George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones is the biggest, most expensive and now officially the best TV show of our generation, according to your votes in our poll of the greatest TV shows of the 21st century.
Digital Spy has covered HBO’s epic series since way back in 2010. At first, the Lord of the Rings-esque fantasy swear-’em-up seemed like a risk with its very British cast, mahoosive budget and incest-laden storylines. As Nikolaj Coster-Waldau told us: “The end of episode one, when I saw that the first time I was shocked, I have to say. Having a relationship, an intimate relationship, with your own sister… it’s a mouthful.”
HBO first ordered the show back in 2008, but it took two pilots, the first of which remains unaired, and some swapped cast to get it over the line. (Alas for George RR Martin’s cameo).
The show finally emerged on April 17, 2011. The seventy-three episodes that followed added up to a total of 2 days, 22 hours, and 14 minutes of blood, battles, and bad language. Game of Thrones secured itself as one of the greatest pieces of entertainment your eyeballs can enjoy – unless you’re Prince Oberyn Martell, of course – winning a whopping 269 awards worldwide.
It’s been a year and a half since we waved Jon Snow off beyond the wall, left Bran the Broken ruling in King’s Landing and Arya Stark sailing off to the West of Westeros, so what better time to look back at the rich tapestry of the show’s legacy?
Digital Spy caught up with the cast, as well as poring over a decade of interviews from our archive, particularly by Morgan Jeffrey, Catriona Wightman, Laurence Mozafari, Alex Fletcher, Abby Robinson, and Sam Warner. (Just hit the links as you go to jump back to them.) All to tell the definitive story of the greatest show in all the seven kingdoms.
Interviewees:
- Kristian Nairn – Hodor
- Jerome Flyn – Bronn
- Gemma Whelan – Yara Greyjoy
- Richard Brake – The Night King (version 1)
- Liam Cunningham – Sir Davos Seaworth
- Nikolaj Costau Walder – Jaime Lannister
- Emilia Clarke – Daenerys Targaryen
- Kit Harington – Jon Snow
- Isaac Hempstead-Wright – Bran Stark
- Gwendoline Christie – Brienne of Tarth
- Joe Dempsie – Gendry Baratheon
- Michelle Fairley – Caitlyn Stark
- Charles Dance – Twyin Lannister
- Sophie Turner – Sansa Stark
- Mark Addy – Robert Baratheon
Back in 2009, it’s safe to say no-one knew for sure what they were getting into with this risky, though evidently big, HBO project. Gillian Anderson turned down a role – rumoured to be Cersei Lannister – while Danny Dyer tried (and failed) three times in auditions. Many eventual fan-favourites auditioned numerous times and even those eager to get on board didn’t necessarily have the smoothest journey to screen, including one ’90s pop star…
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Gwendoline Christie (Brienne): “I immediately rang my agent and said, ‘I want to do this’. My agent said, ‘What are you talking about? I’d never ever put you up for this. She’s ugly, her nose is broken, her teeth are broken and you’ll need to use a sword’.”
Kristian Nairn (Hodor): “I was a first-time actor. I was glad I didn’t know anything about the show at the time, because if I had I would’ve realised what a huge audition I was going for. I had no idea what Game of Thrones was. I had auditioned for a part in another movie called Hot Fuzz, and I didn’t get the part. It was the casting director Nina Gold who remembered me – she called me in for this audition. I didn’t know it at the time, but when you’re called for an audition, that’s really in your favour.”
Richard Brake (The Night King, seasons four and five): “I had auditioned a couple of times before for the show in other roles. I got pretty close at one point. But I’m so grateful I didn’t get it… [that character] was nowhere near as important as I had thought when I auditioned. He did an episode or two and then died.
“A few months later my agent called me and said, ‘They want to see you. Nina wants to see you again for Game of Thrones, but this time the character is in full prosthetics, he doesn’t speak, and he’s only going to be on screen for about a minute.”
