The Game of Thrones cast interviews are piling up with ONE DAY (!) left to the premiere so let’s cut the small talk and get right to it!
First up:
Peter Dinklage talks to Entertainment Weekly in a great new article about Tyrion’s motives in season 5, and whether he thinks Tyrion will ever wind up on the Iron Throne. (Check out the whole interview at EW.) He also names his all-time favorite scene and it’s something of a surprising choice- the much-debated Orson Lannister beetle-smashing scene from “The Mountain and the Viper.” Peter’s thoughts on it:
I loved the scene with [Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in season 4] when we’re talking about our cousin. There’s so much in the show that’s necessary to push the story forward because everybody is just trying to stay alive. And so many of those scenes last year in the cell really defined all these different relationships in Tyrion’s life. I loved the lines about their cousin, who’s a bit thick and smashing the beetles. Because it was about something from their past. It’s like Tyrion’s in shock, or something. He doesn’t know why he’s telling that story and he just wants to know what it was about, and what life is about, and it had such an abstract non-f–king King’s Landing feel to it. It was such a fresh breath. I loved that monologue. Whether I serviced it or not is a matter of opinion.
