Julian Glover is probably one of the few actors who asked to be killed “Game of Thrones”. Glover admitted as much at the Montreal Comic Con in 2018 (Pro screen hub) And explained that his Grand Maester Pycelle bites the ball before his sixth season. An essential character in George Rr Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, on the Pycelle screen became one of the foreign background players when the HBO adaptation continued.
“I didn’t want to do (season 6) because I realized that I was completely released as a character”, Glover Ign said Before the end of the fantasy series. When he spoke of Lena Heady’s character, he recalled: “Cersei picked me up all the time and I never had a comeback. So it wasn’t fun.” The actor gave a similar statement on the pop culture convention mentioned above and reported that his character in the TV show never really went somewhere, and he was boring to play a tired, older man who spent most of the time to roast Cersei.
The man behind Maester Pycelle bored with his character
Glover is right that Pycelle became a wall flowers in the massive characters of the overcrowded series, but the Maester plays a decisive role in Martin’s version of The Story and David Benioff and DB Weiss’ ambitious, chaotic TV show. Pycelle was finally one of the men who whispered in the ear of the crazy king Aerys, which led to dismissing King’s landing. As a master of the poisons, he also stuck behind some of the greatest and merciless shifts of power in the series. However, due to his age, Pycelle was often portrayed in the TV series as an old guard towards younger schemators such as Aidan Gillans Littlefinger and Conllet Hills Lord Varys. In season 6 it was clear that it was time for Pycelle.
The experienced actor said Ign that he spoke to the show runners in front of season 6 and said: “Look, I don’t want to do that anymore, it is not interesting to continue and continue this and what will happen to him?” In response, they made him a “wonderful scene”. Glover was not the details of the scene in advance, as was typical for the cast of the show, but he loved the result. The actor called it a “damn good scene” that tells the outlet that it is exactly the way I wanted to go out. ” In the final of the sixth season of the show showPycelle is lured into what Glover calls “this terrible, cell -like, like liability -like atmosphere”, in which it is stabbed by the creepy kidspions under Qyburns (Anton Lesser) command (Anton Lesser).
Glover is proud of how his death scene developed
“The actual death scene itself was so clever,” Glover told the interviewers and noticed the “wonderful irony” that the oldest character was killed by a number of children in the show. In Martin’s “A Dance with Dragons” it is Varys who kills Pycelle to support the Lannisters, and his death scene is brutal in other ways. One of the last things his ally Kevan (Ian Gelder in the TV show) sees before he is also killed is Pycelle’s body that was the blood on a book that he read before death, and “around his candle were bone and brain pieces, islands in a lake with melted wax”. It is an unforgettable, bloody death scene in a franchise franchise full of them.
This picture is urgent and scarce, but the Glover Shot scene was more action -packed. The actor noted that it had to be shot into a setting due to the wrong blood, and he had to nail a stunt fall after the attackers of the children overwhelmed Pycelle. “And I got it in one, and then it was very satisfactory, and I was very happy to say goodbye to people at this specific moment,” he said to Ign. Glover was smart to ask for an out, even if his character should die at some point. The The last season of “Game of Thrones” was badly recordedWhile he appeared in recognized shows and films such as “Inside No. 9”, “The Crown” and Todd Fields “Tár”.
