Iwan Rheon teases Season 5: “I don’t want to do this”
We all know Ramsay Snow Bolton is a terrible human being who gets off on cruelty and torture. He takes the Bolton’s sigil of the flayed man just a little too seriously for most people’s tastes. (By the way, was anyone else really disturbed and saddened to see Winterfell baring the Flayed Man in the opening credit sequence on Sunday?) But even though we sat through an entire season of watching him break Theon down into nothing, taking everything from his name to his manhood, apparently that has nothing on what we’ll see this season.
Talking to ITV, actor Iwan Rheon revealed that Ramsay will go even further.
The actor confessed that there were a few scenes that he had to film in the new season that were incredibly disturbing and made him reluctant to even film them.
“There were some things in this series that I was really disturbed by. “Just before the scene I was like ‘I don’t want to do this” but it’s my job so you’ve got to get on with it.’”
That’s slightly terrifying considering what we’ve seen Ramsay do in earlier seasons, like chase down a terrified young lady with hunting dogs and torture Theon for months at a time, breaking him down by raising and then dashing his hopes, flaying him, mutilating him, and finally forcing him to pretend to be his old self in order to slaughter his fellow Iron Islanders. How much worse can Ramsay get?
As uncomfortable as some of Ramsay’s actions make Rheon, the actor still finds the character rewarding to play. “I find some of the things he does very disturbing but I find him very interesting because he’s got a lot to him, he’s not just one-dimensional,” Rheon said. “I like the fact that you’re always on edge when he’s around because he’s capable of anything and he will do it.”
There are many things I am looking forward to this season, but finding out just how far Ramsay Bolton will go in torturing his fellow human beings is definitely not one of them.
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