John Bradley Defends 'Game of Thrones' Finale
justjared.comJohn Bradley is speaking out about Game of Thrones. The 33-year-old actor, who played Samwell Tarly in the show, spoke out in an interview with Variety about the series’ controversial ending. Click inside to read more… “It is highly unlikely that we were ever going to please everybody,” he said. “Chances are we were going to please a fraction of people…we almost couldn’t win.
It almost meant too much to people for them to really ever be satisfied. And who knows, when the wounds have healed a little bit in a few years time, maybe people will reevaluate it and be able to see it as a complete thing.” He also talked about people saying the showrunners “didn’t care anymore” by the time the finale happened. “If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t choose to be standing in a field in Belfast at 3 o’clock in the morning for months on end.
They wanted to make it as good as possible, and it’s a shame if people didn’t like it because we did try our best to make something very special.” He also talked about the upcoming prequel series, House of the Dragon: “There will be a certain bittersweet quality to it.
I think it’s a bit like, do you know when you move house and you go back to your old house and other people have moved in and then they’ve redecorated and they’ve changed things and they’ve made it their own and you just don’t feel involved in it… It’s going to be like seeing somebody else living in your house.” Find out how much the cast of Game of Thrones made!
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