“I thought, ‘What the f**k? [laughs] This is what it’s come to?’ ‘But he’ll be important at some point,’ she said. So I went in. They had me pretend to pick up a sword. I had to pretend to pick up a baby… and touch it. That was about it. But I had no idea that he was the king of the White Walkers, or that he would be eventually called the Night King.”
Jerome Flynn (Bronn): “I hadn’t been on screen for about 10 years, I was thinking I might leave the business behind, but I’d also poured all my savings into renovating an old farm estate in Wales. My agent called – there’s this thing called Game of Thrones, American, medieval, I was like, ‘Oh god really, that sounds dodgy’. And I had a lot of resistance going down to London to audition.
“I opened up a kitchen cabinet onto my eye and gave myself a kind of black eye. I didn’t look at the script, but I put my hair back and I suddenly felt like ‘Oh, I could be a badass’. They just saw the face and they saw that and thought, ‘Ooh yeah, he’s a bit of a killer’. I think it helped also because Dan [Weiss] and Dave [Benioff] said they had no idea about my past, about Robson and Jerome or Soldier Soldier.
“Somebody sent me some blog when I got cast, from English fans of the books… and then when they found I got cast, some were desperately upset, one guy couldn’t believe that Bronn could be played by me. And one guy actually said, ‘This is the worst day of my life’… they just couldn’t put those two, Bronn and Jerome, together.”
Liam Cunningham (Davos): “I’m a big fan. I got the DVDs and I said to myself, ‘I’ll give me several weeks to finish this’, and I did the stupid thing where I watched 6 in one day. I just fell in love with the quality of the thing. This sad world with grown-up characters and fantastic acting and jaw-dropping moments of drama.”
Joe Dempsie (Gendry): “When they were originally casting for the pilot… I actually auditioned for the role of Jon Snow. I didn’t get very far and then when the series was commissioned, I auditioned for another two roles, before eventually being cast as Gendry. It just seemed like the creators had identified people that they wanted to work with, and then it was just a case of which piece of the jigsaw you fitted.”
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As soon as they walked on set, everyone could see how much of a gamble HBO was taking on this massive show. But before it aired, it was still very much an unknown quantity.
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Kristian Nairn: “There was a huge sense of anticipation. No-one really knew how the show would be received, but one thing that was clear was how much effort HBO was putting into it. When you walk onto these sets, the sort of level of detail they have gone to, all the research they had done, you just knew this was going to be something special.
“People were working so hard. As I said it was my first acting job, but I would see other actors saying, ‘Oh my God, I haven’t seen anything like this, this is going to be something different’.”
Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran): “It’s been a pretty great place to grow up. I mean, the advice, and the people, and the wealth of experienced, interesting, clever people that I’ve had access to as a teenager growing up.”
Because of the multiple international sets and sprawling cast, many cast members actually didn’t meet for some time.
Kristian Nairn: “There was one mass influx at the start – we filmed the Lannisters arriving in Winterfell. That for many years was the biggest on-screen gathering of the cast. There were people there who didn’t survive for very much longer, and there were people there who you would never meet again.
“I got to meet everybody over the years at fan events, conventions and table reads. We were filming in so many different locations, it took a long time. I only met Charles Dance for the first time I think about two years ago.”
The show was an instant hit. But what was it about this oddball magical saga that people responded to?
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Liam Cunningham: “It regards itself as intelligent and it rewards commitment to the show. David and Daniel [showrunners] met in Dublin, they were both doing masters in Irish literature when they met in Trinity College. These guys are not philistines; they treat their audience the complete opposite of a lot of television shows. They don’t patronise, they’re not shovelling out lowest common denominator, keep-your-retina busy stuff. It’s an incredible show for an intelligent audience and it rewards that.”
Charles Dance (Tywin): “The writing is really, really good. The production values are phenomenal. It’s a very classy piece of work.”
Michelle Fairley (Catelyn): “I think it’s the humane satires, it’s intrigue, it’s deception, it’s honour. I think if you take away the setting it’s stuff that everybody deals with in their life. It’s about family, it’s about honour, trust, it’s about betrayal.”
