Jack Gleeson, best known for playing Joffrey Bartheon in Game of Thrones speaks at the Oxford Union.
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QUESTIONS:
0:25 – 1) What do you think King Joffery would make of the principal of free speech at The Oxford Union?
1:08 – 2) Why do you want to retire from acting and what plans do you have for the future?
3:00 – 3) Whats it like to act out a one-dimensional, consitantly evil character?
3:57 – 4) What’s the most difficult scene to act out in the series so far?
4:35 – 5) A lot of actors use past experiences to act out scenes, have you ever had a past experience shooting prostitutes before?
5:15 – 6) You get slapped a lot of times in the series, are they real slaps?
5:50 – 7) Have you ever encountered any hardcore fans being hostile towards you?
6:15 – 8) Has the character of Joffery seeped into your everyday life?
6:38 – 9) If you had to relate your personality to a real life Game of Thrones character, who do you thik it’d be?
7:27 – 10) What’s your favourite moment in the series so far?
8:20 – 11) What was your reaction to the Red Wedding episode?
9:00 – 12) What can we expect from season 4?
9:40 – 13) In the cast of Game of Thrones who would you say you look up to the most?
10:33 – 14) Are there any actors or actresses you would have liked to have spent more time with?
11:15 – 15) Who would you say is your best friend on set?
11:50 – 16) Who is the king of banter on set?
12:19 – 17) Have there been any funny moments or pranks on set?
13:38 – 18) If you could behead a character who would it be?
14:13 – 19) Snog? Marry? Avoid?… Daenerys? Majorie? Ergret?
14:50 – 20) Snog? Marry? Avoid?… Rob Stark? John Snow? Jamie Lannister?
Filmed on Wednesday 27th November 2013
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ABOUT JACK GLEESON:
Jack Gleeson (born 20 May 1992) is an Irish actor, best known for his portrayal of Joffrey Baratheon in the HBO television series Game of Thrones.
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When I look at his face, I get the impression that he can go out of control any second. Not because he played the Joffrey role, but just look at him, he's not normal.
HE LOOKS SO ANNOYING, THAT I AM SURPRISED THAT NOBODY DIDN'T KILL THIS LITTLE PRICK YET!!
*constistent
"I WANT THESE PEOPLE EXECUTED!!!"
He's really adorable. He started off nervous, enough that he had things written down. But after that he did a great job just being himself. Hate to hear he wants to quit acting.
Look at the girl on the right in the audience. She's like "Who the fk is Charles Mance?!" 10:03
I hope in the future, if Jack becomes an academic or a teacher and he makes a speech, I can listen to intelligent questions about his academic work and a discussion that isn't about a character he played in a TV show.
I wanted to hear questions about his speech. This is disappointing.
Who proposed these questions? Embarrassing to ask these after his speech.
says acting has become stale to him lol, only giving it up for now until he thinks people forget that he was joffrey …
can't fucking believe the interviewer had the AUDACITY to ask him snog marry avoid questions! This is meant to be Oxford Union! Not TMZ!
His intelligence at 21 is astonishing. These questions may not have matched his the loft of Jake's speech, but they were a bit of fun for his likely demo.
How can an audience comprised largely of Oxford University students be so fucking moronic?
Jack gave a heartfelt, eloquent and thought provoking speech about the superficial nature of celebrity culture and the asinine obsession people have with it, and their response is "Yeah but who smells the most in Game of Thrones lol"
Halfwit interviewer. Who said Oxford is full of geniuses?
*Joffrey Lannister
Gave great speech about celebrity and all the negative aspects about it… Gets questions not related to the scholarly view of jack gleeson…
During Jack's (awesome and insightful) speech, the interviewer on the left didn't make a single note. And then during this (awfully questioned) Q&A session, the interviewer proceeds to read off a list of previously prepared questions that had virtually nothing to do with what Jack previously discussed. Terrible effort by the interviewer –
which is a real shame, because what Jack spoke about was fascinating.
Such stupid behavior from the Oxford Union and the interviewer. He spoke for such length about an intense topic and the interviewer asks him such stupid questions about the show. I mean I was expecting him or the audience to ask him about his speech and discuss further about it but instead we got to see is comic con qna. What stupidity.
He should of just lead with his favorite sock color.
2:17 "did you think the show would be this popular?" <– is anyone else getting sick of interviewers asking ANYONE this question?! It seems like such a throw away question.
I feel so sorry for Jack.
What a fucking muppet interviewer and an absolute pleb crowd.
He kinda look like Barney Stinson
What a wasted opportunity to actually ask questions related to his speech. This is Oxford Union, not Comic-con. What a shame. Utterly a cringeworthy fail.
Jack must have been so disappointed in Oxford Union.
He thought them worthy of discussing the complex subject of celebrity worship on an intellectual level, and their response was the same questions that every celebrity interview.
great fucking host!!