the upcoming HBO series Game of Thrones (billed as “ The Sopranos in Middle Earth”), currently shooting in Belfast.

His character, Petyr Baelish, is a shadowy, mercurial figure. “So I based this look on Peter Mandelson circa 1984,” he says.

• Published on 10/04/2010 at 8:21 AM CDT
• Last updated on 10/20/2016 at 5:14 PM CDT