Liam Cunningham: “A lot of people have gone, ‘I’m not into fantasy’ – it’s not about that. There are extraordinary characters in extreme situations with their lives, their loves, their hate, their betrayals, their jealousies and set against this backdrop of fantasy.”
Emilia Clarke (Daenerys): “You can take the magic away and it stands alone as a compelling drama with complex characters. And it’s got themes running through it that people can relate to. Family and jealousy and rivalry… but then you put the magic on top of it and it makes it something even more special.”
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From the Red Wedding to the Battle of the Bastards, every fan has their favourite moment. And the cast are no different, whether it’s on screen or something hilarious behind the camera.
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Jerome Flynn: “When I reunite with Pod, and Jaime is in the tent with Brienne… I had this line come up, ‘You’re the one with the magic cock’ because I’m trying to get him to… tell me about whether he thinks Jamie and Brienne are at it.
“I just kind of instinctively grabbed him by the crotch and squeezed quite hard and the look on his face, he was just keeping it together, and that’s the one they used. Because he’s my mate I kind of knew I could get away with – we still laugh about it every time we see each other and the fact it’s on celluloid, and you can see him trying not to laugh.”
Joe Dempsie: “There was a girl from Denmark, she sent a video… it was just her talking to her webcam saying that she thought I looked very nice and would I like to go on a date with her? I thought, that’s quite funny. I didn’t really know how to respond to it.
“She discovered that I had Twitter and sent it to everyone I had ever interacted with on Twitter, which did include my ex-girlfriend’s mum. I’m from Nottingham and she sent it to the local newspaper, who ran a story about this Danish girl trying to get a date with me.
“Video two arrived. It starts on her with a piano, she’s looking straight into the camera. She goes, ‘Come on Joe, don’t be scared. It’s all love’. And I’m thinking, Jesus Christ. She starts singing a song about me and as she gets into the first verse, this chorus of male backing singers arises from beneath the camera singing my name.
“Video three was a real feat of editing…. She was cutting between all of them going – ‘Dear’, ‘Joe’, ‘Dempsie’ all in different outfits.
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“A few of the guys on Game of Thrones started to get wind – Oona Chaplin and Finn Jones thought she was the best thing since sliced bread and started tweeting her back going, ‘Do more videos, you’re brilliant.’
“We were having a Sunday lunch around one of our mates’ houses, after a few beers Finn was like, ‘You’ve got to send her something back’. So we sort of freeze-framed the video of her face and then sent her a picture of me kissing her face. She flailed for a bit and then that was it.”
Meanwhile OG Night King Richard Brake gave the cast quite a shock, as they didn’t recognise him without all that make-up.
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Richard Brake: “I was covered in prosthetics – massive fingernails; false teeth; literally the biggest contacts you could put in a human eye – they were agonising. So obviously the last thing I really felt like doing was sitting around and having chitchats between takes. I would just stay very quiet.
“On one of the first nights we were shooting ‘Hardhome’, everyone was gathering in Belfast to eat, all the actors. I showed up a little late, of course, because it takes two hours to get the make-up off. And then I sat down, and, of course, Kit and everybody went, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ They thought I was a homeless man on the street that just popped in to have a free meal. I said, ‘No, no. I’m the Night King. I was the guy who was chasing you off the pier all day’.”
For Harington it was a visit from the actual Queen, perhaps the only person who didn’t make a play for the Throne…
Kit Harington (Jon): “I think it’s in her royal contract that she’s not allowed to sit on any other thrones, fictional or real. So I don’t think she was allowed to, even if she wanted.”
Isaac Hempstead-Wright: “There was a scene in the pilot where Bran and Tommen had a little sword fight and they put us in these absolutely ridiculous big sumo outfits and we were trying to have this non-choreographed sword battle. It was hysterical. Still haven’t seen any footage of it.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime): “I sent them an old picture where I had a buzz cut. I sent a long letter where I explained I’d taken control of my character and I want to be respected. I said that my integrity as an artist was at stake!
“I was in the car from the airport. The first AD said, ‘Do you have any hair?’ Then he explained how poor Kevin – who is the head of Hair – had been frantically trying to build a wig with what he had, which wasn’t a lot.
