I knew that his demise was coming at some point but I didn’t know what it was until somebody in the street told me, actually. So you must have thought it a fitting end for Tywin, sitting on his other throne - the loo?Īn ignominious death, yes (laughs). I wasn’t about to try to find any, I didn’t need to. A while ago, I did a television adaptation of Bleak House and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. When playing a villain, do you as an actor need to have a justification for his bad behaviour?Ībsolutely not. Peter Dinklage’s character Tyrion Lannister got a raw deal when it came to this tyrannical father. But you can’t take someone like Tywin Lannister too seriously as an actor I was always laughing at how horrendously he behaved. Some of the things I said to him were horrendous. But I did spend a lot of time apologising to little Peter Dinklage, who I adore, because I treated him like s- all the time. And Tywin was a great character to play because although the thing is set in this mythical land, it’s nevertheless based on a medieval, feudal society where you did what you had to do to maintain your position in that society - and that’s what Tywin Lannister did. It looks sensational, there are some breathtaking sequences.
Well, that series has become the global phenomenon that it is, one, because of the quality of the writing, and two, because HBO spend money on it so standards are maintained. What did you enjoy about playing Tywin Lannister? Your time on Game of Thrones has come to an end. Charles Dance, with Meryl Streep in the 1985 film Plenty, says he never aspired to be a romantic leading man as he had “a peculiar face”. Although having said that, I’m going to Greece next week purely because I haven’t had a lying around in the sun holiday for a very long time.ĭoes your new film Dracula Untold mark the first vampire you’ve ever played?ĭevilishly handsome. It’s one of the reasons I very rarely take a holiday because I’m lucky enough in this business to invariably go off to somewhere I’ve never been before. If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I’ve been in the world, there’d be a lot of little flags. Well no, but in 40 years or so of doing it I’ve seen more of the world than my brother who was in the navy for 25-30 years. Was seeing the world part of the dream when you first got into acting? I love Australia, I just wish it wasn’t 12,000 miles away from anywhere else (laughs). Then a few years before that I did the Sydney Theatre Festival - Ralph Fiennes and I both did one-man shows. You were in Melbourne not so long ago making the horror film Patrick. GoT SEASON 5 PREVIEW: Now Sansa is playing Littlefinger It felt as if it was going to be terrific, so let’s hope it will be. But it’s a bloody good story and a very ambitious project. While we were of course pretending we were suffering in the heat of Turkey, it was winter in Adelaide. You were over here a couple of months ago shooting the Foxtel drama Deadline Gallipoli. GAMES of Thrones actor Charles Dance reveals he’s got a thing for Khaleesi and reckons his character Tywin Lannister deserved to die on the loo.