Game Of Thrones star Iain Glen reckons season 8 will go down ‘incredibly well’ with fans, despite potentially proving divisive.
The 57-year-old actor, who plays Ser Jorah Mormont, squashed concerns the shorter six-episode length in the final season wouldn’t be able to give characters the ending they deserve.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Iain said: ‘For viewers who have fallen in love with the show over the course of 70 plus hours, you get very strong affiliations and [are] possessive as an audience. I find that with things that transport me, you feel like it’s yours.
‘Without really thinking it through too clearly, you do have aspirations, you’ve got desires for what or may not happen. The bottom line is I’m sure we’ll not please everyone across the board, but when we gathered for reading the scripts right at the beginning, there was a huge sense the writers had done a fantastic job, and a fantastic job for the series as a whole.
‘It’s the same concoction which has always worked, full of surprises and tension. For my money, it will satiate. My hunch is it will go down incredibly well because they’re brilliant scripts.’
Asked if he was personally satisfied with Jorah’s arc, Glen said: ‘Absolutely. I was very, very satisfied.’
Filming has officially wrapped on the eighth season, with many of the cast sharing words and posts online to mark the end of a TV era.
The realisation Game Of Thrones was coming to an end was a steady process for Glen, who had a number of moments while filming where it came crashing home.
‘It filtered through at different times really,’ Glen said. ‘During the course of shooting, there was some really, really mega moments where you though, “Fuck, this is the last time that’s going to happen, that’s the last time I’ll be acting with her, and that’s the last scene with that director.”
‘So there were lots of stepping stones and weirdly, you’ve finished. There was moving farewells and then you get a call about a week later saying, “Sorry we just need to, can you come back and sit in front of the green screen?” There was a fair amount of that for a lot of us.
‘That helped with the sensation of letting go I suppose. There’s goodbye and goodbye – it doesn’t feel like a cold cut off point and it’s still very much in our lives. One would be naïve to think it won’t be for some time by association if nothing else.’
Glen added: ‘The one thing we won’t be doing anymore which I’ll miss profoundly is turning up on set and doing the work and reading the new scripts. I have mixed feelings.’
Iain Glen previously teased the possibility of romance between Daenerys and Jorah in season eight, and he didn’t exactly rule it out.
Game Of Thrones season eight is expected to land on HBO and Sky Atlantic in 2019.
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