“I said, ‘It’s just a joke! Did you really believe it?’ They all believed it. They’d also called my manager. HBO had started to talk about suing me and it had gotten out of control.”
For some cast members, the impact was instant – for others, the magnitude arrived like an undead army slowly marching across an arctic tundra for several years.
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Gemma Whelan (Yara): “These things happen in increments and then suddenly, it’s a thing. It’s not like you’re an overnight sensation. Maybe some of the people on the show were, but it was a slow burn in terms of everyone would go to work, do the show, then there would be five or six months of post-production.
“I’m very, very proud of it and I’m really aware that I was part of a huge, huge show. We all realised quite early on we were in something special and we all held that with great respect.”
Richard Brake: “I was in Bulgaria, shooting a movie. In the middle of the night, my phone just exploded. You know, just text after text. I thought, ‘What the hell?’ It was like somebody had died or something.
“I then realised that this show had aired in the US, and all my friends and family were texting me about how blown away they were. And then it hit me. At that point, I was like, ‘This is a huge thing’.”
Kristian Nairn: “It didn’t happen overnight, and I think for us that was a good thing. I mean it was always immensely popular, I just think as the seasons went on it moved from a really amazing TV show into a kind of phenomenon. It sort of turned into that thing that everyone talks about, people say over the watercooler at work.
“It’s crazy, because every TV show you watch these days, every single TV show or movie, they all reference Game of Thrones. It always blows me away. I watch a show I love and there’s a reference to Hodor, there’s a reference to Khaleesi. It’s become such a huge part of the public psyche. I don’t think we ever dreamed before season one was out that that would happen. It still happens!
“It kind of grew, it really doubled per season. But we grew into it, which made it kind of easy. The cast was really down to Earth. I can say hand on heart we’re all really down to Earth. I think that’s a really nice thing. Just the whole Hollywood thing, we’re all kind of aware of that… Game of Thrones is so brutal and real. It’s important to keep it real.”
Jerome Flynn: “A lot [of] kids started on that show, some hadn’t acted before and over those years became huge household names going into their teens… The cast all supported each other. It’s quite a thing for them to grow up in that show and to have that amount of stardom thrown at them at a global scale at such a young age.”
Isaac Hempstead-Wright: “It was actually a little bit intimidating. I remember seeing the show go interstellar. Especially when you’re separate from it a bit [Bran was off screen during season five], you really just see how huge it is when you’re not in the midst of the whole thing.
“I really think season five was when it had its meteoric rise. So coming back into season six – and I hadn’t acted for a year; I’d been doing my GCSEs – coming back in was kind of like, ‘Argh! I’ve forgotten how to act!’
“I think also there had been a lot of bonds forged in that season, and a lot of people had grown up. I’d kind of grown up, but I had that key year of being 15, 16 away from it. So it was a weird one to come back to. But after a couple of days, it was business as usual.”
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As the show got bigger, everything got crazier. Sophie Turner told us in the final season visitors had stickers on their phones to prevent pictures, the cast were given code names on call sheets and the show itself was dubbed ‘Face of Angels’.
Richard Brake: “‘Hardhome’ was massive in terms of its budget and in terms of the amount of time we had to shoot it. The amount of time it took to shoot those 20 minutes of the battle scene at Hardhome was equivalent to almost the amount of time I’ve had to shoot entire films.”
Sophie Turner (Sansa): “We wouldn’t get physical [scripts]. We would have it on an app. We would get sent sides for the scene [we were shooting] the next day. So we would have to learn it all the day before. And once you’ve read it, it disappears 24 hours later, and you can never access it again. It was tighter than the White House security!”
As well as its powerful drama and intricate storytelling, Thrones was celebrated (and sometimes criticised) for its frank approach to sex. The cast had many thoughts about what they had to do for art.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: “You start out in the extreme, after episode one where [Jaime] has sex with his twin sister and he tries to kill this innocent, sweet-looking boy. It questions your moral beliefs, that’s for sure.”
