Game Of Thrones’ Joe Dempsie has dropped a major hint at Gendry’s heritage as the show prepares to return for its final season.
And if he’s not just pulling our leg, he could totally be in line for the Iron Throne.
The actor, who plays Gendry on the TV fave, has revealed that he was as eager as anyone to find out some unanswered questions before the show bids farewell, and we might get that in a major way.
Speaking to Men’s Health Magazine, Joe, who is about to star in the new series of Deep State, revealed: ‘I was the most curious as to what we might find out about Gendry’s parentage.
‘Obviously, we know that he was the bastard of Robert Baratheon, but who might his mother have been?’
Turns out there’s a chance that we might already have an answer, and it comes down to a hair colour that could give the game away for real.
‘There’s a line in season one, and it’s the first scene you ever see of Gendry, where he’s looking to Ned [Sean Bean] and he’s asked about his mother,’ he said.
‘He says he doesn’t remember much about her at all, other than the fact that she had yellow hair and she would sing to him.’
‘It’s one of those things where you go, “Do they usually write lines that don’t mean anything, or lines that seem to have significance that [are] never addressed again?”,’ he added.
‘I was kind of intrigued to see what that might mean, and what impact that might have on Gendry’s clout politically.’
If what he’s hinting at is correct, then he could suddenly become a major player in the fight for the Iron Throne, which is currently held by potentially-but-not-officially dear old Mumzy herself, Cersei.
Which might be even more complicated seeing as he hates the Lannisters, who killed his dad Robert.
Either way, it’s going to be one hell of a family reunion…
Meanwhile, Lena Heady, who plays the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, admitted the end was emotional – and while her character may be cold as ice, she burst into tears as she wrapped her final scenes. .
Game Of Thrones returns 14 April on HBO and Sky Atlantic.
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