He spoke to us just ahead of the show’s Season 6 finale and praised Episode 9, Battle of the Bastards. “And there was Max von Sydow doing that character that he did, so in a way, it’s attracting certain people who do film, and, of course, I’ve got friends like Clive Russell and Liam Cunningham and Charlie Dance is an old pal, being in it, and they had a great time in it.” And I thought, ‘Ian did that?’ and immediately I thought, ‘God, they must have paid him well’, because I know Ian!” he joked. “I just watched my friend Ian McShane and I thought, ‘Ooh, Ian’s in it’, so I settled down to watch him. I was silly, it was silly, because I’m a complete addict now. “Stupidly, I turned it down in the early days because they didn’t pay enough money,” he revealed, laughing. He described himself as a “great Game of Thrones fanatic” and a “complete addict”, adding that he regretted the decision. The actor told our own Matthew Turner about his almost-casting in HBO’s epic in an interview discussing his latest film, Forsaken (out this week). It turns out that he was, in fact, offered a part when the show was starting out – but he turned them down.
You might well wonder, then, why someone like Brian Cox – who is so easy to imagine donning furs and a sword and hopping on a horse – hasn’t been in the show.
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