Emilia Clarke: “I didn’t watch the first couple of episodes with my parents, my dad in particular.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: “A friend of mine sent me a link to this website, about concerned parents, it was more or less a hate letter to me. ‘He will always be known as that actor. Incestuous’. It was very hateful. So that was a great thing to click on.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: “There are so many people that get really passionate about this. ‘There’s too much sex! There’s too much violence! They killed a dog! Ahh!’ It’s just amazing, because it’s just fiction and we’re very serious about it.
“You might not like [it], but it is what it is. David Benioff and Dan Weiss, it’s the way that they chose to tell their story. And it’s in the books, it’s the source materials. It’s the way he [George RR Martin] wanted to describe this world.
“Yes, there’s a lot of sex, but I don’t think you find any of the sex scenes if you look at them, that don’t also tell a story about the characters.”
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Alfie Allen (Theon): “There was one time where I was with my mum and accidentally watched it. Ros (Esmé Bianco) was involved in a really graphic lesbian sex scene and my mum was just so shocked. That was pretty funny. We don’t watch it together anymore though, that’s for sure.”
Michelle Fairley: “I got a no-nudity clause so I always get to keep my clothes on… The producers put it in, not me!”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Do we really need to see that Hodor has a huge dick? I don’t know. But that’s the choice.”
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There were quite a few battles off-screen for the show; from Jon Snow’s ‘death’, to those celebrity cameos, and that short final season. But it was the show’s heavy use of sexual violence – particularly against Daenerys Targaryen, which George RR Martin has criticised, and Sansa Stark – which really challenged viewers, and the cast even more.
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Liam Cunningham: “They’re challenging the audience with this stuff. Some of the violence in it is jaw-dropping, some of the sex is extraordinary. You couldn’t do it on a network. It reflects the spirit of the books. George is a fantastic writer. And Peter Dinklage is one of the finest actors. But to have a show where basically the lead character is a dwarf, you’ve got incest, you’ve got all sorts of stuff in it. Imagine pitching this to various networks. You’d be on your own in the room pitching it after about two minutes.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: “I think usually as an actor you… build on your own experience. This particular aspect of his character was different. Having a relationship, an intimate relationship, with your own sister… it’s a mouthful. But what is interesting and I think what you can relate to is that you fall in love with someone you shouldn’t fall in love with, or someone it would be really inappropriate but you can’t help yourself.
“Of course, also it is a different world. If you go back a couple of hundred years, the whole idea that royal families would marry cousins – it’s not that far [away].”
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Mark Addy (Robert):“I think all of the scenes serve an important function, whether it’s showing you how a character is changing from being a girl to being a woman. Whether it’s showing you how a character is changing from being a submissive person to someone who is more prepared to kind of take control of her own destiny.”
Sophie Turner:“I very much remember the first couple of seasons, people really loathed [Sansa]. They really hated her. They found her quite stuck up and a really frustrating character. Then they started feeling sorry for her, because it seemed like the next few seasons were her being beaten and bruised and raped and married – forced marriages – and all of these horrific things happened to her.
“Slowly, people started to feel sympathy, but it took a while. A lot of people, for a while, were saying that she deserved it. It’s interesting, because it really wouldn’t have made Sansa the Sansa she is today had she not gone through those things, and had been subjected to so much torture and trauma. It made her the strong, passionate woman that she is. Now, she has a lot of followers, a lot of fans.”
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The final episodes and culmination of season eight were as divisive as they were lavish – 55% of Digital Spy’s readers said they were disappointed with the finale at the time. A year on, it’s been voted the greatest TV show of the 21st century. Just like the audience, the cast came to their own conclusions about how Game of Thrones finished.
Gemma Whelan: “I respect and like the fact that it came to an end as and when it did because things can’t go on forever and for me, a very good ending and a place where the showrunners always wanted to end the show.”
Sophie Turner: “I was satisfied with how unpredictable the show’s ending really is. It really is so unpredictable the way that it ends up. I’m very satisfied with that.”
Isaac Hempstead-Wright: “When we got the scripts. I can remember, I was at university in Birmingham, I was reading the scripts in my student halls, and I had to double-lock the door, I was reading through them and then… I think it was episode six, I had to actually pace around the room a little bit, and go, ‘F**k!’.”
Richard Brake: “I really thought they did a great job with the ending. I particularly liked the way they ended my character. I thought having Arya kill the Night King was just genius. Her character, and the way they developed her from a little girl who watched her father murdered, to the greatest assassin in the world who saves the world, was just genius storytelling.”
“I kind of sensed before the season began that there would always be a group of people who would be disappointed, because no-one likes things to end. So it wasn’t surprising there was a bit of a backlash. What I found going to Comic-Cons… almost unanimously, everybody’s loved the ending. Some people wished it was longer. They may have wished for a certain person to have not died, or died. But everybody’s loved it. The backlash is often a small amount of voices making a whole lot of noise.”
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Now that it’s over, has everyone stayed in touch, their friendships forged in the fire of Drogon’s breath?
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Kristian Nairn: “Not as much as I would like to because I’m always travelling and everyone else is always working too. But I still hear from Isaac [Hempstead-Wright] a fair bit. There’s sort of a handful that I was closer with. But yeah we always do stay in touch and it’s really nice.”
Jerome Flynn: “Not all of them, but as with any job you tune in with certain people and make friends with certain people, there’s not a cast WhatsApp – that would be quite a big one – but for sure I’ve made some lovely friends on it.”
Isaac Hempstead-Wright: “The day we wrapped was a real moment. I mean, we were all in floods of tears and I didn’t think that I would do that. I thought I would hold it together. It was a beautiful day. I remember walking back from set, actually, rather than getting in the car, because I just wanted to enjoy the sunset. It sounds so cheesy! But I just wanted to enjoy that moment at the end of it.”
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Sophie Turner: “It’s like a divorce, or a death in the family, leaving Sansa behind, and leaving people behind. I think the divorce from the character is the hardest thing for me, because my adolescence has just been ‘Sophie and Sansa’. Sometimes, you get both worlds mixed up. So leaving Sansa behind is like leaving a big part of my growing up behind.”
Jerome Flynn: “There was a sense of everybody really being aware and valuing the time we had left together after sharing such an extraordinary nine years together, to be part of something that had been a phenomena. And the fact it was all coming to an end it had a deeper sense of poignancy and celebration if you like.”
Sophie Turner: “When I wrapped in Belfast with the crew that we worked with so often, it was in the Winterfell courtyard. I wasn’t even shooting there, but the director, David Nutter, called me into the courtyard, because he knew it was my last day on set. He said to the whole crew, ‘Sansa Stark is leaving Winterfell for the last time’. As you can imagine, I bawled my eyes out.”
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It’s only been a year and a half since Thrones finished, but as our poll suggests, it will be with us for a long, long time to come, its status as the greatest show of our lifetimes seemingly unassailable.
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Gemma Whelan:“I feel really proud that I was part of it. Really fortunate and privileged to have been part of the show. I look back on it with enormous fond memories. I learned a lot. I met some of my best friends for life and it would be so silly to complain about any part of it.
“We just had such a great time and if you’re on the Antrim Coast freezing cold, covered in icy seawater, it was still enormous fun. A job like that doesn’t really come along very often and I think the obvious answer is the correct answer, and the cliched answer is I’m very lucky and I look back with great fondness.”
Kristian Nairn: “I think it’s going to follow a Star Wars/Star Trek category, in the sort of cult annals of TV history. Hopefully it will be spoken about in years to come, especially with the sequel. It will keep it in peoples’ heads. I think it will go down in history as really a game-changer in TV and movies. It really has changed how we watch TV shows and what we expect to happen.”
Jerome Flynn: “I’m sure it will be remembered as [a show of] the highest quality and the global viewing figures testify to that.”
Richard Brake: “I really think it’ll be remembered as something very, very special, in terms of really important storytelling. I think it really is a very, very special show. Unlike so many other things, it’s just incredibly special. I think it’ll always go down as one of the greatest shows in history.”
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